Panel Discussion With Higher Education Industry Experts on Digital Transformation

George Kopf has been with Princeton University for just over three years and in
that time he has spearheaded the push for DevOps processes, infrastructure as
code and the WSO2 API platform. He received a degree in Information Systems
Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a
Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, College
Park (UMCP). His 30+ years in the IT industry include Silicon Valley start-ups,
multi-national organizations, small privately held companies and consulting
services. His IT experience spans non-profits, U.S. Government military
contracts, financial investments, large data analytics, currency exchange and
education.

Glenn is responsible for the establishment and adherence to enterprise
architectural practices, principles, strategies within the CIO’s office and
across the university. He and his team promote quality assurance, DevOps,
AppSec, and all things Integration. Glenn is also the Chief Integration
Evangelist & Leader for Integration Architecture/Platform movement, which
includes his team serving as University’s “ISET” and leading a cross-disciplined
DevOps team that implemented and maintains the university's Enterprise
Integration Platform [EIP]. He serves on the Board of Directors of the HighEdWeb
Association as Vice President. For the past 25+ years, Glenn has held various
technical/leadership roles at the university where he has led or been involved
in some of the university's most impactful/influential efforts.

Markus Radons joined DeVry University in November 2019 with broad functional and
technical experience in Business Intelligence & Analytics, Enterprise
Architecture, Identity & Access Management, developed as an IT leader in
various positions during 22 years at a Fortune 500 company. Markus studied
Information Management at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. His family
moved to Illinois from Germany 16 years ago. Markus is passionate about bridging
the gap between business and technology and believes that easy access to Data
and APIs are strategically vital for digital enterprises. In his free time,
Markus enjoys traveling, spending time with his two daughters, and hiking with
the family dogs.

In his role, Nuwan works closely with WSO2 customers, which include Fortune 1000
companies, to design and develop highly scalable systems to meet their specific
requirements. Post implementation, he takes technical ownership and is
responsible for customer success of the many projects he oversees. Nuwan has
over 10 years of industry experience with particular expertise across the
e-government, finance, education, and healthcare verticals. He also has research
and development experience in several European Union software research projects
during his time at Cirquent GmbH/NTT Data (Munich, Germany). Previously, Nuwan
served in multiple roles in the WSO2 Engineering Team ranging from software
engineering, technical leadership, product management, and architecture.

Prior to joining WSO2 Chris worked for one of the largest UK Government agencies.
He has over 17 years of experience in large enterprise software architecture,
design, development, and operations. One of his most recent achievements has
been setting up and leading a new integration delivery group, implementing
modern DevOps practices and environments and adopting agile delivery and
development practices. This team now designs, develops and operates integration
platforms critical to the operation of UK government infrastructure.