Ronald G. Ross is Co-Founder of BRS (BRSolutions.com). BRS provides consulting, training, and mentoring in support of data, AI, vocabulary, and rules. Concept models and business rules are specialties. Ron co-develops the landmark BRS methodology featuring numerous innovative techniques including the popular ConceptSpeak™ and RuleSpeak® (free on RuleSpeak.com, also in Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Polish). These are the latest offerings in a 5-decade career that has consistently featured creative, business-driven solutions.Ron is Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. Sponsored by BRS, BRCommunity.com is an open community for professionals. Ron is recognized internationally as the ‘father of business rules.’ He was formerly Editor of the Data Base Newsletter from 1977 to 1998.His newest books are: Rules: Shaping Behavior and Knowledge (2023) and Building Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business 2nd ed. (2020) on vocabulary and concept models. In all, Ron is the author of ten professional books including Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules 2nd ed. with Gladys S.W. Lam (2015), and Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge 4th ed. (2013).Ron serves as Chair of the annual Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference, the official conference of the IIBA®. Ron holds an M.S. in information science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Rice University.