Thomas Bikeev, B2B Group Manager, GS1
Thomas Bikeev is B2B Group Manager at GS1. Thomas' responsibilities include the design and maintenance of EDI and XML Standards used by the organization. Thomas has extensive experience in the integration and implementation of enterprise messaging systems. Prior to joining GS1 (EAN International), Thomas was working for clearance and settlement departments at JP Morgan and Clearstream (Deutsche Boerse Group). Thomas is involved in creation and implementation of the GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) Standards using GS1 XML and EANCOM (EDIFACT) syntaxes.

John Borras - CEO of the UK's Local e-Government Standards Body
John Borras is the CEO of the UK's Local e-Government Standards Body. He has been a civil servant working for the UK Government for over 35 years working in the Inland Revenue developing Data, Information and IS/IT Strategies and supporting technical frameworks. In 2001, he transferred to the Office of e-Envoy, now the e-Government Unit, and was responsible as Director of Technology Policy for the UK Government's ICT technical and architectural frameworks, including its e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) and Open Source Software Policy. A key part of the UK's e-GIF is the adoption of open, international standards, including XML for data integration. He moved to his current post at the end of 2004 where his focus is now on e-government standards for local government in the UK (see www.lesgb.gov.uk). He has represented the UK Government on various European and International technical groups and projects, and has chaired many cross-government working groups in the UK. John served on the OASIS Board of Directors from 2002-2005 and currently chairs the OASIS Election & Voter Services Technical Committee.

Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, Counsellor, ITU-T SG 6&16
Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto joined the secretariat of the ITU standardisation Sector (ITU-T) in 2002 and is the Counsellor for ITU-T Study Groups 6 (for outside plant and indoor installations) and 16 (for standardisation work on multimedia services, protocols, systems, terminals and media coding). He also organized several ITU-T workshops, was the TSB Coordinator for the 2003 Informal Forum Summit, and acted as editor of the first version of the ITU T Security Manual. Prior to joining ITU in 2002, Simão worked as a scientist in COMSAT Laboratories performing standards representation and quality assessment for digital voice coding systems. A Senior Member of the IEEE, Simão authored several academic papers and position papers, and served in the review committee of several IEEE-sponsored conferences.

Dr. Keith R. Dickerson, ICT Standards Board Chairman, ICTSB and Head of
Standards for BT
Keith Dickerson has worked in the ICT industry for 25 years and is currently Head of Standards for the BT Group of companies as part of the Office of the CTO. He provides direction to BT's standards activities, identifying the key technologies to BT and the standards required to support these. Keith directs a team of professional engineers participating in standards in all areas related to telecommunications and IT. He is responsible for developing strategies for participation in bodies such as CEN, ETSI, IETF, ITU, OMA, TMF, W3C and many others. He is also a member of the Internet Society (ISOC) and, most recently, elected to the Board of the newly created IPsphere forum. Keith has played a leading role within ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) for over 10 years and was elected to the Board of ETSI in 2002. Keith has also played a strategic role within CEN and between 1997 and 2004 was the CEN ICT Rapporteur and Chairman of the CEN/ISSS Forum. Also, in March 2000, Keith was elected Chairman of the ICT Standards Board (ICTSB), the body which coordinates the activities of the ESOs and fora with a European focus, and has since led initiatives to clarify its role, widen its membership and strengthen links with RTD. From 1992-1995, Keith lived and worked in Brussels as a member of the RACE Consensus Management project, where he was responsible for downstreaming the results of the EU RACE and ACTS R&D programmes to international standards. Keith has made over 100 contributions to international standards bodies including ITU, ISO and ETSI on a wide range of topics including man-machine interfaces, services, and telecommunications and information systems architectures.

Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS
Patrick J. Gannon (patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org) is President and CEO of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards); an international not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to drive the development, convergence and adoption of e-Business standards. He has served on the OASIS Board of Directors since July 2000. Patrick has also served since 2000 with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as Chairman of the Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. He has worked for BEA Systems, as Senior Vice President in the eCommerce Integration Division. Patrick also served as Vice President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. While at CommerceNet, he was the first Project Leader for RosettaNet and served as Executive Director for the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) initiative. Patrick is co-author of the book: Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs, and is an international speaker on electronic business and Web Services standards. Patrick is based in Boston.

Øyvind Gjørven, Senior Advisor/Project leader, National Insurance
Administration Norway - IT Department
Øyvind Gjøven graduated as M. Sc. from the University of Oslo. Øyvind joined the National Insurance Administration (NIA) in 2002 as project leader to establish a new communication platform based on open international standards. He has been working with standardised communication solutions for 15 years. Before he came to NIA, Oyvind was Director of e-Commerce at the Norwegian telecommunication company, Telenor. Before Telenor he was Managing Director for an EDI software company with offices in Norway and Sweden. He has participated in several projects in EUs frame programs concerning standardised communication solutions.

