Joe Gollner is the founder and president of XIA Systems Corporation, a firm that has enjoyed five years of continuous growth as the developer of Content Solutions that leverage the power of XML. Starting as a graduate student trying to put Italian Poetry online in 1987, Mr. Gollner has been an advocate of SGML and its various descendants, including XML, for over fifteen years. Accused in 1995 of being the only person making money in the SGML community, he remains unrepentant and continues to champion the necessity of deriving tangible business benefits from the judicious deployment of open standards. Mr. Gollner has managed a vast number of XML and SGML implementations during his career and done so in every conceivable market sector. His work in the military and aerospace communities in the 1990s remains a benchmark against which large scale deployments of multi-enterprise interchange protocols can be measured. He is currently overseeing projects in such fields as education, health, government, aerospace, military, legal, and scientific publishing, where the benefits of full-spectrum publishing and high fidelity information management are being extracted from large-scale, XML-enabled portal applications. A former officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, Mr. Gollner was educated in a wide range of esoteric subjects while taking degrees at Queen's University and the University of Oxford (Master's of Philosophy).