OGC Announces New Leadership

开放的地理空间联盟（OGC）宣布了新的联盟领导，2019年3月1日生效.NadineAlameh博士返回OGC作为首席执行官。她带来了私营部门的重要私营行政领导体验，是一系列强大的标准制定和部署背景，以及一系列领域的技术专业知识，包括地球观测，航空，公共安全和防御。作为首席执行官，她有责任与OGC董事会，OGC会员和工作人员合作，创建和整合本组织的战略方向和业务计划。

从2009年到2014年，Alameh是OGC员工的成员，最初作为OGC的互操作计划的执行董事最初为董事，董事。Alameh博士将测试平台，试点举措和实验组合在一起，作为全球和独特的实践敏捷原型和测试计划的一部分，旨在联合用户和技术提供商加速基于标准的互操作性的开发和创新。Alameh博士是在计算机和信息系统工程中的博士学位，硕士，民间和环境工程中的博士学位，以及城市规划中的硕士。

"I am excited to return to OGC as CEO and member of an exceptional leadership team. I look forward to working with OGC members, staff and the Board of Directors to channel our collective passion for interoperability, and to solidify OGC’s global position as an open collaboration forum that drives innovation for the location sector. We are living in an exciting and rapidly changing world where location continues to play an increasingly critical role," Nadine Alameh commented.

New OGC president and COO

OGC的Bart De Lathouwer先生将成为OGC总裁。他将确保执行和资源，OGC商业计划和监督OGC预算和财务管理，全球成员服务和业务发展。他将保持他作为OGC在欧洲的子公司业务的总经理的角色。

斯科特·斯科蒙斯博士将成为OGC首席运营官。西蒙斯先生将重点放在保证日常运营完整性和OGC计划和产出的质量，以满足OGC的成员和全球社区的需求。除了担任OGC标准计划的执行董事外，他还假设此职位。

Dr Alameh, Mr De Lathouwer, and Mr Simmons will join Mr George Percivall, chief technology officer, and Mr. Jeff Burnett, VP for finance and administration, forming OGC’s senior leadership team.

“The Board of Directors is excited to announce the OGC leadership,” said The Honorable Jeffrey K. Harris, chairman of OGC. “Dr Alameh’s rich operational, analytic and domain-specific experience will position the Consortium to maintain its leadership role and mission in driving geospatial data interoperability. This leadership team is well qualified to leverage their experience to drive innovative solutions in support of the Consortium’s global community. The combined market, technology and mission expertise of this leadership is exceptional.”

Place-based understanding and decision-making

Since its inception in 1994, OGC has experienced significant growth and diversification in its mission activities, advancing freely available open geospatial standards and best practices worldwide. Through innovative development, testing and demonstration programmes, OGC has improved place-based understanding and decision-making for a range of social, environmental and economic domains.

OGC’s leadership will work with OGC members and the global community to build on its success in supporting the rapidly evolving market of location-enabled technologies, sensors and information sources, as well as the broadening array of communities of interest including public safety, water resources, environmental monitoring, energy, utilities, aviation, smart/resilient cities, indoor navigation and land administration.