Jacques Durand, director of Engineering and Standards at Fujitsu Software, is evaluating new eBusiness standards and advising on their use in the business process management and B2B products at Fujitsu. He is actively involved in the design and implementation of ebXML standards, chairing the OASIS ebXML IIC (Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance) committee. He is also actively involved in WS-I (Web Services Interoperability) organization - of which Fujitsu is a co-founder -, and is currently chairing the Testing working group of WS-I, a multi-vendor group which designs and implements tools to verify Web Service interoperability based on a concept of "Profiles". Prior to this, Jacques Durand has been V.P. of development at Savvion, a BPM company, for several years. He has more than 20 years of experience in various areas of software development, ranging from R & D to commercial products. He has received an MS in computer science and Ph.D. from Nancy University, France. One of his areas of expertise involves rule engines and logic programming.