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Members Join OASIS Board Of Directors, Technical Advisory Board

OASIS, the international standards consortium, 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 a two-year term.

DeNicola, Cobb, Evans, Hirsch and Mischkinsky join existing directors whose seats expire in 2005: John Borras of the U.K. 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.

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.