Paula S. deWitte, Ph.D., is currently Director, New Business Development at 21^st Century Technologies, Austin, TX. 21^st Century Technologies develops new technologies for use by the intelligence and research communities. Dr. deWitte received her B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Her dissertation work was in extracting data from textual information and reasoning about that data. At 21^st Century Technologies, Dr. deWitte is establishing a research group in computational linguistics which will include research in intelligent text extraction, computer security, and natural language processing. She has been Principal Investigator on numerous research efforts from the National Science Foundation, the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA in the areas of information integration, maintenance, logistics, and modeling technologies. Prior to joining 21^st Century Technologies, Dr. deWitte was Executive Vice President and co-Founder of Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) for twelve years.

At KBSI, she was responsible for commercializing research and technology development results. Dr. deWitte is widely published in methods related to business process engineering including Delivering Results, Evolving BPR from Art to Engineering published in Business Process Engineering: Advancing the State of the Art, by Kluwer Publishers. She was part of the research team at both at Texas A&M University and at KBSI that researched the next-generation systems engineering methods for the USAF that extended the original IDEF Methods. After leaving KBSI, she was President of Clockwork Solutions for four years. Clockwork specialized in Monte-Carlo based simulation technologies for use in the reliability and maintainability domains with a customer base that included General Electric Power Systems, Bechtel, PetroCanada, and Chevron-Texaco as well as the U.S. military and defense supplier chain customers.