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 Richard
Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group, Inc.
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of the Object Management Group, Inc.
(OMG).
Dr. Soley is responsible for the overall strategic business
& technical direction of OMG, the largest consortium of its kind.
A visionary with over two decades of experience in the field of information
technology, Dr. Soley presides over a constantly growing standardization
program encompassing both infrastructure standards like the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and
vertical-market standards efforts in Telecommunications, Healthcare, Manufacturing,
Finance, Insurance, Space Systems, Life Sciences Research and many other
areas.
From the founding of the OMG in 1989 until his promotion to CEO in 1997,
Dr. Soley was the organization's first Vice  President
& Technical Director, defining the vision and direction of the consortium
from the outset. Dr. Soley was instrumental in OMG's adoption of both
CORBA and UML, and in the creation of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
in 2000.
Before joining OMG, Dr. Soley was involved in a series of start-up companies
including Gold Hill Computers, Symbolics, PictureTel and others, and was the
cofounder and Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the first Intel
386 product, the 386 HummingBoard. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM,
Motorola, Texas Instruments, and other leading technology companies as well as
venture capital firms.
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.
Richard Mark Soley
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