1998-1999 EMA Board of Directors

Messaging Magazine
Welcomes the 1998-1999 EMA Board of Directors
(Originally published in Messaging Magazine, November/December 1998)

The EMA Board of Directors is the senior policy-making body of the Association; and as such it is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the organization’s support of the electronic messaging industry. Companies are elected to two-year terms on the fifteen-seat Board by the designated representative of each member company. (The companies nominated for the Board will select a company representative who will serve if elected). Roughly half the seats are up for election each year.

New Board Seats Elected to Two-Year Terms Are:

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Compaq Computer Corporation:
Roger Mizumori,
Technical Director

Roger Mizumori has served EMA in the past as Vice Chair, Board member, Infrastructure Coordinator of Challenge ’97, and speaker, and is still actively involved with numerous committee activities. He is actively involved in Compaq/Digital’s Electronic Messaging & Collaboration Program marketing and development efforts. Additionally, as Senior Product Manager, he facilitates collaboration of internal development groups with Compaq/Digital’s partners. With 17 years service at Boeing, Mr. Mizumori has seen the evolution of messaging since 1983. He has also been published in numerous books and industry journals.
     Mr. Mizumori sees EMA as an organization in transition. It must continue to provide leadership in resolving issues facing the industry, improving communication and integration for individuals and companies around the globe. It must also drive the industry to the next level of business application integration.
     Compaq/Digital has been providing electronic messaging services to over 15 million users for over 18 years and is forging new relationships in the industry to further help deliver new electronic messaging networks to customers throughout the world. Compaq/Digital has been actively involved with EMA since its inception. Compaq/Digital represents its views at EMA as a developer of electronic messaging solutions, as an end user and as a consultancy.

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Control Data Systems, Inc.:
David Folsom,
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Dave Folsom leads the Electronic Commerce Technologies Solutions unit of Control Data Systems, Inc. One of his key strengths is in leading organizational transition, having helped Control Data’s technology divisions accomplish this task every 2–3 years for the last 15 years. He also brings a wealth of expertise in using new technologies to solve business problems and justifying them through better business practices.
Mr. Folsom’s vision for the Board includes continuing to expand from a pure messaging focus into the new areas of electronic commerce and collaborative computing using the Internet as a standard means of communicating. He feels that instead of mirroring what the industry is doing, the Board should be out front shaping the direction the industry will take on a worldwide basis. He further feels that the Board should be influencers of government policies in related areas and have active programs with related EMA groups in Europe and Asia.
Control Data has been a member of EMA for 8 years and its employees have been speakers/exhibitors at EMA conferences and special events. CDS was an integral part of the messaging, X.500 and recent security interoperability testing. Several Control Data mangers/key technologists have led various EMA committees.

Credit Suisse First Boston:
Clark Loffman,
Vice President, Global Messaging
Clark Loffman has been involved with messaging at CSFB for the past 5 years. He has been involved in providing cross platform connectivity of e-mail systems across the company, bringing together approximately 50,000 users into a single directory. Most recently he has managed the global production e-mail environments consisting of several different e-mail platforms communicating via a single messaging switch. Through his perseverance, the firm this year is moving towards a single messaging platform world wide that will allow better communication, easier file sharing and allow for future development of workflow applications. Future projects that Mr. Loffman will play a major roll in include a re-design of the companies directory, that will allow not only messaging applications but other applications (HR, Trading, Legal) to take advantage of the directory information.

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Intel Corporation:
Mark Smith,
Business Manager, Middleware

Mark Smith has been with Intel for 14 years, holding positions in R&D, Marketing, and Corporate Strategy. Both Mr. Smith and Intel have been active in the EMA and the messaging industry for many years. He currently represents Intel as a member of the Executive Committee of the EMA Board of Directors. His experience and leadership will continue to help guide the EMA in the coming years.
     Through innovative technologies, Intel is committed to improving the Internet/ Intranet and workgroup computing experience for business PC consumers. Today’s corporations rely on close cooperation of the PC desktop and server industry, software vendors, providers of communications services, and standards bodies such as the EMA. Intel’s vendor-neutral leadership is facilitating rapid integration and standardization of messaging, groupware, and Web technologies.
     Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking, and communications products. Intel architecture-based servers support over 50 million e-mail users worldwide.

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Lucent Technologies, Inc.:
Terri L. Brown,
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances and Solutions

Terri Brown has been working in the fields of voice and data communications for 14 years. Her experience in marketing, international business development and strategy with Hewlett-Packard, Aspect Telecommunications and Octel, coupled with her vision and enthusiasm for unified messaging, will make Ms. Brown an outstanding member of the EMA Board. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
     Lucent Technologies and Octel Messaging Division have a long history of membership and volunteerism with EMA. Both have been active in the Voice Messaging Committee; Octel Messaging Division of Lucent Technologies (OMD) is a co-author of the VPIM specification developed by this committee. OMD is a pioneer in the field of unified messaging, which has the potential of revolutionizing the way people access and manage voicemail and e-mail communications. Through Ms. Brown’s leadership, Lucent will contribute to shaping the future of messaging and unified communications through the EMA.
     The OMD develops, markets and provisions voicemail systems and services. OMD is the world leader in voice messaging applications with more than 110 million voice mailboxes installed for businesses, governments, institutions, telephone companies and wireless service providers in more than 90 countries.

