L. A. Burman Associates

Postal Address	23 Hambly Ave., Suite 300 M4E 2R5 Toronto Ontario Canada
Telephon	416.699.7198
Fax	416.699.1178
E-mail	linda@laburman.com
Web	http://www.laburman.com

Linda Burman - Linda Burman is President and CEO of L. A. Burman Associates, Co-chair and Founder of the PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) Working Group, Co-author of Mastering XML (Sybex, 1999), Manager of Industry Relations for the XML Handbook, and XML Instructor at the University of Toronto.

L. A. Burman Associates is an XML consulting firm founded in 1994 to leverage the phenomenal growth in online publishing and the information industry. The company services large publishers, software/hardware vendors, non-profit consortia such as the GCA (and IDEAlliance) and OASIS, and the investment community. L. A. Burman Associates' expertise covers a wide range of activities including XML standards development, strategic market and business planning/implementation, business development, investigation for due diligence, industry and software analysis, sponsorship programs and training.

Prior to starting her own company, Burman was Director of Worldwide Marketing at SoftQuad International, and before that she was the Publishing Evangelist at Apple Computer (Cupertino). She has also held technical and business roles at other hardware and software companies in data communications and publishing.

Ms. Burman is recognized as an XML industry expert She also sits on the Advisory Councils of Foundry Ventures Inc and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. And in her former life she taught high school.