Richard Mark Soley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG).

In this position, Dr. Soley oversees all of the operations of the leading industry consortium detailing and publicizing standards in distributed systems using object-oriented development and execution environments.

In addition, Dr. Soley is an active part of OMG's conference and seminar planning as an advisor to Softbank COMDEX's Object World subsidiary, and also serves on the editorial board of the OMG-sponsored DOC Magazine.

Dr. Soley, until September 1997 Vice President and Technical Director of the OMG since its founding, is also Acting Technical Director of the Group, overseeing the OMG Technology Committees, which are responsible for producing standards documents, adopting OMG-standard technology, and proposal of new technology to the OMG membership and the OMG Board of Directors. In this capacity Dr. Soley directs the efforts of the 1000+ member Technology Committees and their more than twenty working groups, made up of representatives of all OMG member companies.

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.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.