Peter Brown (peter.brown@oasis-open.org) serves on the Strategy, IT Infrastructure, and Outreach Committees of the OASIS Board of Directors and as its representative on the OASIS Technical Advisory Board; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. Brown is Founder of Pensive.eu, a consultancy, research and software development company based in Vienna, Austria and Brussels, Belgium. He is currently also Chair of the "eGovernment Focus group" set up by the European standards agency, CEN, and is an active member of OASIS, most recently as co-editor of the SOA-RM OASIS Standard.

Most of Mr. Brown's career to date has been working in the European public service - five years for the Council of Europe until 1989 and then for the European Parliament, where his work over 16 years has covered all aspects of the organization's work, from running the leader's office of the largest political group, acting as a political adviser, developing (pre-Web) online information networks, through to developing organization-wide information architecture and involving the Parliament in standards and consortium work. His most recent assignment before founding Pensive, was to join the Austrian Government's EU eGovernment Strategy unit as a senior adviser. Mr. Brown's areas of professional interest cover semantic technologies, identity management, SOA and information management.

Edward Cobb (edward.cobb@oasis-open.org) serves as vice-chair of the OASIS Board, chairs its IPR and Outreach Committees, and works on its Staffing and Executive Committees; his term extends to July 2008. Mr. Cobb was the Vice President, Architecture & Standards at BEA Systems, where he was responsible for BEA's participation in external standards organizations. He serves as a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee and on the Boards of Directors for OASIS, OMG, WS-I, and the Eclipse Foundation.

Prior to joining BEA, Mr. Cobb spent 31 years at IBM, where he helped develop its IMS and CICS systems and TP strategy. While at IBM, Mr. Cobb led the industry team that produced the OMG's Object Transaction Service (OTS) specification. He is a member of both the ACM and IEEE.

Mike DeNicola (mike.denicola@oasis-open.org) acts as Treasurer of the OASIS Board, chairs its Finance Committee, and serves on its IPR and Executive Committees; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. DeNicola is Director of Industry Relations at Fujitsu Computer Systems in Sunnyvale, California, working directly for the Strategy and Technology Division of Fujitsu Limited in Japan. He began his career with IBM, working both in its US and World Trade Organizations. He has held a wide range of technical, management, and executive positions, including Vice President of Software Development and a Member of the Board of Directors at both UniSoft and Fujitsu Software.

Immediately prior to his present position, Mr. DeNicola was Vice President of Engineering for HAL Computer Systems, a wholly owned Fujitsu subsidiary. In addition to his work with OASIS, he is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) organization. He is the Alternate Board Member for Fujitsu at the Object Management Group (OMG). He also represents Fujitsu on the Java Community Process (JCP) SE/EE Executive Committee, where he is Chair of the JSR 306 AdHoc Committee. Mr. DeNicola holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters equivalent from Cornell University.

Robert Glushko, Ph.D. (bob.glushko@oasis-open.org) serves on the IPR, Outreach, and Strategy Committees of the OASIS Board; his term extends to July 2008. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems, he is the Director of the Center for Document Engineering and teaches courses on XML, business process modeling, information architecture, content management, model-based application development, and services science.

Dr. Glushko co-founded Passage Systems in 1992 and Veo Systems in 1997. After Veo's acquisition in 1999 by Commerce One, he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000. Dr. Glushko is co-author of the book, Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services. He has an MS in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California, San Diego.

Eduardo Gutentag (eduardo.gutentag@oasis-open.org) serves as chair of the OASIS Board, and also chairs its Executive Committee and works on its Finance, Staffing, IPR, IT Infrastructure, and Process Committees; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. Gutentag serves as Technology Director in Sun's Corporate Standards department. His responsibilities include developing and coordinating Sun's participation and direction in XML standards organizations, both "horizontal" and industry specific.

Mr. Gutentag has made very large contributions to many OASIS efforts over the years, including the Technical Advisory Board, the Advisory Committee that designed the OASIS Technical Committees process, and the UBL and Docbook TCs. Mr. Gutentag also serves as Sun's Advisory Committee representative to the W3C, a member the W3C Advisory Board, and as a member of the IDEAlliance Board of Directors.

