(This message is sent on the behalf of Matthew Gardiner, President of Kantara Initiative)
Colleagues of the Kantara Initiative
Greetings from Munich
Germany where I was attending the European Identity Conference 2010. A
number of other Kantara folk were also in attendance. As my first note
to the community as Kantara president I want to take this opportunity
to update you on some changes that have taken place recently within the
initiative. Firstly, we have just said goodbye to a number of
colleagues of longstanding, namely the Rogers (both Sullivan &
Martin) and Bill Smith. Roger Sullivan has retired from Oracle and
thus simultaneously retired from his position as Kantara President and
as a member of the BoT. Roger Martin has finished up his duties as
Interim ED after previously finishing up as AOL’s member of the BoT.
Also with the official phase out of the Liberty Alliance, Bill Smith
has finished his duties as the Liberty representative to the BoT. They
all are doing well and wish Kantara nothing but success. I thank them
for their work over the years.
So those are the goodbyes, what about the hellos?
As the sitting VP of Kantara I automatically take over as President and serve out the remaining term for calendar 2010.
We have just restructured the Kantara staff, promoting Joni to
Managing Director of Kantara with the entire Kantara staff reporting to
her. We also have opened up a spot for a new staff person that will
take over some of Joni’s responsibilities in the role of Technical
Program Coordinator (if you have ideas for someone for this role,
please pass them to Joni). Given this change in Joni’s
responsibilities we have suspended our search for a new ED. We think
this new structure will be effective in moving Kantara forward.
Roger Sullivan will be replaced on the BoT by his former colleague at Oracle, Vadim Lander.
Lucy Lynch who is currently on the BoT from ISOC and is the
Secretary of Kantara is also taking on the role of Treasurer from Roger
Martin. Thanks to Lucy.
IEEE-ISTO (Kantara’s parent organization) is expanding their
support role of Kantara to include both financial services as well as
marketing support.
The bottom line is we think this structure and approach continues
to position us well to do well for the identity industry and our
members.
One final thought for now…please encourage others both
inside and outside your organization to participate in the
working/discussion groups, become full members, as well as take part in
the interoperability and assurance programs, as we literally need to
bring the community together to take the industry forward faster.
Best Regards, Matthew Gardiner
Matthew Gardiner Director of Product Marketing Security & Compliance BU CA, Inc. matthew.gardiner@ca.com 508-628-8598