New Leadership Joins OASIS Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

New Leadership Joins OASIS Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_08_05_04.php
 
BOSTON, MA, USA; 5 AUGUST 2004 -- OASIS, the international standards
consortium, today announced the results of the 2004 elections for their
Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board. Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu
was elected and Edward Cobb of BEA Systems, Colin Evans of Intel, Frederick
Hirsch of Nokia, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle were re-elected by the OASIS
membership to provide business leadership to advance OASIS as a major
standards-setting body for Web services, e-business, security, and other
applications. Each director serves two-year terms.

DeNicola, Cobb, Evans, Hirsch, and Mischkinsky join existing directors whose
seats expire in 2005, John Borras of the UK Cabinet Office's e-Government
Unit, Eduardo Gutentag of Sun Microsystems, Jim Hughes of Hewlett-Packard,
Christopher Kurt of Microsoft, and Michael Weiner of IBM, as well as Patrick
Gannon, who has an appointed seat on the Board as president and CEO of
OASIS.

The Consortium also announced the nomination and subsequent appointment of
three new members to the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB), a group of
industry experts who provide guidance on issues related to strategy,
process, interoperability, and scope of OASIS technical work. New OASIS TAB
representatives include Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, Michael Mahan of Nokia,
Jishnu Mukerji of Hewlett Packard, and Timothy Stevens of LexisNexis. 

"As business over the World Wide Web becomes a reality, it is important for
the organizations that set the standards for this expansion to have
representation from industry leaders around the globe. Recently, OASIS has
seen significant growth in its membership from outside of North America, and
as a representative of Fujitsu, I am honored to take a seat on the Board of
Directors of this truly international standards body," said Mike DeNicola,
Director of Industry Relations for Fujitsu. 

"I am pleased to have been returned to the OASIS Board of Directors for a
second term and look forward to working with the other directors, staff, and
the OASIS membership to make OASIS even stronger," said Edward Cobb, VP,
Architecture & Standards at BEA Systems.

"Open standards, convergence and interoperability are essential for global
business adoption and deployment of e-business standards, especially across
diverse industries," said Frederick Hirsch, Senior Architect at Nokia
Corporation. "I am pleased to be re-elected to the OASIS Board to serve the
membership of OASIS in supporting the mission of the consortium." 

"OASIS has played an important role in the development of Web services
standards and hosts a number of technical committees working on a broad
range of specifications for e-business," said Jeff Mischkinsky, Director of
Web Services Standards for Oracle Corporation. "Oracle has always been
committed to promoting interoperability based on open industry standards,
and I am pleased to continue serving on the OASIS Board of Directors toward
that end."

On behalf of the OASIS membership, Patrick Gannon expressed appreciation to
departing Board member, Laura Walker, and departing TAB members, Derek
Coleman of Hewlett Packard, Chet Ensign of LexisNexis, Jackson He of Intel,
and Krishna Sankar of Cisco Systems, for their service and guidance over the
past two years.


About OASIS:
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set
the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly
designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The
consortium produces open standards for Web services, security, e-business,
and standardization efforts in the public sector and for
application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 3,000
participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in
100 countries. Approved OASIS Standards include AVDL, CAP, DocBook, DSML,
ebXML, SAML, SPML, UDDI, WSRP, WSS, XACML, and XCBF. 
http://www.oasis-open.org


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Carol Geyer
OASIS Director of Communications
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
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