Executive Team
Paul Preiss - CEO and Founder
Paul received a bachelors degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. He went on to become a project manager for Human Code. Later, Paul was the Applications Manager and Architect for Dell Pan Asia based in Kawasaki, Japan. He then became the Sr. Architect for a software consulting firm in St Paul Minnesota, where he provided architecture consulting for numerous government and private enterprise clients. Paul went on to become the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. More recently Paul has spent most of his time creating and managing the International Association of Software Architects.

 

Timothy Leonard - President

Timothy Leonard, has over 21 years experience in strategic planning, program management, designing, building, and supporting IT solutions founded on a strict adherence to model based/model managed architectural disciplines. A published author and industry speaker, he combines strategic vision, enterprise modeling expertise, program management and group facilitation skills to design and implement data warehouse, BI and data architecture solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He is the Inventor and Patent Holder(6,085,171) of The Order Entry System for Changing Services supports Communications Services. Mr. Leonard is a featured speaker at industry and vendor events such as TDWI, DAMA, and Informatica's " Positioning your System for 64-Bit Architecture Design " nationwide seminar tour.

Aaron Tan Dani - Asia Pacific Regional Chair & Co-Founder
Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the IT Architecture related field as he believes that only with proper understanding and implementation of the IT Architecture blueprint that IT will bring maximum values to the business. With this passion, he has been actively involved as a co-founder and the Chairman of International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Asia Pacific since 2004 and was actively involved in setting up and leading IASA Chapter across Asia Pacific countries. Aaron is well connected with the industry leaders and government bodies in the respective APAC countries.
 

With a unique combination of expertise in business, technology, culture and politics, he has more than 16 years experience in start-up companies, MNCs, government, ISV, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, consulting, FMCG, FSI and setting up of NGO bodies like ISAC-M and IASA in various countries and involved in various IT projects and roles across Asia Pacific, the US and UK.  Aaron is also an active and frequent public speaker in various Industry Conferences; Seminars & Workshops presenting various IT & Business related topics across Asia Pacific regions. He is a charismatic, passionate and entertaining presenter and consistently received top 20% of Speaker Rating at various regional and international events. 

 

Aaron was previously working as a Director of Financial Services Platform Strategy with Microsoft for more than 6 years and prior to that he was a Regional Chief Architect with one of UK’s leading IT and business strategy consulting firms based in Singapore.  He holds a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Western Australia.