Steven R. Bratt

Resume / Curriculum Vitae

Senior Executive with 20+ years of success in driving change with technology at the international level. Directed initiatives to build international organizations and boards, create next-generation technologies and software systems, and improve access to information for people around the world. Cross-functional leader in commercial, government, and non-profit environments.

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Professional Experience

GS1 (2012 - present)
Princeton, New Jersey and Brussels, Belgium

Chief Technology Office & President, Standards Development and EPCglobal, Inc.
GS1 is the international non-profit organization that develops open, technical standards for identifying just about everything (products, assets, services, entities, people, places). This includes the world's barcodes (40 years old in 2013), RFID tags (e.g. on products, shipping containers, cars, medical devices, coupons, runners, etc.) and the registry services that allow these identifiers to be created, to be shared, and to make the world a more efficient place. GS1 has a presence in over 100 countries. Close to 2 million companies are members of GS1.
 
Steve is President of the EPCglobal Board of Governors and Innovation Board (including Google, P&G, Walmart, JM Smuckers, MIT and others), and responsible for the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP), the GS1 Innovation Network, technology strategy, data systems development, corporate information technology and the Princeton office.

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World Wide Web Foundation (2008 - 2012)
Geneva, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts

Chief Executive Officer
The Web Foundation drives high-risk, high-impact initiatives to connect and empower all people for whom communication could be life-changing.

Launched the Foundation, together with Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.  Led initial business strategy and launch plan. Headed operations and finances while serving a combination of C-level functions.  Managed two international offices and staff based in the US, Europe and Africa. Accountable to two Boards of Directors and multiple funders and beneficiaries.

• Secured $5M grant for Foundation launch, and additional $8M for research and field projects. Initial donors included the Knight Foundation, Google, Vodafone, Nokia, Rockefeller Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, European Commission, World Bank and International Press Institute.
• Formed legal entities in the US and Switzerland, and established Boards of Directors, Advisory Council, and Science Council.
• Created and executed innovative initiatives:
• Voice-based Web connectivity using simple mobile phones.
• Training mobile Web entrepreneurs in developing countries.
• Publishing government data on the Web to improve transparency, services and commerce.
• Initial testing in Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mali and Senegal, with expansion expected.
• Created the Web Index, a world-first measure of the Web’s global economic, social, and political impact.

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2002 - 2009)
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chief Executive Officer
The World Wide Web Consortium is where the world’s leading organizations develop the technologies that make the Web work, including HTML, XML, CSS, VoiceXML, SOAP, RDF, Web accessibility, internationalization and privacy.

Executive leadership of all governance, technical and financial functions. Developed strategic plans and organizational goals. Coordinated the W3C Advisory Board (included IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Google, Mozilla, Boeing and others). Oversaw process governing development of open standards by 1,500 technologists within 60 working groups. Directed team of 60 noted professionals based in 20 offices around the globe to coordinate Web standards and develop open source software.

• Launched new standards work around HTML5, Web services, Web 2.0, semantic Web (linked data), mobile Web, multimodal, voice, video, security, social networking and health care and life sciences.
• Oversaw creation of open source tools to support one of the best environments for standards development in the world. Opened new offices in Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Senegal, and South Africa.
• Improved relationships with W3C's 400 member companies, universities, non-profits and governmental agencies including:  Adobe, Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Avaya, Boeing, BT, Canon, Chevron, Cisco, Citigroup, Deutsche Telecom, Disney, Dow Jones, Eli Lilly, EMC, Ericsson, France Telecom, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, ILOG, Intel, Merck, MITRE, Nokia, Novartis, NTT, Nuance, Oracle, Pfizer, RedHat, RIM, Samsung, SAP, Sharp, Siemens, SoftwareAG, Sun, Time Warner/AOL, Toshiba, Verisign, Vodafone, Xerox, and Yahoo.
• Increased membership and revenue, and reduced spending to improve long-term organization viability.
• Implemented industry-leading patent policy and created streamlined process to develop innovative technologies.
• Strengthened liaisons with over 40 national and international standards bodies.
  

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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) (1997 - 2001)
Vienna, Austria

Coordinator, International Data Centre Division - IDC
The CTBTO is a UN-affiliated organization, founded in 1997 to a build treaty verification regime to detect and deter global nuclear weapons testing.

Appointed first Coordinator of the IDC, one of two senior US executives on inaugural executive team. Guided the IDC and Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI) to initial operation in two years. Directed strategic planning as well as systems design and deployment for $25M annual budget.  Oversaw information security and measurement-based quality assurance.  Hired and managed 100+ staff members from 40+ nations. Directed cross-divisional teams to implement state-of-health and knowledge management systems that communicated through open public, secure external and private intranet Web interfaces. Communicated progress and plans to stakeholders, global dignitaries, and technical experts.

• Successful implementation and operations led to increase of division funding from $15M/yr to $25M/yr.
• Implemented the world’s most sophisticated geophysical data collection and real-time analysis system. Leveraged knowledge-based, big-data fusion and human decision support to detect, locate and identify geophysical phenomena, including possible nuclear explosions.
• Designed and installed the GCI – the first VSAT satellite telecommunications system to cover the globe – to provide Internet-based data collection from 321 sensors, and Web-based product distribution to data centers in 100 nations.
• Designed and built operational facilities costing $11M, including 24/7 computing, situation, and media centers.
• Installed three major releases of data acquisition and knowledge-based processing software, using C++, Java, HTML, XML, PKI, LDAP, Oracle, UNIX and Windows.

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