Peter Benson

Mr. Peter Benson is the Founder and Executive Director of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA).

Peter is an expert in distributed information systems, content encoding and master data management. He designed one of the very first commercial electronic mail software applications, WordStar Messenger and was granted a landmark British patent in 1992 covering the use of electronic mail systems to maintain distributed databases.

Peter designed and oversaw the development of a number of strategic distributed database management systems used extensively in the UK and US by the Public Relations and Media Industries. From 1994 to 1998, Peter served as the elected chairman of the American National Standards Institute Accredited Committee ANSI ASCX 12E, the Standards Committee responsible for the development and maintenance of EDI standard for product data.

Peter is known for the design, development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an internationally recognized commodity classification and more recently for the design of the eOTD, an internationally recognized open technical dictionary based on the NATO codification system.

Peter is the Project Leader for ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 as well as the ISO TC184/SC 4 Quality Committee convener. He is an expert in the development and maintenance of Master Data Quality as well as an internationally recognized proponent of Open Standards that he believes are critical to protect data assets from the applications used to create and manipulate them.

Peter Benson holds a French Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Physics, a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and a Master’s degree in Marketing from London University. Peter has four children and lives in Pennsylvania.

Sheron Koshy

Sheron is currently the Chief Technical Officer and President of ECCMA India. He has been working with the development and maintenance of cataloging standards, implementation of these standards in cataloging projects and development of customized cataloging applications for the last 20 years. Beyond his responsibilities in the day to day management of ECCMA India, he is an expert in the design and development of computer assisted cataloging solutions designed for large volume outsourced cataloging.

He has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Engineering and a Masters Degree in Technology from the Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.

Justin Magruder

Justin Magruder is President at Noetic. His specialties are customer insights and predictive analytics, product design and analytics, market data, low latency data, making big data seem small, data warehouse design, reference & master data management & architecture for collateral management, client & counterparty, product, instrument, pricing, data quality management, flow, profiling & processing, market data analysis, selection and sourcing, meta data management, ETL architecture, transaction data management, financial market data, financial transaction process management.

Hayley Thompson

Hayley Thompson is ECCMA’s Standards and Administrative Director. She is a US expert to and Convenor for ISO/TC 184/SC 05 (Interoperability, integration, and architectures for enterprise systems and automation applications) Working Group 16 (Supply Chain Interoperability and Integration – SCII) as well as a US expert to ISO/TC 184/SC 04 (industrial data) Working Group 13 (data quality) and Working Group 23 (terminology) where she is also the Deputy Convenor. She is also the Vice Chair of ANSI/TAG to ISO/TC 184/SC 04 (industrial data). She is a specialist on government and politics at both national and international levels, with experience as the instructor on record at American and European universities, including for Rutgers University, New York University – School of Professional Studies, among others. Hayley has taught university students how to design research projects, find and produce quality data, and analyze and interpret the meaning of the data. She is an author of peer-reviewed publications. Her university studies took place in the United States, South America, and Europe.

Ronald Tse

Ronald Tse is the Founder and CEO of Ribose, leading strategic development and its technology roadmap. He graduated from Brown University with bachelor’s degrees magna cum laude in Computer Science and Biology, and a master’s degree in Computer Science.

His mission is to bring peace of mind to organizations and individuals alike by helping them protect their data through the application of security and privacy technology. Previous to Ribose, Ronald worked in the life sciences industry and on highly-scalable distributed systems at Brown and MIT.

Ronald is a Director of the Board and the Director of External Relationships at CalConnect, the Founding Chair of the CSA SaaS Governance working group and Co-chair of the CalConnect TC VCARD (digital contact exchange) committee, an expert delegate to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 committee, a liaison representative of CalConnect to ISO TC 211, and a voting member of the CSA International Standardization Council. He also represents Hong Kong at China’s National Information Security Standards Committee (TC 260) at CESI and the Hong Kong/Guangdong Informatisation Committee.

He is an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy, a member of Sigma Xi, a CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP, CAP, SSCP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, PSM I-II-III, PSPO I-II, PSD, CCIE Emeritus #9650 and a lead auditor in ISO/IEC 27001.

Joseph A. Yacura

Joseph A. Yacura has approximately 40 years of supply chain work experience. He has worked at various companies including, but not limited to, IBM, Bank of America, Pacific Bell, American Express, and Frannie Mae. In addition to his work experience, Mr. Yacura has researched, written, served as an editor, and presented extensively on data quality and governance topics, and has published over 60 articles in supply chain management professional magazines. He is the founder and CEO of Supply Chain Management, LLC, and the founder of a new education-focused organization, International Association of Data Quality, Governance and Analytics (https://www.iadqga.com/about-us).

Mr. Yacura’s strength has been in providing leadership and oversight in the creation and/or re-engineering of complex global businesses. Through extensive collaboration with internal business units and suppliers, he has been able to create scalable and sustainable cost savings, improved supplier quality/performance, mitigated third party risk, improved internal customer satisfaction and process efficiencies (end-to-end solutions). These solutions and innovations were designed to align with the overall business strategies to optimize total value through cross functional collaboration. He also has considerable experience in leading complex digitization of supply chains utilizing advanced analytics and data driven autonomous decision-making technology.

Frank Fitzsimmons

Adelphi Capital, LLC

Bern Werner

Bern Werner is currently the Vice President of Implementation Services at Salar, Inc. He joined Salar in 2005 to manage an electronic physician documentation system at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of the nation’s top-ranked health care systems. Mr. Werner is responsible for business development, project execution and customer relationships. He has 20 years of experience in health care solutions and data warehousing. His technical career began as a Marine Corps officer, where he was responsible for testing and instructing users on a new command and control system.

In 1994, after leaving the military, Bern joined Management Science Associates and was involved in the implementation of a large Supply Chain data management system for a Fortune 10 consumer packaged goods (CPG) customer. The system involved the collection, cleaning, and data warehousing of store-level purchase information for large CPG companies.

In 1998, Mr. Werner co-founded Innovative Resource Group, Inc. (IRG), an information management business which grew to more than 150 employees in three years, while maintaining both profits and revenue growth. IRG was purchased and then merged with iGate Global Solutions Ltd (IGS), an independent operating company of iGate Corporation. Bern is a 1988 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Bern has extensive experience in healthcare software, data warehousing, and has consulted with banking and retail clients on large-scale CRM implementations. He can be reached at bwerner@artifacthealth.com

Don Brown

PartNET

Larry Barth

Vermont Energy Investment Corp