Uche Ogbuji is a Computer Engineer, co-founder and CEO of Fourthought, Inc., a software vendor and consultancy specializing in open, standards-based XML solutions, especially as applicable to problems of knowledge management. He has worked with XML for several years, co-developing 4Suite, a open-source platform for XML and RDF applications, written in Python and C. He writes articles on XML for XML.om, ITWorld, IBM developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, Application Development Trends, and elsewhere. He also speaks extensively at various conferences.

Mr. Ogbuji is a Nigerian immigrant with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado where he enjoys playing soccer in the summer and snowboarding in the winter. His main interest is literature, and poetry in particular.