Terry Hawes, Head of Channels Architecture, HM Revenue United Kingdom
Terry joined the Inland Revenue in 1975 and has worked in a wide variety of roles including Operations Manager for PAYE and Director of Online Services where he was responsible for the introduction of internet filing of tax returns for individuals, companies and employers and the development of other online services. Terry is currently Head of Channels Architecture for the new HM Revenue & Customs bringing together the two old Departments and is heavily involved in the implementation of XBRL.

Dr. Barbara Held, European Commission, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European eGovernment Services (IDABC)
Barbara Held is currently working as Detached National Expert at the European Commission Program for Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA); project officer of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and related projects. Being a Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, Dr. Held formerly served at the German Government's Coordination and Advisory Board for IT in the Administration (KBSt); responsible for software strategy and, as member of the SAGA Team, defining standards and architectures for eGovernment applications. She holds a PhD from Free University Berlin in Communication Science.

Verina Horsnell, Chairman, CEN/ISSS
Verina Horsnell is the chairman of the CEN/ISSS Forum, a coordination body for ICT standardization within CEN. Verina has 20+ years experience as a standards manager for various organizations, most recently working for Sun Microsystems as European Standards Manager. During this time Verina has been a participant or chairman of various British, European and International ICT Standards committees. Currently Verina is a consultant in ICT standardization.

Dieter Koenig of IBM, OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee Representative
Dieter Koenig is a software architect for workflow systems at the IBM Germany Development Laboratory. He joined the laboratory in 1988 and has worked on Resource Measurement Facility for z/OS, MQSeries Workflow, and WebSphere Process Choreographer. Dieter is a member of the OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee, which is working towards an industry standard for WS-BPEL. Dieter holds a master's degree (Dipl.inform.) in computer science from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Ian Larner, Information Architect and Software Engineer User Technologies, IBM Hursley Lab, United Kingdom
Ian Larner has been working for IBM for 15 years, in Information Development/User Technologies. His role in this team is to architect, write, translate, and deliver information for IBM products and solutions, and to help design and (lately) code user interfaces and other technologies that our customers use. Before joining IBM, Ian worked as a Technical Author for several companies in England and France for 5 years, and before that as a Mechanical Engineer testing components for fast nuclear reactors and designing systems for the safe handling of reactors and nuclear materials. Ian has been involved with DITA since the early days, and was part of a WebSphere project that moved from html to DITA before it was officially supported. He personally migrated over 2000 html files into DITA, while continuing development of the content. Using the default transforms, some tweaks, and some simple custom XSLT, this migration went briskly and without hitch. Ian also wrote some custom XSLT (such as DITA-FO) for the project needs until the core DITA support became available. Since then we have spread the use of DITA to associated groups, and have evolved the sophistication of our DITA usage. In February, Ian became one of the IBM DITA Architects, to help with the adoption and evolution of the OASIS DITA Standard both within IBM and throughout the wider community.

Indi Liepa, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Representative/Senior Information Architect, Technology Platforms, Nokia, United Kingdom
DITA has been selected as the common content XML information architecture for the product creation process within the mobile domain of Nokia and is currently at production level in the organisation. Indi is responsible for the architecture in Nokia and for supporting user groups in adopting and gaining business value from the architecture. Her daily work includes promoting the architecture, specifying and designing DITA specialisations for different user groups, defining architecture releases, training users and carrying out content analysis. Indi has also worked as a technical writer, information designer and task engineer within the telecommunications sector for over 15 years.

Tim McGrath, Member of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee
Tim McGrath is recognized as a leader in the introduction of Internet technologies to the EDI and e-commerce marketplace in Australia, specifically in the areas of international trade and transport. Tim was an active participant in the development of the ISO 15000 (ebXML) standards. He led the Quality Review Team for the ebXML initiative between 2000 and 2002, was a member of the ebXML Steering Committee. Since 2002 he has been the Chair of the Library Content subcommittee of the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) project as well as collaborating on a soon-to-be published book from MIT Press entitled "Document Engineering: Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services". Over the past twelve months, Tim has been promoting UBL and teaching the Document Engineering approach in Australia, Denmark, UK, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong SAR, and China.

