Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG ®, Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium and Executive Director of the Digital Twin Consortiuam.
As Chairman and CEO
of OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of
the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the
nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the
development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and
the original CORBA�
specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical
market standards (starting with healthcare, finance,
telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading
first to the Unified Modeling
Language
TM (UML�) and later the
Model Driven Architecture�
(MDA�). He also led the effort to establish the
SOA Consortium in
January 2007, leading to the launch of the
Business Ecology
Initiative (BEI) in 2009. The Initiative focuses on the management imperative to make
business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure in a complex, networked world, through practice areas including Business Design, Business Process Excellence, Intelligent Business, Sustainable Business and Secure Business. In addition, Dr. Soley is the Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, helping end-users transition to cloud computing and direct requirements and priorities for cloud standards throughout the industry. In 2014, Dr. Soley helped found the Industrial Internet Consortium and (IIC) serves as Executive Director of the organization. The IIC was formed to accelerate the development, adoption and wide-spread use of interconnected machines and devices, intelligent analytics, and people at work. The members of the IIC catalyze and coordinate the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet.
Dr. Soley also serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. He is an active angel investor, and was involved in the creation of both the Eclipse Foundation and Open Health Tools.
Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A longer biography is available here, and Dr. Soley's complete CV is available on request. A shorter version is available here.
Richard Mark Soley
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Object Management Group, Inc.
109 Highland Avenue
Third Floor
Needham, MA 02494
U.S.A.
tel: +1-781-444 0404
fax: +1-781-444 0320
email: [email protected]
web: http://www.omg.org/~soley
