Ronald G. Ross

Ronald G. Ross is one of the world's foremost authorities on policy interpretation, rules, concept models, business vocabulary, and data design. He is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS). At BRS, he has consulted to many hundreds of companies and government bodies around the globe. Ron is the author of 10 professional books, including Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business, 2nd ed. (2020). He is known as the ‘father’ of business rules. Ron is Chair of Building Business Capabilities (BBC), the official conference of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®). He was a founder and principal in standards work at OMG on SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules). Ron has keynoted dozens of conferences and given seminars to many thousands of people worldwide. He is currently Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. From 1977-1998 he was editor of the landmark Data Base Newsletter. Ron holds an M.S. in information science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Rice University.