Speakers & Presentations

 

Richard F E Warburton AO, Chair, Board of Taxation
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Dick Warburton is currently Chairman of Tandou Ltd, Magellan Flagship Fund Ltd and The Board of Taxation. He is a Director of Caltex Australia Ltd, Note Printing Australia, Nufarm Limited and Citigroup Pty Ltd.

He also serves as a Director on the Advisory Board of The Garvan Research Foundation, the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is Chairman (both Australia and International) of theCommonwealth Studies Conference.

Dick is a former Chairman and CEO of Du Pont Australia and New Zealand, and worked with Du Pont for 30 years in marketing, manufacturing, technical and management roles in Australia, USA and Thailand.

Dick was a Board Member of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chairman of Caltex Australia Ltd, David Jones Ltd, Goldfields Ltd and Wool International and a Director of Southcorp Ltd, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd and other companies.

Paul Madden, Programme Manager, Standard Business Reporting, The Treasury
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Paul Madden is the Programme Manager for Standard Business Reporting which is being led from within the Australian Treasury. He is responsible for the overall programme including design, development, stakeholder relationships and management, and implementation. Paul also co-ordinates the work of teams in the other agencies in this multi government agency programme.

Prior to taking up this role, Paul was a First Assistant Commissioner with the Australian Tax Office responsible for the overall design (systems and business process) of a major transformation program, as well as developing business and systems designs to support policy and administrative reforms with a client and staff experience focus.

Within the Tax Office, Paul also had responsibility for Whole of Government service delivery and interoperability, and was the ATO’s Business owner for On-line Security and Authentication Processes. He was a member of the OECD Taxpayer Services Group and was responsible for adoption of open standards for compliance reporting and record keeping.

Paul played a major role as the Project Manager for systems delivery of a major Tax Reform in 2000. He has since led subsequent reform projects and has managed the ATO's overall systems development function.

H.E. Niek van Zutphen, Ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australia
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Personal details: Date of Birth: 6 January 1947
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nationality: Netherlands
Marital Status: Married to E. Miriam Wijsenbeek
Children: Two children

Education:
1972 Law (University of Amsterdam)

Career:
1972 - 1975 European Integration Department – Desk Officer
1975 - 1979 Permanent Representation EC – Assistant to the Ambassador
1979 - 1989 European Integration Department – Head of Section, Deputy Director
1989 - 1992 Madrid – Minister Plenipotentiary
1992 - 1997 Economic Cooperation Department – Director
1997 - 2001 Caracas – Ambassador (also accredited in Dominican Republic)
2001 - 2004 Helsinki – Ambassador
2004 - 2005 Deputy director-general for European Cooperation
2006 - present Ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia
2006 - present Ambassador to Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu with residency in Canberra

Harm Jan van Burg, NTP Project Director, Ministry of Finance
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Harm Jan van Burg (1953) is senior policymaker for the Netherlands Ministry of Finance/ Directorate-General of the tax- and customs administration in The Hague since 1983. He holds a degree in Social Sciences. Harm Jan has been active in different positions in Dutch Civil Service, mostly connected to corporate communications and electronic filing. Among these: Corporate communications, Customs communications, chain management for tax form production and distribution, e-tax services and presently innovation and development. Before the Ministry of Finance he worked for the Dutch post and telecommunications.

During his whole career Harm Jan has been involved in electronic communications. He was responsible for early day's videotext services, the first tax administration website (1995), involved in electronic tax filing and presently is involved with the electronic government in the Netherlands.

Worldwide tax administrations are active and interested in open standards for tax interoperability. Together with OASIS, the world standards organisation for e-commerce standards, the OECD Forum on Tax Administrations took the initiative to form a tax-xml technical committee. Several tax administrations together with major software vendors and accounting firms have joined this committee since 2003. Harm Jan has been promoter and chair of this committee from the start.

In 2003 he was awarded the Dutch XML award for his efforts. Presently he is project director for the national XBRL taxonomy project (Standard Business Reporting) and vice chair of the intergovernmental management-team for the coordination of E-government development in The Netherlands.

Harm Jan van Burg lives in Zoetermeer, a new town near The Hague, with his wife Saskia and their 19 year old son Jesse.

