About the Authors

Iver Band, Genesis Financial Solutions, Iver is VP of Architecture at Genesis Financial Solutions, and a former Chair and Vice-Chair of the ArchiMate Forum. He led development of several White Papers published by The Open Group, and contributed to the second and third major versions of the ArchiMate Specification. He holds the TOGAF 9 Certified and ArchiMate 3 Practitioner certifications from The Open Group. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Professional, an AHIP Information Technology Professional, and a Prosci Certified Change Consultant.

Marija Bjeković works at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in Luxembourg. Her areas of interest include enterprise modeling, Enterprise Architecture, conceptual modeling, information systems design, and model-driven engineering. She is currently working on a PhD project which studies fundamental aspects of modeling, and the role and use of enterprise modeling languages. Her educational background combines information systems and organization sciences. She obtained her IS engineer diploma in 2003 at the Faculty of Organization Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, and her MSc in Management and Technology of Information Systems in 2005 at the common program of the University of Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Annecy, France. She worked as a software engineer in Serbia, and research engineer in LIST, prior to embarking on a PhD project.

Steve Else is the CEO of EA Principals, a Gold Member of The Open Group. Steve is certified in the TOGAF, ArchiMate, Open FAIR, and IT4IT certification programs. A former Air Force pilot with a rating to fly the Boeing 717 and Lear Jet commercially, Steve became an Architect over 20 years ago while helping direct the US Air Force Business Transformation initiative. He has been Chief Architect at numerous organizations, done consulting at uniquely challenging organizations, such as the United Nations and Fannie Mae, and taught EA to thousands of students over 10 years. He has also written two books on the TOGAF framework, along with one on Organization Theory and the Transformation of Large, Complex Organizations.

Rob Kroese is Product Manager at Bizzdesign and in that role responsible for guiding the development process of the Horizzon platform. He started his career at Bizzdesign in 2007 as Consultant and was involved in a lot of customer projects in different countries and industries. These projects were not only related to implementing the Bizzdesign software, but also guide and train people in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, IT architecture and requirements management. In 2021 he switched to his current Product Manager role. Rob studied Business & IT at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. In 2004 he was awarded his BSc degree, and in 2007 he finished his studies and got his MSc degree.

Marc Lankhorst is Managing Consultant and Chief Technology Evangelist at Bizzdesign. He is responsible for market development, consulting, and coaching on digital business design and Enterprise Architecture, and spreading the word on the ArchiMate modeling language for EA. His expertise and interests range from Enterprise Architecture and business process management to agile methods, portfolio management, and digital business design. Previously, Marc was a Senior Member of Scientific Staff at Novay (formerly Telematica Instituut), where he managed the collaborative R&D project that developed the initial version of the ArchiMate language. He leads the core team of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum that has defined the new version of the standard.