EII's Founders

Thomas Gulledge

Thomas Gulledge is the President of Enterprise Integration, Inc. and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Engineering at George Mason University. For over 30 years he has worked on the management and technical aspects of Enterprise Integration. Through his university research laboratory, he managed an extensive research program in Extended Enterprise Integration, with a special emphasis on Back-Office Integration, Product Lifecycle Management, and Supply Chain Integration & Management. Through Enterprise Integration, Inc., he has transferred many of these research concepts into reality with many projects in the USA, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. He is the developer of the Architecture-driven Enterprise Integration methodology, and he has published extensively on that subject.

Rainer Sommer

Rainer Sommer is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Enterprise Engineering at George Mason University. While employed at GMU he has authored and co-authored numerous articles on Enterprise Engineering, Business Process Change, Electronic Commerce, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Prof. Sommer has held several research and teaching positions in the fields of Supply Chain Integration, International Telecommunication, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.