Name: Eric Newcomer
Company: IONA
Job Title: Chief Technology Officer
Bio: n his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as IONA's product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design.
Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.
Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is also a former editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author and editor of the recently published Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) set of specifications and co-chair of the WS-CAF technical committee at OASIS.