Jonathan Marsh
VP, Business Development & Product Design

Jonathan Marsh joined WSO2 in 2006, and he currently serves as vice president of business development and product design. Previously, he led the WSO2 Mashup Server team as the director of mashup technologies.

For more than 15 years Jonathan has been helping to develop, standardize and promote core XML and Web services standards. Currently he serves as chair of the W3C Web Services Description Working Group. He also has been active in the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group and several OASIS technical committees.

Prior to joining WSO2, Jonathan spent nearly a decade at Microsoft where he was the primary representative for W3C standards Working Groups, Web Services Description, Web Services Addressing, XSL, XML Core, XML Linking, DOM, and the Advisory Committee.

Jonathan has served as editor of W3C Recommendations including XInclude, XML Base, xml:id and the XPointer Framework, as well as editor of the W3C Member Submissions WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2, and the SOAP 1.1 Binding for MTOM 1.0. He also has been involved in the development of a number of technologies that have proven invaluable to the industry, such as XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, the XML Information Set, WS-Addressing 1.0, WSDL 2.0, and the WS-I Basic Profile.

Trained in both software development and product design, Jonathan co-founded Walkabout Software in 1996 and served as the company’s design director. Walkabout developed rendering technology and HTML extensions enabling CD-ROM-level design control over Web page publishing, including advanced layout and composition, animation, and interactivity. The company was later acquired by Microsoft.

Jonathan has won awards for his design accomplishments including the ID Magazine Design Distinction award in 1995, and awards for the 1994 Apple Interface Design Competition for a project designing a handheld digital computer/network communicator for 4-6 year olds.

Jonathan has a degree in mathematics from the University of Nevada, Reno and received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering/product design from Stanford University.