Unicode® Executive Officers
Directors |
Executive Officers |
Technical Committee Chairs |
Staff |
Org Chart
See also the
list of Previous Unicode Officers and Staff.
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Ayman Aldahleh Secretary
Ayman is the Group Engineering Manager of the
Office Core Experiences team responsible for the shared
components that Office use to build their applications,
including UX, UI platform, text rendering and editing, font
management and accessibility. Prior to this, Ayman managed
different internationalization teams that built the
globalization and localization platform for Office
applications, including multilingual and machine translation
features. Ayman started at Microsoft in 1990 as a software
design engineer and worked on BiDirectional enabling of some
of Microsoft key products including DOS, Windows, IE, Word and
PowerPoint. Ayman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Engineering from University of Arizona.
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Toral
Cowieson
CEO
Toral Cowieson joined Unicode in 2021. More recently, she was
the head of strategy and impact measurement at the Internet
Society. She also held the leadership and learning portfolio,
where her team set the vision and scaled online training and
fellowship programs to reach NextGen leaders across 100
countries. Many of these technology and policy professionals
are now contributing to the design, standards development, and
governance of the core Internet infrastructure around the
world.
Toral’s prior experience includes
leadership roles as a board advisor and across non-profits and
corporations, including Thomson Reuters.
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Mark Davis
CTO & Cofounder;
CLDR-TC Chair
Dr. Mark Davis co-founded the Unicode project and has been the president of the Unicode Consortium since its incorporation in
1991. He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications. Mark founded and was responsible for the overall architecture
of ICU (the premier Unicode software internationalization library), and architected the core of the Java internationalization classes.
He also founded and is the chair of the Unicode CLDR project, and is a co-author of BCP 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages" (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647),
used for identifying languages in all XML and HTML documents.
Since the start of 2006, Mark has been working on software internationalization at Google, focusing on effective and secure use of Unicode
(especially in the index and search pipeline), the software internationalization libraries (including ICU), and stable international identifiers.
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Anne Gundelfinger
Vice President and General Counsel
Anne is an experienced legal executive with 30 years
in private practice and in-house legal roles. From
2013-2019 she served as vice president for global
intellectual property for Swarovski, a global fashion
jewelry brand based in central Europe. Before that she
held various positions over a decade in the Intel
legal department including vice president for global
public policy, vice president for global sales &
marketing legal affairs, and director of trademarks &
brands. Early in her career she was an associate
at Fenwick & West and director of trademarks at Sun
Microsystems. Since retiring from Swarovski, Anne has
been a consultant and has served as a World
Intellectual Property Organization domain name
panelist under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
of ICANN.
Anne has long been a leader in the global IP bar. She
served on the Board of Directors of the International
Trademark Association for nearly a decade and served
as the Association’s president in 2005. From
2006 to 2008 she served as chair of the Coalition for
Intellectual Property Rights. She was one of the
drafters of the U.S. Trademark Dilution Revision Act
of 2006.
Anne has also long been a supporter of the Unicode
Consortium and its work, providing pro bono IP
counsel since the mid ‘90s. She is also a proud
Gold Sponsor of the Comma (U+002C) and the Trademark
Symbol (U+2122).
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Iris Orriss
Treasurer
Iris Orriss serves as Vice President of Internationalization, Product
Quality, and Product Experience Analytics at Meta. She has been with Meta
since 2013 and is passionate about eliminating the internet language and
cultural barriers and improving the overall user experience. Her work
focuses on growing Meta in international markets. From 2012 – 2019 Iris was
a member of the board at Translators without Borders, a nonprofit
organization that provides vital information in the right language at the
right time. Prior to Meta, Iris was a director at Microsoft working on
product internationalization and development process in the enterprise and
language technology divisions. She is a native of Germany, speaks four
languages, and was educated at Freie Universität Berlin.
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Greg Welch
VP of Marketing
Greg Welch is retired Director of Strategic Marketing in Intel’s PC Client Group.
Among his recent accomplishments has been responsibility for driving the
formulation and coordination of Intel’s Ultrabook™ program. Previous positions at Intel include:
- Director, Intel’s Architecture Group, Global WIMAX Organization,
responsible for business development relationships between Intel, Clearwire,
Best Buy and OEMs to promote the world’s first national 4G network.
- As Director of Strategy and Industry Initiatives in Intel’s Software and
Solutions Group, Greg drove Intel’s efforts to enable software for
multi-core architectures.
- Director of Strategic Planning for Intel's Mobile Platforms Group. Greg
oversaw long-range roadmap planning and business strategy for all notebook
platform, processor, and chipset products that became the Core® family of
processors.
- Director of Brand Strategy. Greg spearheaded the segmentation of Intel’s
processor brands including the Itanium® and Xeon® brands for high-end server
products, and the Celeron® brand for value PCs.
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