Jerry Grochow is Vice President for Information Services and Technology at MIT.
He was formerly Chief Technology Office at FolioFN, Inc., an Internet-based financial services firm, and Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Center for Advanced Technologies at American Management Systems [1].
AMS and the Center have a significant interest in architecture, patterns, and object technology for use in strategic business applications (see [2] and [3]). Larry Best [4] is heading up our architecture efforts as part of the Object and Architecture Lab in the Center.