Dr. Richard Welke

Professor and Director,
Center for Process Innovation & Department of Computer Information Systems,
Georgia State University
Cor Wit Professor, TBM Faculty - Technical University Delft
Delft, The Netherlands

Dr. Welke is Director of the Center for Process Innovation, professor and previous chairman of the CIS department at Georgia State University. Prior professorships include appointments in the Netherlands (TU-Delft as Cor Wit Research Professor, Erasmus/RSM as HL, Business Informatics) and Canada (McMaster University).

Dr. Welke was co-founder of the information systems discipline's now-major academic organizations, (ICIS, AIS, TIMS College on IS, and IFIP WG 8.2). He has been the ICIS program chair (1986) and co-conference chair (1996) of ICIS as well as serving on its executive committee.

He has started, owned and managed two Computer-aided Software Engineering (CASE) companies; one in Canada (Methodsworks) and the other in the US (Meta Systems). More recently he was CIO for two large engineering companies in Atlanta (Law Group, H.J. Russell).

His research is published in various books, refereed journals and conference proceedings, primarily in the areas of systems development, methodology engineering and meta models. He has been the primary investigator on $3.5M in research grants. 2007 marks Dr. Welke's 45th year in computing, having begun this journey of discovery at GM Research working on the first CAD/CAM system in 1962. His current research is focused on ICT-enabled enterprise services and process innovation.