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.