Frederick Hirsch (frederick.hirsch@oasis-open.org) serves as Secretary of the OASIS Board, chairs its Strategy Committee, and also serves on its Executive, Finance, IPR, and Outreach Committees; his term extends to July 2008. Mr. Hirsch is a Senior Architect at Nokia responsible for service oriented architecture standardization strategy. He has extensive distributed systems and security experience, having worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, BBN, OSF, and CertCo, as well as smaller companies.

Mr. Hirsch has been active in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and as a Liberty Alliance editor for the Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF 2.0), having a focus on security. In the W3C he has contributed as requirements co-editor for XKMS, editor of WS-Policy specifications, and is currently chairing the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group. He has also been an editor in the OASIS Security Services (SAML), WSS, and DSS Technical Committees, Mr. Hirsch is co-author of the book "Mobile Web Services: Architecture and Implementation". He is the primary OASIS and WS-I voting contact for Nokia.

Paul Knight (paul.knight@oasis-open.org) chairs the Staffing Committee of the OASIS Board, serves on its Strategy, IT Infrastructure, and Process Committees; his term extends to July 2008. Mr. Knight has worked with Nortel for 10 years, as a product developer, corporate systems engineer, and currently as a standards advisor. His work in network design has spanned nearly 25 years and has placed him in almost every perspective, from network design consulting (Digital Equipment Corporation), to network customer (Intel), and in a network vendor role (Nortel).

Mr. Knight's recent technical work has focused on routing and security. He has three patent applications related to the Border Gateway Protocol and Virtual Private networks. He is currently co-chair of the IETF PKI4IPSEC Working Group, focusing on Identity-related issues with end-to-end security, specifically the use of digital certificates with the IP security protocol. He is currently secretary of the OASIS WS-TX Technical Committee, and an active member of the OASIS WS-RX, WSRM, and WS-SX Committees. He is a member of the W3C WS-Addressing WG, and has also been a member and document editor in the Open Mobile Alliance's Mobile Web Services WG and a member of WS-I.

Jeff Mischkinsky (jeff.mischkinsky@oasis-open.org) chairs the Process Committee of the OASIS Board and serves on its IPR, Finance, and Staffing Committees; his term extends to July 2008. Mr. Mischkinsky is Director of Web Services Standards and a Consulting Member Technical Staff for Oracle Corporation, where he is responsible for coordinating Oracle's standards efforts in the Web services space. He has over 20 years of development and standards experience in the database and distributed application fields.

Mr. Mischkinsky is also a WS-I Board member and chairs the WS-I Technical Coordination Group. He represents Oracle on W3C's Advisory Committee and participates in several W3C Working Groups including WSDL and Choreography. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mr. Mischkinsky participates in several OASIS Technical Committees on Web services, including those developing WSBPEL, WS-CAF, WS-Reliability, WSRF, and WSN.

Claus von Riegen (claus.vonriegen@oasis-open.org) chairs the IT Infrastructure Committee of the OASIS Board and serves on its IPR and Process Committees; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. von Riegen is Director of Technology Standards at SAP AG. In this role, he is responsible for SAP's strategy with regard to technology standards, from their initial development to full product support.

In particular, Claus has been co-developing various Web services specifications, such as UDDI, WS-Policy and WS-MetadataExchange, and supported their submission to standards organizations. During Claus' membership in the OASIS UDDI Technical Committee, the UDDI specifications have been successfully ratified as OASIS Standards, and he was one of the facilitators for the creation of the OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange (WS-RX) TC, which has achieved industry consensus for WS-ReliableMessaging. Other activities include work on Web services interoperability as part of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and in terms of joint projects with technology partners. He joined SAP in 1994 after obtaining a diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.

Michael Winters (michael.winters@oasis-open.org) serves on the IPR and Process Committees of the OASIS Board; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. Winters is currently the Industry Standards Liaison in the emerging e-business Standards group of the IBM Corporation. He is responsible for establishing and promoting IBM's strategy for cross-industry Web services standards.

In addition, Mr. Winters is a member of the WS-I Liaison Committee and the Board of Directors of Open Applications Group. During his tenure at IBM, Mr. Winters managed alphaWorks and led IBM's XML marketing efforts. He has also held positions in Software Licensing, Intellectual Property Law, and Corporate Tax.