Dr. Richard Soley
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Object Management Group (OMG), Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium and Executive Director of the Digital Twin Consortium. Dr. Soley led the development of the original CORBA® specification, Unified Modeling Language™ (UML), Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and various vertical market standards. He serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. He is an active angel investor and was involved in the creation of both the Eclipse Foundation and Open Health Tools. 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. Dr. Soley holds SB, SM and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He serves as Visiting or Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Curtin University in Perth, Australia, Colorado State University and Wuhan University. He is also a Founding Member of the Boston CTO Club and a Member of the New York City CTO Club. Dr. Soley may be reached via Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/soley/.