Jan Pasmooij, Manager, ICT Knowledge Centre, Royal NIVRA
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Mr. Jan Pasmooij is Manager ICT Knowledge Center of Royal NIVRA, the Dutch Institute of Certified Accountants in the Netherlands. He has over 20 years’ experience as a Certified financial accountant, IT- and Operational auditor in public practice and government and has published many articles in the area of accountancy and IT-auditing.

Jan also holds a position as deputy Program Director of the Postgraduate IT-auditing Curriculum at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is also is the Chair of XBRL Netherlands, a member of the EC/ISC of XBRL International and the Chair of the International Innovation Network, an organization of 16 accounting institutes world wide that have come together to share innovative ideas, products and services.

Michael Ohata, Chairman, XBRL International, US
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As senior director in Microsoft Finance Operations, Michael Ohata leads Microsoft’s initiatives around Extensible Business Reporting Language, driving a cohesive approach for the support of XBRL in Microsoft products and solutions. He currently serves as Chairman XBRL International, and was the Founding Chair of the XBRL Standards Board that oversees the technical specification development. He regularly presents to Finance leadership audiences, regulatory agencies and at industry conferences speaking on Microsoft’s experiences, and its strategy as it relates to supporting the technology standard.

Michael also works with corporate groups such as field sales & marketing and Information Worker and Dynamics Divisions, providing business development and demonstrating how XBRL can benefit and support integrated reporting and systems through standards adoption.

Prior this role, Michael worked in the Information Worker Division, and developed the Microsoft Office solution for Sarbanes-Oxley. He has also worked in Microsoft Consulting and Worldwide Services, implementing one of the first knowledge management systems for technical consulting.

John Turner, CEO, CoreFiling Limited & Chairman, XBRL International Standards Board
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John Turner is the CEO and co-founder of CoreFiling, which is widely recognised as one of the most important technology vendors and consulting firms in the XBRL space. CoreFiling provides software and services to a range of regulators, institutional investment firms, and government agencies, as well as a number of marquee brands involved in the SEC’s voluntary filing program. CoreFiling is a joint venture of DecisionSoft Limited, a privately held software engineering house and Business Wire, the leading financial news wire service, itself wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway. CoreFiling is headquartered in Oxford in the UK, with offices in New York and Sydney.

John is also a key member of the XBRL International Steering Committee, serving as a Member-at-Large on that body and as the Chair of the XBRL Standards Board, the group of technologists and business specialists that co-ordinate the technical work of the consortium, review it and recommend publication as accepted XBRL standards. He also serves on the Executive Committee of XBRL International.

Prior to the creation of CoreFiling, John led KPMG’s Global XBRL Services Team. Before this he was responsible for data collection and analysis at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, where he led the "Statistics Project" the world’s first regulatory XBRL programme that sought to harmonise financial performance data requirements across APRA, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. John holds degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Queensland.

Malcolm Rodgers, Executive Director Strategy, Australian Securities & Investments Commission
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Malcolm has been with ASIC since 1991. He has worked in a variety of policy and operational roles, including as Director of Regulatory Policy, Executive Director, Policy and Markets Regulation and Executive Director, Regulation.

Malcolm is currently Executive Director, Strategy in ASIC. His responsibilities include strategic planning for all aspects of ASIC's functions, and ASIC's research functions.

He is a member of the Council of Financial Regulators and of AXISS Australia's Regulatory Advisory Committee. He also represents ASIC in international fora such as the International Organisation of Securities Commissions.

Before joining ASIC, Malcolm worked as an academic, as a senior executive in the book industry and as a small business development consultant.

 

David Smith, Commissioner of State Revenue, Queensland Office of State Revenue
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Ian Ewing, Deputy Australian Statistician Macroeconomics and Integration Group
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Ian is the Deputy Australian Statistician responsible for macroeconomic statistics - which includes the national accounts, balance of payments, government finance and prices statistics, innovation statistics, economic analysis and reporting, and the integration of economic statistics.

Since June 2006, Ian has been New South Wales Regional Director, on secondment from Statistics New Zealand. He joined Statistics New Zealand in 1980 as a research officer following eighteen months working in the New Zealand Treasury. Ian has worked principally in business, economic and agricultural statistics, where he has played a major role in shaping statistical strategies and work programmes. Prior to coming to the ABS he was Deputy Government Statistician responsible for Macro-Economic, Regional and Environment Statistics. Ian has an MA from the University of Auckland.