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The Boeing Company:
Lisa M. Pratt,
Messaging Specialist

Lisa Pratt has 17 years of experience in the Electronic Communication industry and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Chapman University. She is a specialist at developing a messaging architecture, direction, planning, and implementing messaging services for The Boeing Company. Currently, she is focused on deploying a next generation client/ server messaging solution that will serve 80,000 users. She is active in the EMA work groups, EMA committees, IETF workgroups, and currently serves on the EMA Board of Directors.
Lisa brings a perspective that large end-user corporations need today as they deploy state of the art electronic communication technologies. She advocates that EMA can shape the electronic communication future by placing needs of the end user at the forefront of the evolution and working together with technology providers, policy makers, and standards bodies.

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U.S. Treasury Department:
Michèle Rubenstein,
Messaging Program Director

Michèle Rubenstein’s contributions to the Board and to EMA have included participation in and support of Board work, actions, and committee activities. The Department of the Treasury is committed to and strongly supports the work within EMA. To that effect, Ms. Rubenstein has been a Board member for the past two years, and serves as Co-Chair of the Interoperability and EC Committee and as
Co-Chair of Challenge ‘99.
Ms. Rubenstein feels it is extremely important to champion the needs and requirements of the user communities. Additionally, it is important to advocate to and work closely with the provider/vendor and consultant communities to achieve those needs and to make implementation of those requirements possible. As an employee of an extremely diverse user organization made up of 14 different business units, she also has the unique advantage of supporting both small and very large entities, each with unique requirements in messaging, EC, networking, directories, etc.

Continuing Directors Whose Terms Expire in 1999 Are:

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Creative Networks, Inc.:
Dr. Ronald M. Rassner,
Vice President, Consulting

Ron Rassner is Vice President of Consulting at Creative Networks. Dr. Rassner’s career experience is in the intranet and collaborative computing environments, with emphases on cost/ value analysis, electronic commerce and knowledge management. He is the past chairperson of the EMA’s Emerging Technologies and LAN Messaging Technologies Committees with oversight responsibility for new and emerging technologies, and publications and work regarding host-LAN migration, gateway testing, naming conventions, LAN storage policies and other message reliant application initiatives.
Mr. Rassner speaks frequently at industry events and contributes regularly to trade publications. Recent speaking engagements include EMA and EEMA (European Electronic Messaging Association), Internet Expo, GroupWare, ICE, INTEROP+NetWorld, UNIX EXPO, DECUS, PCEXPO and vendor-specific conferences.

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Exxon Corporation:
Durwin Sharp,
Global Technology Architect

Durwin Sharp has represented Exxon for the past six years, and has recently served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. He is active in the Government Affairs Committee, having represented EMA in meetings with U.S. Congressional Staff, and in the Interoperability and EC Committees, working toward interoperable infrastructure components including security and directories. Mr. Sharp was
a primary driver in bringing Thinking Expeditions to EMA to energize and enhance the productivity of committees and work groups. He continually looks to strengthen EMA in its unique combination of users, vendors, and consultants, and to broaden its influence through collaboration with other organizations and associations.
     Mr. Sharp has responsibility for Exxon’s electronic commerce architecture and direction, ensuring that Exxon’s infrastructure will continue to support business objectives into the future. He has been at Exxon seventeen years, with management responsibilities in application development and support, industry analysis, and operation of a worldwide computing network. Before joining Exxon, he was an independent consultant and a professor of management.
     Exxon has been an active participant in EMA for many years, supporting its role as the premier messaging industry forum for user/vendor cooperation on issues ranging from interoperability standards to government regulation.

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Lockheed Martin Corporation:
Catherine M. Forth,
Director of Telecommunications

Catherine Forth is Director of Telecommunications, in the Enterprise Information Systems Company at Lockheed Martin Corporation. She is responsible for the voice, video and data communications infrastructure and services for the Lockheed Martin. Ms. Forth’s responsibilities include the integration and management of a diverse messaging environment and consolidation of heritage e-mail systems accrued by the mergers of Lockheed, Martin Marietta and Loral. A new integrated messaging system is being designed and deployed at Lockheed Martin to enable over 100,000 users worldwide to effectively and reliably exchange vital information. She has responsibility to assure cost effective, quality, value-added business telecommunications and e-messaging services.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Forth obtained 15 years of progressive technical and managerial experience in the application of Information Technology to meet business needs at GE’s Research & Development, GE Aerospace, Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin. She has extensive skills in technical computing and infrastructure design, project planning and implementation, large scale systems management and design, team development and customer relations and business support in both local and geographically dispersed environments.
Ms. Forth currently sits the on Lockheed Martin Information Architecture Board.

