 Arlene Adams: IRIS Legal |
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Arlene Adams is Managing Director of IRIS Legal, the largest provider of technology solutions to the UK legal market. Arlene has worked in the software market for over 14 years and held many senior positions in both small and large technology companies. Before IRIS she was CEO for a global mobile payments software company and prior to that held a director's position on the UK board of Sun Microsystems, one of the world's largest IT companies. She has also held senior positions at IBM.
Her background has exposed her to many industry sectors including financial services and telecommunications. Arlene recognises that many business issues facing today's legal and property firms have already been tackled in other industries through the effective use of IT. She is delighted to be able to share her experience of this with the UK legal and property market.
Arlene has a 1st Class Honours Degree in Business and Human Resource Management.
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| Bruce Kellogg: ARGUS Software |
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Bruce A. Kellogg is Senior Vice President of ARGUS Software. Mr. Kellogg is responsible for Industry Relations and Research based on his 36 years of service within the appraisal profession and real estate industry. As of March 2008, Bruce was elected as Board Chairman of OSCRE Americas, the global real estate data standards body.
Prior to joining ARGUS Software in January 2007, he served as Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield’s Valuation Services since 1996, where he oversaw the group’s quality control procedures and was Editor-in-Chief of Real Estate Outlook, a biannual investor survey, from 1996 to 2003. Over his final four years of service at C&W, he represented Valuation Services as a national officer of the Appraisal Institute, serving as National President in 2005.
In 1982, Mr. Kellogg was awarded the MAI designation by the Appraisal Institute. In 2005, he was honored with the FRICS designation of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Prior to working at Cushman & Wakefield, he worked for CB Richard Ellis (Atlanta), Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (NYC), Bankers Trust Co. (NYC), Miller & Kafes Associates (Ft. Lee, NJ), and Seamen’s Bank for Savings (NYC).
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| Chris Lees: Calvis |
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Chris has 18 years experience in management and technology and 13 years in the real estate industry. He is the founder of PISCES, the global real estate data standards organization, and has implemented enterprise data warehouses, electronic data collaboration solutions and document/content management solutions throughout the real estate sector.
Chris sits on the board of a number of surveying companies in a non-executive capacity advising on IT and his deep experience across the investment management, professional advisory, legal and institutional property markets enables him to make a decisive contribution to corporate management and enterprise projects. He understands what it takes to enable an organization to successfully achieve transitions whether driven by business change or enterprise technology projects.
Chris is also an active participant in the Property IT Directors Forum (which he founded), the Society for Computers and Law IT in Property Group, the Investment Property Forum and PISCES (where Chris was both the chairman and chaired the International Workgroup, providing the global umbrella for operations within PISCES and OSCRE Americas). He is also a frequent speaker at UK, European and US real estate conferences.
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| Gerry Gavigan: Open Source Consortium |
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Gerry Gavigan is chairman of the Open Source Consortium, a trade body for anyone in the UK interested in Free and open source software. He is a former civil servant with a long interest in e-government. While in Cabinet Office he created and introduced the 2005 target for on-line services. Similarly he also created the policy on a mixed economy.
Prior to that, in DTI (BERR) he introduced early examples of e-government, guidance and consultation for a wide range of policy, including the National Minimum Wage. Now he mainly spends his time advocating for the fifth freedom of Free Software, free markets.
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| James Senior: Microsoft |
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James is based in Seattle as the Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft's Live Platform. He helps consumers and businesses understand how Microsoft technologies can help realise their potential. Prior to this James worked for Microsoft in the UK for 3 years as a Partner Technology Specialist and for Intel as a Software Developer. A published author on the topic of software quality, James writes a blog focussing on technology at http://www.jamessenior.com Outside of work, James is a keen golfer and basketball player, and also enjoys writing music - although not all at the same time.
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| Mick Flynn: Trace Solutions |
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Mick has worked for Trace Solutions since 1976, initially as a computer programmer on Trace’s very first property management system. Subsequently, he has worked in a variety of roles including leading the team that developed the current TRAMPS property management software and now as managing director. As a result of his client facing role, Mick was instrumental in creating the PISCES PIE Workgroup in order to provide a business solution that Trace’s clients had identified and has acted as chair of that group since 2006.
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| Moz Gamble: First Title |
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Moz practised for several years as a property and litigation lawyer in Australia's largest law firm before relocating to the UK to pursue related opportunities.
Moz's experience includes acting for institutional investors in Australia and High Court and Court of Appeal cases in the UK and founding offshore operations for major UK media groups.
Moz focuses on unusual and larger property risks and brings years of professional experience both in real estate and litigation to his transactional work for First Title.
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| Paul Albone: TM Property |
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Paul has been involved in large scale IT systems for over 12 years and is a Software Engineer by trade. He has spent the last 5 years working with Conveyancers for TM Property developing on line conveyancing ‘one stop shop’ systems including Online OS™ mapping. Previous to this he spent 9 years with a telecoms company developing both operational and back office systems for the support and programming of Least Cost Routers.
He has been involved with PISCES since July 2005 when the Search Ordering Workgroup was formed. During the following 12 months he was actively involved in developing the schemas and took over the Chair of this group in June 2006 and have since enabled a number of organisations to pilot and then implement the Standard using the infrastructure of the TM Systems.
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| Paul Clark: d3legal |
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A property lawyer "by trade" with experience in developing and implementing volume conveyancing operations for law firms and estate agents, Paul has over 25 years' experience in the legal property sector. This has benefited many PISCES work groups since the inaugural Residential Work Group first met in 2002, and most recently the HIP Work Group.
Paul has developed and managed the implementation of the HIP proposition at d3legal - a trading name for the volume operation of Dickinson Dees LLP - and is involved in system and process development in other areas as well as business development for the firm.