David Blaszkowsky, Director, US Securities & Exchange Commission
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The Securities and Exchange Commission appointed David Blaszkowsky in October to start and lead the new Office of Interactive Disclosure, with responsibilities that include the development of strategies for and implementation of XBRL and other electronic disclosure opportunities.  

David joined the SEC after a private sector career in consulting and financial information, most recently as a director leading several equity research and analytic information businesses for Standard & Poor’s in NY.  

Before that, David was the Director of Strategic Planning and Development for McGraw-Hill’s Construction Information Group (where he also worked on an early industry-specific XML standard), and held financial planning and reengineering roles at Fidelity Investments in Boston. 

David’s earlier career was in management consulting, at McKinsey & Company, as well as at Price Waterhouse and Gemini Consulting.  David trained in economics at the University of Chicago, receiving a BA, and earned his MBA in finance and marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.  David lives, with his wife and 2 daughters, in Boston.

Gareth Jones OBE BA FRSA, Chief Executive, Companies House
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Gareth is Chief Executive of the UK's Companies House and Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. As such, he heads an organisation responsible for registering - and making publicly available - details of all UK limited and public limited companies (currently some 2.5 million). He has worked in a wide variety of posts throughout his 28 year career in the UK Government , including a spell as Private Secretary to a Cabinet Minister in the Margaret Thatcher Government, Director of Environment for Wales in the National Assembly for Wales and Director of Operations for Wales during the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis. He was awarded the OBE in 2003 for services to the National Assembly for Wales.

Gareth is married with 2 children and spends most of his non-work time indulging his passion for good food (and wine), taking holidays (particularly skiing) and following most sports, especially rugby.

Mr Muhammad Hidhir Majid, Deputy Chief Executive, Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore
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Hidhir is the Deputy Chief Executive of the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA), the national regulator of businesses and public accountants.

He holds a Master of Laws Degree and is an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

He joined the Singapore Legal Service after graduation and had served in various appointments in the service before being appointed Deputy Chief Executive of ACRA when ACRA was established on 1 April 2004. He is concurrently the Deputy Registrar of Companies, Businesses and Limited Liability Partnerships as well as the Deputy Registrar of Public Accountants. His area of work focuses on business facilitation, enforcement and providing legal advice to ACRA.

In addition, Hidhir also takes the lead in the major projects undertaken by ACRA. The current XBRL project he is leading is an extension of an earlier Project he led in relation to E-Bizcore, the acronym for the electronic business and corporate entities registration system and the front end internet filing module called Bizfile which were launched in January 2003. E-Bizcore and Bizfile had won both local and international recognition and had significantly contributed towards making Singapore one of the easiest place to do business as well as the quickest place to start one.

Jim Scully, Design Group Manager, NZ Inland Revenue
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Jim joined Inland Revenue four years ago after moving back to New Zealand from Sydney. He is currently responsible for design, project management and business architecture within IR. Jim has a varied skill base spanning mechanical engineering, business development, programming, strategic planning, project management and design. He has worked in a number of industries including: engineering, manufacturing, telecommunications, ICT and government.

While working for Telecom NZ, Jim was involved in the creation of new products, services, processes and businesses. This led to an ongoing interest in enabling New Zealand to become more competitive through smart and innovative design. At EDS, Jim was responsible for the service management of the IT infrastructure for the Commonwealth Bank Group and then ran an Asia Pacific project management team out of Sydney, which was responsible for a number of transitional and transformational initiatives.

During his time at Inland Revenue, Jim and his team have introduced the concept of customer experience design and continue to build a service design capability. He is passionate about designing effective solutions through truly understanding the customer’s world, and the intersection between their needs and the desired business/public outcome.

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Thomas Reinemer, Vice President, Business Development & Professional Services, UBmatrix Inc, US
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Thomas Reinemer is Vice President of Business Development and Professional Services with UBmatrix, widely acknowledged as the leading Software vendor in the XBRL market space. As part of the executive leadership team, Thomas is driving UBmatrix’ global activities in forging partnerships with ISVs, System Integrators, Distribution partners and other market participants.

