About OFE - Biogs
Graham Taylor - Chief Executive
Graham Taylor is Chief Executive of OpenForum Europe, and a co-founder of the organisation. A regular speaker at international conferences, he was invited by the European Commission and Portuguese Presidency to respond to the Declaration made at the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon in 2007, and succeeded in getting 27 other European organisations from the 'Open Community' to be co-signatories to that Statement.
With some 30 years of experience in the ICT industry, prior to OFE Graham Taylor was a Director at ICL, most recently as Managing Director of the Smart Card business, but with spells as its Software Business Development Manager, and Director of The Solution Centre, ICL's centre for the management of complex integration projects.
Bob Blatchford - Chief Operating Officer
Bob has spent over thirty years in the IT Industry, 23 of them within the insurance sector. Whilst with Lloyd’s of London he worked with emerging technologies, cross discipline projects and commercialisation of internal IT services.
Bob has held a number of senior management roles during his career, with responsibility for IT, telecommunications, business development, strategic planning, electronic trading, commercial activities and the development and introduction of Internet based services for markets. He has managed the delivery of a number of successful major projects for the London insurance market.
Bob also has had a long-term involvement and strong interest in the introduction of e-commerce and e-trading initiatives in the London Insurance Market. He was a founding member of both LIMNET (London Insurance Market Network) and LNSG (Lloyd’s Network Steering Group) and has been active on a number of national and international committees encouraging and enabling the development of business to business e-commerce and standards.
Basil Cousins - Director
Basil Cousins is co-founder and Director of OpenForum Europe (OFE). Over the past two years, he has led the ODF campaign in Europe and is responsible for developing the role of OFE in the UK. A Secretary to the OFE Executive Council and OFE Board, he also provides the secretariat for the highly successful OFE SIGs, Basil has had 40 years experience in the ICT industry.
As DP Manager of Costain, he
set up and ran Computel, an ICL based timesharing bureau owned by Costain and
Mowlem. As Head of Software Engineering, ICL ASD he was instrumental in the
foundation of X/Open and the publication in June 1984 of the first portability
guide based on AT&T Unix System V. He then headed up Olivetti UK Public
Relations until 1994 when as a member of the CBI London Region Council, he
launched LondonLInk in association with Nomura, Lloyds of London, Bird &
Bird, Citigroup and others. He is Honorary Secretary of the Ethical Panel of
the Information Technologists Panel and Honorary
Treasurer of the Real Time Club.
Sachiko Muto - Director
Biog to be added
Paul Meller - Director Research & Communications
Paul Meller joined OFE in May 2010 after a 20 year-long career in
journalism. He helps OFE get its message out to reporters and uses his
writing skills to hone the organization's message to policymakers as
well as to OFE members, partners and collaborators from the IT
industry. He has also been instrumental in setting up Openforum
Academy, a think tank and sister organization to OFE. Prior to joining
OFE Paul spent 15 years in Brussels covering European Union
competition, internal market, intellectual property, trade and economic
policy for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, the
Dow Jones news agency and specialist publishers International Data
Group, the European Voice and Science Business Publishing. Before
moving to Brussels Paul wrote about the birth of
capitalism in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe. As a
freelance journalist he traveled to Warsaw, Moscow, Budapest, Prague,
Kiev and Sarajevo between 1989 and 1996. His articles appeared in
The
Guardian,
The
Sunday Times
and USA
Today
newspapers
and in British business magazines. He started his career in
journalism working for trade magazines in the advertising industry,
and freelancing for British tabloids, The
Daily Mirror
and Today.
Morten Kjærsgaard (born 1968) is the founder of the open source company
Magenta and has led the company since 1999. He is furthermore chairman
of OSL, the Danish Association for Open Source Business, which he
co-founded in 2003 and is also an OFE Member.
OSL was founded in December 2003 and has since worked to promote a
genuine market based choice between different types of software
development and licensing in order to make the choice of open source
software based on quality, price and suitability. The association is
working to secure a genuine choice of IT-architecture in the public as well as the private sector in Denmark.
In 2007 OSL co-founded the OpenNordic network. Morten Kjærsgaard holds a Master in Political Science.
Trond Arne Undheim is the Director of Standards
Strategy and Policy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (the EMEA region) for
Oracle Corporation. He writes the weekly blog Trond's Opening Standard,
chairs the OFE Standardization Interest Group,
and participates in the CEN/ISSS European e-Business Interoperability Forum.
He has worked at the European Commission where he led ePractice.eu, the good practice
initiative. He speaks six languages, has co-founded several start-ups including
a think tank and a consulting firm. He obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology
Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and lives in London. Trond
recently published the book Leadership From Below .
He is also the founding Editor of the European Journal of ePractice ,
reaching thousands of decision makers in public and private sector across the
world. Trond can be reached via LinkedIn,
his corporate blog, Trond's Opening Standard or
through his Facebook discussion group.
For published articles, see here
for speeches, see the Slideshare profile.
2007-2012
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