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Joe Gollner, Vice President Enterprise Solutions for Stilo North AmericaJoe Gollner, Vice President Enterprise Solutions for Stilo North America

Joe Gollner is the Vice President Enterprise Solutions for Stilo North America where he leads active efforts to address enterprise content processing requirements through the deployment of such standards as DITA and e-Publishing solutions that leverage Stilo's OmniMark content processing platform.

Starting as a graduate student trying in 1987 to leverage technology for the analysis of historical documents, Mr. Gollner has been an advocate of SGML and its various descendants, including XML, for well over fifteen years. Accused in 1995 of being the only person making money in the SGML community, he remains unrepentant and continues to champion the necessity of deriving tangible business benefits from the judicious deployment

 

of open standards. Mr. Gollner has successfully managed a vast number of XML and SGML implementations during his career and done so in every conceivable market sector. His work in the military and aerospace communities in the 1990s remains a benchmark against which large scale deployments of multi-enterprise interchange protocols can be measured.

An early promoter of XML and the critical role it can play in managing enterprise technology investments, he acted for many years as the chair of the XML World series of conferences. A former Artillery officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, he was educated in a variety of subjects at Queen's University (Mathematics and Literature) and the University of Oxford (Master's of Philosophy).