Thomas Reinemer gained his broad professional experience in the high tech industry at leading companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, Intergraph and Phillips, as well as in a startup environment. His areas of responsibilities included Product Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales Management, Operations and Executive leadership positions in U.S. and International settings.

Thomas holds a degree in Electronic Processing and an advanced degree in Industrial Electronic Processing Equipment from the Friedrich Ebert Technical College in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Peter Williams, Partner, Deloitte and CEO, Deloitte Digital
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Peter Williams is a Partner with Deloitte, CEO of the newly formed Deloitte Digital, and until recently, was CEO of Australia’s largest Online Mobile and Emerging Technology firm, Eclipse. Prior to his time at Deloitte Digital & Eclipse, Peter founded Deloitte’s e-business consulting group in Australia in 1996.

Peter is one of Australia’s thought leaders on Innovation and online, mobile & emerging technology. He has worked with many high profile Australian organisations such as Telstra, CSIRO, Holden, Victorian & Federal Governments and Meat & Livestock Australia. Peter is a sought after commentator on web and technology trends and has featured in many prominent business and web publications.

Peter’s other roles include:

For the past 4 years, since its introduction, Peter has been voted by peers and Deloitte staff as the firm’s most inspirational partner.

Bevan McLeod, Account Director, Deloitte Growth Solutions
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Bevan McLeod is an Account Director in Deloitte Australia's middle market practice known as Deloitte Growth Solutions.

Bevan leads the implementation of XBRL solutions for Deloitte Australia and its clients. His work to date includes the construction of the Deloitte Taxonomy for producing XBRL financial reports for Deloitte clients as well as the design, construction/selection and implementation of supporting applications including a portal based portal based solution to be rolled out in mid 2008.

With a strong interest in emerging technology and being a Certified Practising Accountant, Bevan is a sought after advisor to many of Deloitte’s and its client’s financial information management system projects.

For his work in XBRL, Bevan was recently crowned "The Deloitte Innovator of the Year 2007".

Jason Daniels, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Jason Daniels is a Partner with 13 years experience in the firm. Jason currently leads our XBRL efforts and has been working with XBRL since 2001.

For several years, Jason has led a team responsible for developing and implementing ValueFinancials, PricewaterhouseCoopers best practice financial statement preparation tool.  This is now used by over 250 clients including National Australia Bank, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto as well as several state and federal government agencies for the preparation of audited financial statements. 

Jason works with these clients to streamline their reporting processes and improve the quality of financial statements being produced. 

Jason has also been responsible for two key projects surrounding the use of XBRL within PwC to streamline the preparation of financial statements, work papers and income tax returns.

David Hardidge, Executive Director (Brisbane), Ernst & Young
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David started leading the implementation of XBRL in Australia on behalf of CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants over 7 years ago.  David was formerly the XBRL Australia representative on the XBRL International Steering Committee for two years, and formerly the XBRL Australia Strategy Working Group Co-chair.  David has represented Ernst & Young Australia in the XBRL community since 2000.

David has also contributed to the development of the IASCF IFRS-GP XBRL taxonomy, and the Australian taxonomy.  David assisted in "tagging" the Ernst & Young Global’s Good Group XBRL financial statements.

David is the Brisbane-based representative of the Ernst & Young Technical Consulting Group.  David provides clients with solid advice on accounting implications of complex transactions, including acquisitions, restructures, financial instruments and tax effect accounting.  He specialises in accounting standards and external reporting requirements, with particular emphasis on keeping clients informed of changes and answering their technical questions. 

David brings an element of commercial realism to the interpretation of the requirements of accounting standards.  This approach has been valued by our clients in that the advice is not merely a technical response.

Dr Ken Henry AC, Secretary, The Treasury
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Dr Henry was born in Taree NSW on 27 November 1957. He completed a first class honours degree in economics at the University of NSW in 1979. From February 1980 to September 1984 he was a lecturer in the economics department of the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), where he completed his PhD in 1982. In September 1984 he returned to Australia, accepting a position in Treasury’s Taxation Policy Division. He was a member of the Treasury team that put together the Government's draft White Paper on Tax Reform (published in June 1985) and contributed to the development of the Government’s tax reform package (Reform of the Australian Taxation System, September 1985).

