Rashid N. Khan

Rashid is the founder and President of Leadership BPM, a consultancy that focuses on empowering senior executives and IT management with a process vision and practical knowledge about BPM and related technologies that can transform the organization. He leverages his 14-years of practical, real-world BPM development and deployment experiences that span hundreds of customers worldwide across industries, to bring a unique practical perspective to the industry.

Rashid was the Founder and former CEO of Ultimus Inc. (www.ultimus.com ) a pioneer and leader in business process management and workflow automation. Ultimus was established in 1994 without any outside investment, with the long-term vision of bringing workflow automation to every desktop. Under his leadership, Ultimus became a leading provider of Web-based business process management solutions that allow companies across industries to enhance profitability through improved worker productivity. The Ultimus BPM Suite is being used by more than 1800 customers including Dell, Sony, Microsoft and Compaq, and has won several industry awards, including the e-Week Excellence Award, CRN Editor’s Choice Award and PC Week’s Best of COMDEX. The company employed more than 300 people in eighteen offices across the globe and has consistently achieved profitability and excellent growth in revenue, earning Ultimus positions in the prestigious Inc 500, and Deloitte & Touche’s Technology Fast 500 in North America five years in a row. Ultimus is also ranked among the leaders in the BPM industry by Gartner Group, Forrester Research and the Butler Group.

Prior to establishing Ultimus, Rashid was the founder and CEO of Sintech Inc., a leader in advanced software for mechanical testing. He founded Sintech in 1983, and bootstrapped the company to become a leader in its industry. After six years of rapid and profitable growth, Mr. Khan sold Sintech to MTS Systems Corporation (www.mts.com) in 1989, where he worked for five years as a Vice President and General Manager. During this period he took his division through ISO 9000 certification. This experience made him aware of the need for business process management and workflow automation, which was the catalyst for the idea that led to Ultimus.

Rashid obtained two Bachelors degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Political Science. He obtained a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Khan was awarded 3 technology patents by the US Patent Office, two of them in the area of business process management and workflow automation software. Two additional patents are pending. He has published numerous technical papers and business articles, and his first book titled Business Process Management: A Practical Guide was published in late 2004.