Paul Daly

Paul Daly has 22 years commercial experience in the printing and publishing industry. Since 1998 he has worked with SGML, XML and HTML, designing, implementing and maintaining websites, and with Perl, DSSSL, Java, and Visual Basic, developing XML-based solutions for database-backed electronic publishing environments.

Ron Daniel Jr.

Ron Daniel Jr. is co-chair of the PRISM Working Group and co-editor of the PRISM specification, which was released in April. He is also chair of W3C's XML Linking Interest Group, co-editor of W3C's XPointer specification and was co-editor of first two Dublin Core reports. Prior to Interwoven, Dr. Daniel worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on projects around large-scale and long-duration information infrastructures. He received his PH.D in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University.

Dave deBronkart

Dave deBronkart is Senior Consultant with PODi, the Digital Printing initiative, a not-for-profit industry initiative focused on developing the market for digital printing through market education and standards activities. Throughout his career in the graphic arts he has focused on productivity enhancements, both as consultant and employee at industry leading firms including Compugraphic (now Agfa), Indigo, Scitex, Itek, and Du Pont. For the past year he has served as Program Director for PODi's initiative to develop PPML, an XML-based standard for personalized printing. A graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, Mr. deBronkart is based in the Boston area.

Andre DeWild

Andre DeWild is a supervisor in Wiring Diagram and System Schematic Production at United Airlines. He is the chairman of the ATA Graphics Working Group and has been instrumental in the definition of requirements for graphical interchange and intelligent graphics applications within the air transport industry. He has several years of experience with graphics interchange and use within the industry.

Jay Di Silvestri

Jay began his career with CCH, Inc. in 1994 where he successfully transitioned the CD-ROM/Online Development Group from a proprietary software model to open source systems and languages. He helped form Advanced Data Engineering, an XML services company, where he first served as Vice President of Research and Development, and later as Executive Vice President. His company was recently acquired by SoftQuad Software Ltd. He is currently the Director of Business Development for the Content Services Group. Jay received his BA Degree in Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Law Degree from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Anthony J. Duhig

Anthony Duhig is a Technical Consultant at empolis UK. He is responsible for developing products and solutions in the field of structured information systems. He has 10 years experience developing software with a variety of languages and technologies. Over the past year, Anthony has developed and consulted with clients to build real world XLink based solutions. His current focus is the development of generic components to support the visual creation of out-of-line links using XLink and empolis X2X technology.

Edd Dumbill

Edd Dumbill is Managing Editor of XML.com, part of the O'Reilly Network. He writes and speaks on the subjects of XML and the Web. He is also the creator of XMLhack.com, the popular XML developer news site, and WriteTheWeb.com, a web site focusing on the writeable, two-way, Web. Edd is also co-founder of Pharmalicensing.com, an online intellectual property exchange for the pharmaceutical industry.

Alan Dye

As Chief XML Architect for HP's Middleware Division, Alan Dye sets the strategic direction of the development of XML related technologies for HP's Middleware Products. HP is an strong proponent of open industry standards, preferring to build open, extensible products rather than proprietary technologies that lock customers in. Consequently, HP relies heavily on such open industry platforms as Java, JavaServer Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans, XML, and other technologies in Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and other standards platforms. Alan's career at Hewlett-Packard spans more than 8 years, and has touched on products such as the Color LaserJet, HP's C and C++ compilers technologies, the production of a suite of ported and readily available Open Source tools for the HP-UX platform, and recently the acquisition by HP of Bluestone Software in the Application Server space. Alan holds a Bachelors degree with a Major in Business and a minor in Information Systems and Control Theory from Idaho State University.

Peter Ebenhoch

Peter Ebenhoch is a lawyer and consulent for electronic publishing, including both, legal and technical aspects. His company, epico Informationssysteme GmbH (www.epico.at), offers consulting for electronic publishing projects and dynamic websites using media neutral methods, especially in the domain of legal and administrative information technology.

Richard Edmonds

Richard Edmonds is head of e-commerce strategy for Stemcor Group and has both a technical and business background. He was employed by IBM UK Ltd in a systems engineering role from 1989 to 1993 and then as a steel trader for Stemcor USA Inc until 1999, ultimately with responsibility for Stemcor's trading business in South America. From the start of 2000, Richard has spearheaded a drive towards full e-commerce, with the objective to turn Stemcor into a 'bricks and click' company and enable the Group to take advantage of the new business processes enabled by the Internet.

Marion Elledge

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John Evdemon

John has over eleven years of experience designing and deploying enterprise systems using a variety of platforms, architectures, and methodologies. John also has extensive experience in Information/Web Security, project management, and researching/writing/presenting technical topics and papers. John is the Chairman of the XML Forum for Education, is a member of the W3C XML Core Working Group, and is also active in both ACM and IEEE. John holds a Graduate Certificate in Information Security Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Jon Ferraiolo

Jon Ferraiolo is a member of Adobe's Advanced Technology Group where he focuses on issues related to the Web and XML. He is Adobe's representative to the W3C's working group on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and is editor of the SVG specification. Jon has been an engineering manager and product manager at various software companies. He has an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University.

Chris Ferris

Christopher is a senior staff engineer in Sun's XML Technology Center. He is vice-chair of the ebXML Transport Routing and Packaging project team (TR&P). Christopher has been at Sun for over ten years and has over twenty years experience in distributed IT systems architecture, design and implementation.

Greg A. FitzPatrick

A computer veteran of 25 years, does research in the evolvement of end-to-end markets and super directories. He is an adviser to the Swedish government's Information Technology Commission, a contributing author to the Swedish Governmental Enquiry on Infrastructure, an adviser to the National Education Agency and the Swedish National Tourist Council. He is the initiator and co-author of the SkiCal directory mark-up language. He is currently assisting the Swedish labour board in the development of an end-to-end labour market and writing a book about the rise and fall of the database.

Eric D. Freese

Mr. Eric Freese is the Director of Professional Services in the Midwest Region for ISOGEN International, a DataChannel company. Mr. Freese has more than a dozen years of experience in the area of information, document, and knowledge management. His specific expertise is in the implementation of markup technologies including XML, DSSSL, HyTime, Topic Maps, HTML and the WWW. This experience includes research, analysis, specification, design, development, testing, implementation, integration and management of database systems and computer technologies in business, education and government environments. Mr. Freese has research experience in human interface design, graphics interface development, and artificial intelligence. He is also a founding member of TopicMaps.org, the organization responsible for XTM, the topic map standard for the web. Mr. Freese has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide, including XML 2000, XML Asia/Pacific, Extreme Markup, XML Europe, Metastructures, SGML Europe '96, SGML '91, '92 and '94, Seybold Paris, the International WWW Conference and the Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, on subjects including structured information, data and document management and artificial intelligence.