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	About Our Founders
	Steve Baker Steve Baker is the co-founder and CEO of BusinessGenetics®. BusinessGenetics is a member company of Affinity Solutions, a corporate incubator located in Denver, Colorado. Steve has over twenty five years of experience in the Information Technology, Healthcare, and Real Estate industries. He has held positions in business/general management, sales management and line management, for several Fortune organizations, including Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). For the past decade Steve has focused on improving the communication within and among businesses as well as improving their operational efficiencies. This has included substantial experience with all portions of the corporate value chain. Steve has recently published a book, “Business Genetics: A Business Management Tool for 21st Century Commerce” (Wiley 2007), a book that challenges and confronts mainstream thinking and theories, and introduces a revolutionary, unique approach to foundationally rethinking the manner in which we describe, plan and improve business. Steve was an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Business, University of Denver. He also sits on the boards of several private (high tech, real estate, and healthcare) and non-profit educational corporations. Cedric Tyler Cedric is a leading, global expert in the fields of Business Modeling, Business Process and Information Technology. He began his career with IBM in the IT industry. He spent many years in this field and also worked on cutting edge technologies in an Applied Research capacity for IBM at IBM’s showcase development facility (RESPOND) in the U.K. Subsequently, Cedric founded INFOMET (Pty) LTD and Infolab, two international companies specializing in the business-to-information technology interface. These companies were acquired by IBM in the early 1990’s. Cedric is the principal inventor of the breakthrough xBML™ (eXtended Business Modeling Language) methodology, a rule-based, synoptic and formal language for describing business. Cedric is a principle of BusinessGenetics, Inc. an international organization that provides training and professional services and serves on the board of xBML Innovations, which provides a comprehensive xBML software solution suite and Affinity Solutions. Cedric has recently published a book, “Business Genetics: A Business Management Tool for 21st Century Commerce” (Wiley 2007), a book that challenges and confronts mainstream thinking and theories, and introduces a revolutionary, unique approach to foundationally rethinking the manner in which we describe, plan and improve business. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Economics and Business Administration majors (Rhodes University) and has served as an adjunct professor at the Daniels College of business (executive MBA program).

Corporate Overview

BusinessGenetics, founded in 2000 and based in Englewood, Colorado, is a leading knowledge transfer, consulting and software corporation based on the tenet that a single business model must be used as the foundation for all corporate initiatives. To actualize this belief, BusinessGenetics has developed a suite of educational and consulting services based on our revolutionary business modeling language and methodology, xBML. Key achievements include: BusinessGenetics methodology and xBML tools have been proven in over 500 projects worldwide Over 1,000 professionals have been trained in the xBML methodology and tools Our clients have identified over $2 billion in savings through the Businessgenetics approach BusinessGenetics has been ranked as one of the fastest growing Colorado companies for five consecutive years Further, in an article featuring BusinessGenetics in the Denver Business Journal, Bill Rosser, vice president and fellow at Gartner commented, “I think the results they get are remarkable. They can get a complete, unambiguous representation of business activity using a simple methodology that business people take to.” Further, while Rosser said up to 100 firms offer modeling techniques for businesses, he called the one designed by BusinessGenetics-xBML one that users often describe as “unique and perhaps the best of its kind”. According to leading industry analyst groups, business modeling represents the primary driver that will enable corporations to dramatically improve productivity and eliminate inefficiencies in the new economy. Unlike traditional approaches to business engineering and process reengineering, BusinessGenetics has also made significant inroads into advanced methods to practically apply business modeling output at all levels in the organization. BusinessGenetics prides itself in demonstrating tangible ROI for each business modeling engagement and has established a diverse client base of leading Fortune 500 companies across a wide range of industries and federal agencies. Commitment to Success As an employee-owned corporation, BusinessGenetics has a unique, shared commitment in helping our clients succeed. Every employee has direct involvement and takes great pride in the results we achieve for our clients. Those results positively reflect on the company in which each of us has a stake.