From September 1986 to June 1991, Dr Henry worked as a senior adviser to the Treasurer, providing advice on taxation policy and administration, retirement incomes policy, industry policy and microeconomic reform (including telecommunications reform). In June 1991 he returned to the Treasury, becoming head of the Microeconomic Modelling Unit. In July 1992 he took up the position of Minister (Economic and Financial Affairs) in the Australian Delegation to the OECD in Paris.

Dr Henry returned to the Treasury in January 1994 as head of the Taxation Policy Division. In August 1997 he was appointed Chairman of the Government’s Taxation Task Force, responsible for providing advice to the Government on tax reform options. In October 1998 he was promoted to the position of Executive Director (Deputy Secretary) of Treasury’s Economic Group, and a member of the Treasury Executive Board. In that role he had executive responsibility for domestic macroeconomic policy advice, domestic economic forecasting, and advice on international economic issues (including Australia’s relationship with the multilateral international financial institutions).

On 27 April 2001, Dr Henry was appointed Secretary to the Treasury. Dr Henry was reappointed for a further 5 years from 27 April 2006. He is an ex-officio member of the Board of Taxation, member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Alternate Governor (for Australia) of the International Monetary Fund and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Australian Office of Financial Management.

Dr Henry was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia General Division (AC) in the Australia Day Honours 2007.

Wim Schipper, CEO, GIBO Groep Accountants and Adviseurs
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After studying at the School of Economics in The Hague Wim qualified for Certified Public Auditor in 1989.

Wim worked for Price Waterhouse Coopers from 1983 to 1996 where he was mainly involved with companies operating in an international environment. He specialised in due diligence assignments.

In 1996 Wim joined GIBO Groep and became a board member in 1998. Since 2000 he is particularly responsible for all audit and accounting services. He is involved in the implementation of XBRL within GIBO Groep and a member of the Bank taxonomy working group of the NTP.

Eric E. Cohen, Global XBRL Technical Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Eric E. Cohen is one of the original founders of XBRL, bringing the underlying concepts of XBRL to the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to encourage its development and support. He also is the inventor and ongoing primary architect of XBRL's Global Ledger Framework (XBRL GL). He has served as vice chair and chair of the XBRL GL Working Group, and was the first Chair of the XBRL US Jurisdiction's Steering Committee.

Within XBRL, Mr. Cohen is involved in many working groups; he teaches regularly on behalf of XBRL at XBRL-sponsored and external events. He also acts as an ambassador of XBRL to many other groups, including OASIS, OMG, OECD and the W3C. He has served as the chair of the OASIS Tax XBRL Liaison SC, representing the tax administrators to XBRL, and led the cross-consortium "Interoperability Pledge" effort. In those roles, he has served as an objective advisor to the leaders of many of the major governmental XBRL projects. He is also a named contributor to the XML Encryption Recommendation of the W3C, and continues to explore XML security and XBRL.

PricewaterhouseCooper's Global XBRL Technical Leader, Mr. Cohen works with the Firm's assurance, tax and advisory leadership globally. He provides knowledge support to PwC's XBRL teams to encourage greater participation and understanding of XBRL and related standards (such as Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture, and XML Signature and Encryption) and teaches and trains PwC personnel internationally.

A Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York, he is active in the accounting profession, helping lead the profession in issues related to XBRL. He serves on committees of both AICPA and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) in areas dealing with XBRL's impact on assurance, current and future. He is also involved in XBRL-oriented research with leading academics, especially in the areas of Continuous Auditing and Data Level Assurance, and is a regular participant at academic conferences, including AAA and World Continuous Auditing conference. He is a founder and ongoing supporter of the annual "XBRL Academic Competition".

Mr. Cohen has written hundreds of articles for the business, professional and academic press, and contributed to a number of books in the area of technology. He wrote the first Internet article published in the AICPA's Journal of Accountancy, and authored the first book for accountants about the Internet, the Accountant's Guide to the Internet (John Wiley and Sons).

Mr. Cohen hopes that XBRL GL will help small businesses to operate more efficiently, larger businesses and government agencies to run more integrated, controlled and streamlined business environments, managers and auditors to more efficiently consume and analyze real-time data on an as-needed basis, and enable the seamless audit trail, bringing new transparency and accountability to corporate, governmental and non-profit operations.

