Peter Brown (peter.brown@oasis-open.org)
serves on the Outreach and Staffing Committees of the OASIS
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 and 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.
Mike DeNicola (mike.denicola@oasis-open.org)
chairs the Governance Committee of the OASIS Board and is a
member of the OASIS Finance and Audit Committee; 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
Corporation and Fujitsu Software Corporation.
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. Mr.
DeNicola holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a
Masters equivalent from Cornell University.
Bob Freund (bob.freund@oasis-open.org)
chairs the IPR Committee and serves on the Process and
Governance Committees of the OASIS Board; his term extends to
July 2010. Mr. Freund represents Hitachi in several
Internet-related activities. He has more than 38 years of
computer industry experience in hardware, software and systems
architecture, design, and development. His electronic
engineering accomplishments include the invention of signature
transducers used for a US Air Force security system, the
design of disk controllers, electronic toys, and
IBM-compatible mainframe processor micro-code and channel
subsystems. Mr. Freund's recent standards involvement includes
participation in the OASIS SCA-Assembly, SCA-Policy, WS-RM,
WS-RX, and the WS-TX Technical Committees. He chairs the WS-I
Reliable Secure Profile Working Group and has previously
chaired the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group.
Robert Glushko, Ph.D. (bob.glushko@oasis-open.org)
chairs the Outreach Committee and serves on the IPR Committee
of the OASIS Board; his term extends to July 2010. 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 works on its Finance
and Auditing, Staffing, IPR, Process, Governance, and
Submissions Policy 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 and also works on its
IPR, Process, Outreach, Governance, and Staffing Committees;
his term extends to July 2010. 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). 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.
Jim Hughes (jim.hughes@oasis-open.org)
serves as Treasurer of the OASIS Board and also works on its
Finance and Auditing, IPR, Process, Governance, and
Submissions Policy Committees; his term extends to July 2010.
Mr. Hughes is a Senior Standards Strategist in Microsoft's
Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group (CISG). He is
responsible for a variety of strategic standards activities at
Microsoft, including the support of internal product
development teams and representing Microsoft in various
standards groups. Some of his current standards work includes
active participation in the INCITS Executive Board (the US
National Body for IT Standards); IEEE Standards Board (and
subgroups) and IEEE/SA Corporate Advisory Group; and ISO/IEC
JTC 1 (through the US Delegations). IMr. Hughes was previously
employed at HP (standards), Fujitsu (standards and distributed
computing), UniSoft (porting Unix to Motorola processor
families), Amdahl (creating mainframe Unix) and IBM (MVS
systems programming). He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and
an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of
Colorado, Boulder.
Paul Knight (paul.knight@oasis-open.org)
chairs the Staffing Committee of the OASIS Board and serves on
its Process and Submissions Policy Committees; his term
extends to July 2010. 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)
serves as Vice Chair of the OASIS Board and also chairs its
Process Committee and serves on its IPR, Finance, and
Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2010. 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 Submissions Policy Committee of the OASIS Board and
serves on its IPR, Process, and Governance Committees; his
term extends to July 2009. Mr. von Riegen is Director of
Technology Standards and Open Source at SAP AG. In this role,
he is responsible for SAP's strategy with regard to technology
standards and open source software, 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, Submissions Policy, 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.
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