Chris Blake

Extensive business experience

Christopher has been involved in IT and Management Consultancy for 28 years and is a leading exponent of the principles-based architectural approach to delivering system strategies, architectures, governance environments and business change.

He was previously Managing Consultant/Business Line Leader for Governance and Architecture with QA plc Technical Architecture Consulting Division. Currently he is an associate of Architecting the Enterprise Ltd and Govindex specialising in the development of approaches to Enterprise Architecture Governance.

Christopher is an active member of the Open Group's Architecture Forum. He provided major contributions to the development of TOGAF 8 and is now part of the TOGAF 9 Work Group.

He has been a regular speaker at Open Group group conferences - Boston (2002), Washington (2003), Brussels (2004), San Francisco and Dublin (2005). His topics have included "Value Based Enterprise Architecture" and "Architecture Governance."