Ineke Couwenberg, Marketing Manager, ABAB Groep BV
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Ineke Couwenberg was born in 1967 in Veldhoven in the South of the Netherlands. After finishing high school she went to the University of Wageningen, to study agricultural economics. After graduation she chooses the work at an accounting firm which is specialised in agricultural enterprises, ABAB accountants. She worked in business administration and advising clients and learned about the core business. After that she had different jobs in product-development and marketing. At this moment she is a member of the management team and responsible for the sales in the agricultural market.

ABAB

ABAB Groep is an all-round accountancy and consultancy firm which is fully in motion. We are an important party in small and medium sized companies and one of the biggest in the agricultural sector. ABAB employs over 700 people in 18 offices. The turnover of the firm is 54 million euros of which 28 million is coming out the agricultural business. ABAB aims to be an enterprise that is close to its clients, which is why we have chosen for a horizontal organization, with sweeping de-central responsibilities. As a result of the horizontal organization, the communication distances are shorter and the employees have more responsibilities, which guarantees an inspiring working environment and the ability to adapt to the wishes of individual clients and to take chances that arise. All this gives the employees an inspiring working environment with ample possibilities to develop themselves.

Philip Allen, Chairman, CoreFiling Limited
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Philip is the Chairman and co-founder of CoreFiling and has been working in the XBRL and XML field for many years. In 1997 he founded DecisionSoft which has become the leading tools and services company in the XBRL community. Philip's background is in financial trading and systems. Formerly a trader of financial derivatives, in 1987 he co-founded CATS Software Inc., a software start-up that provided enterprise trading and risk management systems for the capital markets. While at CATS he was responsible for product management, product development and release management, before becoming VP of Client Services in Palo Alto, California. In 1995, CATS launched its IPO, becoming the only company in its sector to achieve a full listing on NASDAQ.

In 1997 Phillip moved to Oxford, in the UK, where he founded DecisionSoft. DecisionSoft counts a number of major UK government departments and regulatory agencies amongst its clients. Philip has an MA degree from Cambridge University.

Ineke Jansen MM, Founder, Marco Polo Platform
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Ms. E.G. (Ineke) Jansen MM (1963) is founder of MP International, a company who specializes in organizing efficient and effective contacts between public and private sector.

Improvement of the relationship between government and business runs like a continuous thread through her professional career. Starting in 1986 at the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, Ineke was researcher and project manager of (international) data exchange.

Since 1995 Ineke was involved, as account- and team-manager, in several projects of the Dutch Tax Office regarding electronic data exchange. In 2002 she joined the Interdepartmental Program Government Desk 2000, being active in advising local councils on themes like multi channeling and citizen driven services.

After almost twenty years in the civil service, in 2003 Ineke started her own business on the Governess concept: building bridges between Government and Businesses.

Since this time she has worked for several governmental projects in the field of reduction of administrative burdens (ICTAL, GEIN-project and NTP). Additionally, clients came (and still come) from the private sector: businesses that depend for their processes and success on good collaboration with governmental organizations.

For businesses with a collective interest in agreements and collaboration with government, Ineke founded Marco Polo Platform in 2005. A strong believer in practical solutions through dialogue and building the (cultural) gap between government and business keeps Ineke going.

Dave van den Ende, Director, Deloitte Consulting Netherlands
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Dave van den Ende is director of Deloitte Consulting Netherlands. The main focus of his career has been on financial and management reporting processes and systems.

During his career, Dave has acquired extensive knowledge and experience with the implementation of performance management processes and systems at many organizations in both the public and private sector. Eventually, his focus at Deloitte shifted to the broader area of finance transformation and management control.

Five years ago his interest for XBRL was born when he was invited to help the Dutch water boards with the organizational aspects of their XBRL implementation.

Today he leads the XBRL initiative at Deloitte Netherlands and is involved in many national and international XBRL related projects.

