And now for some bio info. The current Consultants are:
Whynde Kuehn – Whynde is passionate about bridging the gap between strategy and execution. She founded S2E Transformation, an established consulting practice which helps clients achieve their greatest visions for business and digital transformation in a practical and business-focused way. She has extensive experience in enterprise transformation and planning, and was a key player in one of the largest business transformations in the world. She also led one of the largest business transformation and architecture consulting practices prior to S2E.
She has a strong track record of building successful strategic business architecture teams around the world:
- She speaks, writes and chairs events globally, with a mission to advance best practices and facilitate community.
- She is the author of StraightTalk, a professional business architecture blog winning worldwide acclaim as well as the book Strategy to Reality, released in September 2022.
- She is the creator of Biz Arch Mastery, a dedicated online platform and community that helps simplify business architecture and facilitate its practical usage through extensive resources and hands-on programs.
- She is the Co-Founder, Vice President, and Academic Committee Chair of the Business Architecture Guild.
- She is the Co-Founder at BAA, Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium and was selected as an Institute Fellow by the Institute for Digital Transformation.
Whynde is passionate about applying business practices and technology to enable non-profits, social enterprises and cross-sector social initiatives. With a focus on Africa and emerging nations, she has spent years on the ground helping organizations move big ideas into action and create systemic change.
Oliver Cronk – Oliver is a creative and personable CTO / Chief Architect level leader, advisor and speaker. He is a Business-to-Tech translator with experience across several industries and in different hands-on and tech leadership roles. This has given him a broad view on the world of business, science (including energy and environment), innovation and technology.
Oliver is the leader and moderator for the Architect Tomorrow knowledge sharing community – check out the content on YT here: https://youtube.com/ArchitectTomorrow/
He is a strong communicator, director-level consultant and public speaker on emerging tech, sustainability, cloud, Architecture, Cybersecurity, API Strategy & Security, DevSecOps, GRC & IT Ops.
His broad experience with different business and architecture domains / technology platforms balances the vision of strategic work with what is practical and achievable.
He has a thirst for knowledge and adventure (usually on a bicycle – he’s cycled from Lands End to John o Groats twice!). And he shares / writes about a range of environmental, business technology and innovation/disruption related topics.
Phil Yanov – Phil is a technologist with personality. He is a natural born connector and has built a career out of helping others understand how they can best leverage technology at work and at play.
He is the Founder of the GSA Technology Council & Tech After Five
Thirty thousand people receive his weekly emails
He holds live events in Greenville, Columbia, Charleston & Charlotte every month. Attendance at the events average between 75 & 150 people
The GSATC turned 20 years old in September 2022
Tech After Five has hosted over 500 live events.
He is a sought after voice in matters of personal technology, information security & personal networking.
Former co-host of Your Day radio show heard on all NPR stations in SC
Former columnist for Greenville Business Magazine
Contributor to numerous stories on WYFF-TV, WSPA-TV, & others
Repeat guest on a variety of talk radio shows
Video contributor to FETE Greenville
He has been a public presenter, host and emcee for:
- South Carolina CIO and Executive IT Forum
- Innoventure
- Innomobility
- TedxGreenville
- GSA Technology Council
Named among Greenville’s 50 Most Influential
Chris Lockhart – Chris has more than 20 years of experience defining, planning, executing and communicating broad end-to-end solutions.
His work ranges from business and technical capability assessment and strategic alignment thorough implementation and integration of complex technical systems. His experience includes a particular focus on identification and analysis of business problems followed by definition of solution sets that leverage cloud capabilities, service-oriented architectures (SOA), social networking, mobile computing, web portals, integration services, data services, and complex event processing.
He is an enterprise architect with extensive experience in the definition and delivery of CTO & CIO advisory services both from an external consulting perspective and within Industry. He has broad experience working across organizational boundaries to respond to strategic needs by developing, architecting and implementing capability-based technology solutions to address business problems.
Chris is the author of The People Problem: A Primer on Architecting the Enterprise as an Enterprise Architect and publishes his blog at ChrisOnEA
Co-hosts from prior seasons of the podcast include:
Bill Bensing – Bill’s GitHub, Pluralsight, book list, and YouTube history demonstrates his deep affair with technology. Throughout his career, Bill has found every way possible to solve people’s problems through software. He spends his free time on the beaches of Florida imagining, engineering, and architecting everything from starter projects to pipe dreams. Bill sees business as the mechanism for building a better world. At his eulogy, Bill would like people to remember him for the platforms he built which made their lives better.
Shashi Shrimali – Results oriented business technology leader with a proven track record of building executable strategies and selling & leading large scale strategy and transformation initiatives for more than 14 years. Extensive experience in consultative selling, acquiring & retaining customers, establishing shared services organization and defining products & services strategy for clients in various industries with primary focus on Healthcare sector.