Further Information:PISCES
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| Paul Westmore: HM Land Registry |
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Paul has spent the last 10 years working on internet based solutions for a number of large organisations in both the public and private sectors. He is a career information technologist who has specialised in large scale Project and Programme management.
Paul joined the Land Registry 5 years ago where he works in IT as the Head of Conveyancing and Public systems. He has worked with internal teams and LR's strategic technology partner IBM to deliver the prototype phases of the eConveyancing technical solution.
From 2000 to 2003 Paul ran a consulting group for an Internet Security Software House working with clients such as ING Bank and Lloyd's of London.
Prior to that Paul spent many years working at Marks and Spencer including a 2 year spell as eCommerce Programme Manager.
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| Peter Brown: Pensive |
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Peter is founder and Managing Director of Pensive S.A., a European software solutions company specializing in “information asset management”. Until July 2006 he was Senior Expert on eGovernment strategy in the Austrian Federal Chancellery where he promoted work on pan-European eGovernment services, electronic identity management and EU "Information Society" policies. He was Chair of the “eGovernment Focus Group”, established by the European standards agency, CEN and is currently an elected member of the Board of Directors of OASIS (The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards).
From 2000 to 2004, Peter led data standardisation and interoperability efforts in the European Parliament and introduced XML data standards, business-centred information modelling and information architecture. He is the author of "Information Architecture with XML - a Management Strategy" (John Wiley and Sons, 2003), works regularly in many European languages, lectures extensively in Europe and North America and has worked as an expert for projects in Africa and Latin America.
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| Peter Linkletter: Public Works and Government Services Canada |
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Peter Linkletter is the Senior Project Director of the Real Property Business and Systems Transformation Project in the Real Property Branch of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and leads a major business transformation project in the Branch, an effort that landed him on Realcomm’s global "Top 35 People to Watch in 2008" list. PWGSC manages one of the largest and most diverse portfolios of real estate in the country and is the Government of Canada's real estate expert. Peter began his public service career in 1996 and has held a succession of increasingly challenging roles within PWGSC and the Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat. Peter started his working career by taking a “year off” between high school and university to play keyboards with the Ottawa rock band “US”. The band released original recordings, graced the airwaves, and toured coast-to-coast. After four years as a member of the band, and much to his parents’ relief, he continued his academic pursuits. Peter went on to complete a Combined Honours Bachelor of Arts degree (Political Science and Geography) from Carleton University as well as Master of Urban and Regional Planning and Master of Business Administration degrees from Queen’s University. Peter is Vice-Chair of the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) Americas Inc. (www.oscre.org) and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation (www.ottawacancer.ca) and the Real Property Institute of Canada ( www.rpic-ibic.ca).
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| Richard Collins: St Martins |
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Richard has been directing I.T at the St Martins International Property Group for more than ten years. He has held similar IT and business integration appointments at organisations which include Phillips Electronics, British Oxygen Corporation and Smithkline Beecham. He can talk P&L and bits and bytes.
St Martins is the Real Estate Investment arm of the Kuwait Government who are in the process expanding their portfolio throughout the EMEA. Richard is engaged with all U.K and overseas partners to integrate their local management systems with the information needed for strategic asset management from the London headquarters.
“I have to cope with a sea of loose ends, projects with tidy start and finish lines are rare, as they say in water skiing “if you’re not falling, you’re not trying”.
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| Richard Dace: Trace Solutions |
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Richard has worked for Trace Solutions since 1989. His roles at Trace have included trainer, pre-and-post-sales support manager and business analyst, and he has worked closely with many Trace customers. Prior to joining Trace he worked in the commercial property sector.
He was one of the original directors of PISCES (1999-2001) and was involved in the definition of the first version of the standard. More recently he participated in the PISCES PIE Workgroup which published a schema for electronic data exchange of portfolio information in 2007.
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| Stephen Mason: Barrister and Technology Author |
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Stephen Mason is a barrister ( http://www.stephenmason.eu) with an interest in electronic signatures, authentication, security, electronic evidence, e-mail and internet use, and interception and monitoring of communications. He is a member of the IT Panel of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales, and the UK representative on the IT Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe. He is presently Visiting Research Fellow, Digital Evidence Research at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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| Tony B. Coates: Document Engineering Services |
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Tony is an Associate Director of Document Engineering Services, an international consortium of experts supporting universal business interoperability through the use of open standards.
He is an expert in the design and use of XML, especially for banking and finance, and contributes to the industry by working to advance the standardisation of methodologies for working with XML and electronic messages or documents. Tony is the creator and editor of the OASIS genericode specification for code lists. He is an active participant in the development of the ISO 20022 methodology for model-based design of XML Schemas for banking and finance, and is the Principal UK Expert to the ISO working group (TC68/WG4). He is also an active participant in the development of UN/CEFACT's Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) and the UN/CEFACT Context Methodology (UCM).
Since moving to London in 2000, Tony has worked on projects for a number of major financial institutions there, as well as for government. Much of this work has been in architecture and design of corporate data models and message sets.
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| Victor Olowe: Council for Licensed Conveyancers |
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Victor Olowe is the Chief Executive of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), the statutory regulator for the profession of licensed conveyancers. Prior to joining the CLC in December 2006, he was the Head of Practice Standards at the Law Society from October 2001
At the Law Society, he was responsible for setting up the Practice Standards Unit with the objective to help law firms improve standards of practice through the promotion of client care and practice excellence. Between 2001 and 2004 during his time with the Law Society, he was also responsible for the strategic development of the Lexcel Quality Standard as an effective risk management tool.
Prior to joining the Law Society, Victor worked as Quality Manager with Pictons Solicitors. Prior to this, he worked for the former Legal Aid Board now the Legal Services Commission as a Liaison Manager.
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