Paul Snijders, CEO Semansys Technologies BV, Netherlands
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Vice Chair XBRL Netherlands
Founding Board member XBRL in Europe
Member of Intl Assurance Working Group XBRL
Chair Solution workgroup XBRL Netherlands

Paul is co-founder and board member of the Dutch jurisdiction of XBRL International and one of the driving forces behind the global adoption of XBRL. Paul has a background in finance and Accounting and is involved in pragmatic implementations of digital reporting on a daily basis. As member of the International Specification group, chairman of the section Technology of XBRL The Netherlands, member of the Implementation Group of XBRL-UK, the Tools Section of XBRL-Germany and the CRAS workgroup, Paul has gained recognition as an expert in definition and deployment of the standard. Paul was founding board member and director of the 'XBRL in Europe' consortium.

Paul was the initiator of the first XBRL projects in the Europe and involved as coinitiator and project manager Architecture in the Netherlands Taxonomy Project for nation wide implementation of XBRL for all Dutch enterprises.

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David vun Kannon, PricewaterhouseCoopers US
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Ton Karelse RI, Business Development Manager, Quadrant Software
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Ton Karelse has both IT- and a financial background. In 1980, he was co-founder of Quadrant Software, the producer/vendor of 'King'. King is an ERP for small and medium sized businesses and organizations. King and King Online provide full functionality for both the entrepreneur or the administrator and his accountant. This implies export facilities to profit and loss reporting tools, tax reporting tools, etc. The former ASCII format has been replaced by XML, of course. For accountants, King can export general ledger data to the 'Audit File'.

Ton is also a member of the board of The Netherlands Association of Registered Information Scientists 'VRI'. The VRI is known for its Code of Ethics and its Rules of Conduct. Members are Registerinformaticus (RI).

In 2004, the 'ICTAL' project was launched in the Netherlands: ICT and administratieve lastenverlichting, or ICT and reducing administrative and regulatory burdens. Quadrant Software (and Ton) were participants from day 1.

In 2005, Quadrant was also partner in the project EGS, elektronisch gestandaardiseerde statistiekuitvraging, electronic standardised exchange of statistics in retail.

In 2005, Quadrant was one of the first to offer electronic VAT reporting, as a standard feature in King. It should be hardly a surprise that Quadrant offers the XBRL format for export from King.

Trevor Pyman, Director & CEO, XBRL Australia Ltd
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Trevor is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Western Australia. He is currently a Director and CEO of XBRL Australia Ltd and an independent consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sinclair Knight Merz.

Trevor's involvement with XBRL began in the late 1990’s as part of his eBusiness Manager role with Merrill Lynch and on various ICAA committees. In 2000 he was invited onto the board of XBRL Australia Limited, and contracted to manage the promotion and development of the standard from an Australian perspective, which continues to this day.

He has been involved in Public Sector standardisation efforts in Australia at the municipal, State and Federal level. He managed the development of the Australian National Annual Reporting Extension to the IFRS XBRL Taxonomy. He was also involved in aspects of the SBR Business Case Development. He project managed the Victorian EasyBiz Extension Project to completion, which links Federal, State and Municipal agencies together to streamline the application process for licenses, permits and registrations for small and home-based businesses.

Mike Rowling, Solution Architect, Lotus Software, IBM Software Group
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Mike Rowling is a Solution Architect within IBM Lotus Business Development. His focus is on industry standards and person to machine interaction in the context of SOA.

Mike has been working in the XBRL community to understand how this key standard applies to human interaction and financial reporting in general. Mike was formerly with PureEdge Solutions before the acquisition of PureEdge by IBM in 2005. He was responsible for supporting the Business Development team on Strategic Alliances with IBM, and other strategic partners.

Mike's career at PureEdge began in the Product Development team including roles as a Senior Architect, and Technical Product Manager.  

Mike has been responsible for a variety of enterprise automation systems in the Energy Management, Fuel Cell, and Enterprise Resource Planning industries.  

Mike received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Karin Cheung, Project Manager, Professional Services Team, UBmatrix Inc
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Karin Cheung is a Project Manager in the Professional Services team of UBmatrix, widely acknowledged as the leading Software vendor in the XBRL market space.  'Product Strategy ManagerAt UBmatrix, Karin is involved in solutions architect work, project management, and XBRL/UBmatrix product training for various projects around the world.

Before arriving at UBmatrix, Karin Cheung worked for 5 years at Oracle Corporation in XML Metadata Services, Collaboration Suite, and Global Sales Support teams.  Areas of responsibility have ranged from development, product management, and solutions architecture working in a global environment.