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Lotus Development Corporation:
Eric E. Faunce,
Director of Marketing

Eric Faunce is the Director of Marketing for Document Management and Imaging Products, where he is responsible for overall marketing messages in this product segment. Mr. Faunce joined Lotus Development in 1994 as a result of the Soft•Switch acquisition, where he held a variety of positions in marketing, field and development organizations.
     Prior to joining the Document Management and Imaging Products group, Mr. Faunce was Director of Worldwide Messaging Marketing, where he was a leader in worldwide product marketing of the Lotus Notes and Domino product lines as messaging solutions. Before joining Lotus, Mr. Faunce was Vice President, Communications, at the Electronic Messaging Association, responsible for marketing, com- munications, and committee activities.
     Mr. Faunce has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, sales and development of computer networking products and services. He speaks extensively at Industry events, and has published a number of papers and articles.
     Mr. Faunce holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, from LaSalle University, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Villanova University.

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MCI WorldCom:
Martha Hanlon,
Director, Enterprise Access and Applications Marketing

Martha Hanlon is the current Chair on the EMA Board of Directors, and has been in the telecommunications industry for 16 years, with four years dedicated to developing and marketing Application services, including MCI Exchange Messages Services, MCI Mail, EDI*Net, X.400 and mailhub services. She has created the company strategy to pursue electronic commerce solutions for large businesses, and supported the company’s recent entries into electronic commerce for small businesses and at-home consumers. Ms. Hanlon has an MBA in Marketing from The Wharton School.
MCI is a founding member of EMA and a network industry leader in messaging and electronic communication services. It was one of the first in the industry to develop a public e-mail service, MCI Mail. Since that time, MCI has expanded its services as market needs have grown and changed—Managed Exchange services, web-hosting, electronic commerce, X.400, LAN gateways, and Internet access, developed for consumer, business, and international users.

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Mpact Immedia, Inc.:
Kathy Carlson,
General Manager,
Messaging and Electronic Commerce Services

Kathy Carlson is a General Manager-Market Development in the business unit responsible for Electronic Business in Mpact Immedia. In this role Kathy leads the team that is responsible for the market strategy and sales for national (except Quebec) Business Internet and Electronic Commerce offerings from Bell. Ms. Carlson has been involved in electronic business for the last 15 years holding several positions, including Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, Services Planning, Operations, and Sales Support. She has been actively involved in the EMA since 1988. Initially she participated on committees and then as a Board Director for 3 terms. Ms. Carlson is actively involved in several industry associations and frequently speaks at industry conferences and symposiums in Canada. Ms. Carlson will bring industry and business experience to the Board and she is keenly interested in participating in the transformation of EMA to better influence and meet the needs of this fast growing and evolving industry. Ms. Carlson holds a B.A.Sc. from the University of Ottawa.

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The Burton Group:
Gary Rowe,
Principal

Gary Rowe has been actively involved with the EMA for the past 9 years and was instrumental in founding, and subsequently serving as Chair of the Directories Committee, one of EMA’s most successful committees. Rowe has also authored articles for EMA’s Messaging Magazine, provided several EMA educational seminars and delivered formal presentations at over 20 EMA conferences. He was co-chair of EMA’s 1998 Annual Conference Program Committee. At an industry level, Mr. Rowe is widely considered to be a leading subject-matter expert and has authored or been quoted in over 500 trade press articles.
The Burton Group is an internationally recognized consultancy and publisher providing strategic planning, implementation direction and industry analysis for vendors and users of messaging, groupware, directory, intranet and electronic commerce-related products and services.

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The Radicati Group, Inc.:
Sara Radicati, PhD,
President and Chief Executive Officer

Sara Radicati was one of the leading designers of the X.500 standards for directory services, and has been involved in the design, planning and deployment of messaging and directory service systems for major multi-national organizations for the past 19 years. Dr. Radicati chaired EMA’s Messaging Management Committee 1993-1997 and has been an active contributor to both EMA and EEMA (European Electronic Messaging Association) activities.
Dr. Radicati believes the messaging industry is poised for growth and renewal due to widespread acceptance of Internet technologies, increased consumer participation and growing corporate demand for robust and scalable systems. She feels EMA can play a leading role in shaping these industry transitions by broadening its scope to include a wider range of messaging and collaborative technologies, fostering greater user involvement, and increasing the exchange of ideas between vendors and users.
Dr. Radicati is well known internationally for her text books on X.400 and X.500. Her company, The Radicati Group, Inc. is a leading consulting and market research firm focusing on the deployment of mission critical technologies. The Radicati Group, Inc. is a member of the European EMA, as well as EMA, and has offices in Palo Alto, CA and London, UK.