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By Michael Eggebrecht
As of March 8, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a CEO again, naming former Novell EVP and CTO Jeffrey Jaffe to the position left vacant since October 2008.
The W3C Web standards group, founded in 1994 by director Tim Berners-Lee, says that Jaffe will head up global operations, work with stakeholders and sustain a “culture of cooperation and transparency.” He will work closely with Berners-Lee on W3C's future direction.
Jaffe, who left Novell in late January after logging four years with the company, says that he will be a regular contributor to the W3C blog in an effort to keep communication open. “My most immediate priority is to preserve and enhance the W3C culture of having an open consensus-based process,” he wrote in a blog posted Monday. “One part of that is blogging. I intend to post often and invite comments. This will be a good way for people to engage in public discussion with me on issues of importance to the organization.”
The W3C’s previous CEO, Steve Bratt, left the organization for another non-profit founded by Berners-Lee -- the World Wide Web Foundation. He joined W3C in 2002 as chief operating officer before moving into the chief executive role. Since his departure, Berners-Lee has been alone at the top of the 65-person standards organization, which is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and Keio University in Japan.
“Web technologies continue to be the vehicle for every industry to incorporate the rapid pace of change into their way of doing business,” said Jaffe. “I’m excited to join W3C at this time of increased innovation, since W3C is the place where the industry comes together to set standards for the Web in an open and collaborative fashion.”
For five years before joining Novell, Jaffe was at Lucent Technologies, where he served as president of Bell Labs research and advanced technologies. He also worked for IBM for two decades, becoming corporate VP of technology.
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