Karin holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Josef Macdonald, Associate Director, XBRL Advisory Services, Ernst & Young Global Professional Practice Group, UK
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Josef Macdonald has the rare blend of project management, domain expertise and XBRL technical knowledge, accumulated over more than 7 years leadership of XBRL projects.

Until July 2007, Josef was the inaugural XBRL Practice Fellow with the IASC Foundation - the parent foundation, created as part of the reorganisation in 2000 to oversee the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Josef is the longest serving practice fellow in the IASC/IASB 20 year history.  In this role he founded the IASC Foundation XBRL Team, which he led from its inception. 

As founding chairman and project leader of the IFRS Taxonomy Working Group, Josef’s primary responsibility was to coordinate development of the core IFRS-based XBRL taxonomy and its support applications, as well as to initiate and direct IFRS XBRL-based projects. Josef held this position from January 2002 until July 2007. During this time he oversaw the release of 7 versions of IFRS taxonomies.

During this time, Josef led groups of domain and technical experts.  He also worked directly with specialist software vendors in the development of their XBRL tools to ensure compatibility and support for XBRL and the IFRS Taxonomies.  He also led development of a number of complimentary custom tools built by the IASC Foundation XBRL Team - including development of the world’s first online taxonomy modules manager, versioning tool, online taxonomy status indicator, presentation and calculation linkbase consistency checker and online taxonomy and reference search engine.

Josef was also responsible for external liaison with IFRS extension projects, including the COREP/FINREP projects, the Dutch taxonomy project, XBRL Australia, the New Zealand e-government project, Indonesian Government project, XBRL in Europe and its numerous jurisdictions.

Josef is currently the IASB’s representative to the European Committee of Central Balance Sheet Data Offices (ECCBSO) whose members include representatives of the ECB, Eurostat and 14 European Central Banks.  Josef has been the initiator and project leader of 3 years of XBRL and IFRS prototype projects aimed at reducing the reporting burden of European companies on behalf of the ECCBSO’s Third Working Group.

Josef is a former Chairman of the XBRL International Domain Working Group and was an Interim XBRL Standards Board member.  He has been involved in various roles with the initiation and establishment of various XBRL jurisdictions, including New Zealand and Australia.

Josef is a co-author of XBRL International’s Taxonomy Review Process and of the Financial Reporting Taxonomy Architecture.

Chris Knight, Product Strategy Manager, MYOB, Australia
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Chris joined MYOB in 2001 to assist the development of a range of services that connect small business internal processes with their external trading partners - such as customers, suppliers, government and superannuation funds.

He has a strong background in service development and technology (10 years with IBM) and financial services (10 years running electronic banking at the National Australia Bank).

Olivier Servais, XBRL Team Leader, IASC Foundation, UK
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Since 16 April 2007, XBRL Team Leader - IASC Foundation

The Mission of the IASCF XBRL Team is to create and provide the framework for consistent adoption and implementation of IFRS standards with an XBRL taxonomy. In his capacity of Team Leader, Olivier is in charge of coordinating all resources for accelerating the implementation and use of IFRS with XBRL. The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) Foundation, the oversight body of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), is the private sector independent body responsible for the development and promulgation of a single set of high quality international accounting standards, commonly named IFRS.

Since 1 Feb 2006, Director - XBRL International in Europe

During this period, Olivier has been in charge of coordinating all efforts for accelerating the implementation and use of XBRL in Europe. (This position carries forward Olivier’s previous responsibilities as Permanent Secretary of XBRL in Europe).

Before that and since Feb 2004, Olivier was XBRL in Europe - Permanent Secretary

XBRL in Europe was a pan-European two-year project, financed by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme, to speed up the use of XBRL, by increasing awareness and helping national jurisdictions to start and to expand.

In those capacities, Olivier has also been

Olivier Servais  holds a Licentiate's degree (Ingénieur commercial) in Business Administration and a post-university degree SME Administration, both from ICHEC, Brussels.

Office address:

International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation
Cannon Street 30 - 1st Floor
EC4M 6XH London, UK
Tel : +44 (0)207 246 6927
Fax : +44 (0)207 246 6410
oservais@iasb.org

 

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