David Mitchell, Practice Leader, Software
David Mitchell is the Software Practice Leader, managing the Software@Ovum advisory services. He also leads the consulting group that focuses on the software and IT services market. He leads Ovum's research on the commercial, pricing, and licensing aspects of the software industry - including the impact of open source software on the financial structure of the software industry. He has been involved in commercial, pricing, and licensing consulting and advisory engagements with clients across the software and IT services industry in Europe and the US. David joined Ovum from Oracle Corporation UK where he was Senior Director, Market Development. He has also worked in Coopers & Lybrand and Unisys Europe-Africa Ltd. His prime focus has been on large-scale system integration projects and the economic foundations of the IT industry. Prior to moving into the industry, David was a lecturer at Edinburgh University. He researched geographic information systems, their adoption in business, and their eventual economic benefits. He has a B.Sc. from St. Andrews University and an M.Phil. from the University of London.

Jon Pyke, CEO, The Process Factory & Chair WfMC
Jon Pyke was the Chief Technology Office and a main board director of Staffware Plc from August 1992 until its acquisition by Tibco Inc. in 2004. As the CTO of Staffware Plc, Jon's primarily responsibility was directing the product development cycle. Furthermore, he had overall executive responsibility for the product strategy, positioning and public speaking. Finally, as the main board director he was heavily involved in the PLC board activities including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and was a board director of several subsidiaries. He has written and published a number of articles on the subject of Office Automation, BPM and Workflow Technology and has a new book to be published an October this year. Jon is a frequent speaker at international events and he regularly quoted in the National and Industry press. He co-founded and is the Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition. He is an Aim Laureate for Workflow and was awarded the Marvin Manheim award for Excellence in workflow in 2003.

Melvin Reynolds, Senior Partner, AMS Consulting
Trained in physiology and pharmacology, Melvin started his working life with the UK Medical Research Council before joining a manufacturer of medical and laboratory instrumentation. Initially Melvin worked in sales, product and sales management, and marketing; then finally as an international business manager for clinical information systems with responsibility for all research, development, marketing and sales aspects of that business worldwide. In 1996, he established AMS Consulting, which specialises in the use of information in, and application of technology to, healthcare in both its provider & business-to-business sectors relating to systems analysis, development, marketing and deployment of medical device and information systems. Whilst responsible for clinical information systems Melvin became frustrated by the lack of interoperability in health information systems - he is now paying for that frustration by active participation in CEN TC251, ISO TC215, IEEE1073, Health Level 7 IHE and necessary other activities. Melvin has been the author and co-author of numerous scientific and technical papers; initially on trauma, but more recently of reviews and research reports on technology in medicine, together with presentations as an invited speaker and contributor of commissioned reviews of health informatics at the point of care. Melvin claims his sanity is maintained by walking his dog on the Herefordshire hills.

Patrick J. Smith, Director of Product Management for XML Products, Xenos
Patrick Smith is the director of product management for XML products at Xenos. Patrick oversees the product management team that is responsible for product vision, definition, and market positioning and works extensively with the customers and sales teams to ensure a robust and extensible product offering. Patrick has over 14 years of experience in the customer relationship management, information technology and telecommunications fields. Prior to joining Xenos, Patrick served as director of product management for Java Development and Deployment products at Quest Software [NASDAQ: QSFT]. Patrick's area of specialty is the development and deployment of global software applications employing distributed object technology and software reuse. He has worked on highly visible projects in the United States and Canada, and has held positions with a number of software development organizations. These include Senior Member of Technical staff for Knowledge Systems Corporation, Systems Engineer for Electronic Data Systems Corporation and Software Designer for Nortel Networks. Patrick is a graduate of the Electronic Data Systems Corporation's System Engineering Development Program and holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Erwin Tenhumberg, Product Marketing Manager, Client Systems Group, Sun Microsystems GmbH
Erwin Tenhumberg is the product marketing manager for OpenOffice.org within the Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. Tenhumberg started working for Sun as a systems engineer doing pre-sales for various software and desktop products including the StarOffice office suite and the Sun Ray ultra-thin client. Before Tenhumberg joined Sun he worked for various companies doing Java consulting, software development, desktop application administration, and end user support.

Harm Jan van Burg of Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OASIS eGovernment Technical Committee Chair
Harm Jan van Burg works for the Netherlands Ministry of Finance/ directorate-general of the tax- and customs administration in The Hague since 1983. During his whole career, Harm Jan was involved in electronic communication. He was involved in electronic tax filing and presently the electronic government in the Netherlands. In 2003 he was rewarded the Dutch XML award for his efforts. Presently, Harm Jan is project leader for the national XBRL taxonomy project and chair of the OASIS EGov as well as the Tax XML TC.