Donald Deutsch

A 30-year veteran of the Information Technology industry, Don Deutsch is currently Vice President, Standards Strategy and Architecture for Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA. For over 25 years he has chaired the INCITS H2 Technical Committee on Database that defines the standard that all relational database management system products support. In addition to continuing to lead H2's development of database language SQL specifications, Don represents Oracle at the executive/policy level in various consortia as well as in formal standards bodies including: the INCITS Executive Board, the Executive Committee for the Java Community Process, and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Directors. At the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Don is an elected member of the Advisory Board and serves as Co-Chair of the Patent and Standards Interest Group. Don is President of the Enterprise Grid Alliance, a consortium focusing on accelerating the application of Grid technology in commercial and public sector data centers, and is serving as Chairman of the JTC 1 Web Services Study Group. ANSI recognized Dr. Deutsch for his leadership of national and international information technology standardization as the 2002 recipient of the Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal. Dr. Deutsch earned a BS from Miami University in Oxford, OH, and MBA and doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published numerous articles and papers, and co-authored an undergraduate textbook on Database Concepts; the National Bureau of Standards published his doctoral research on Modeling and Measurement of Database Management Systems.