
Wendy Seltzer Strategy Lead and Counsel
e-mailwseltzer@w3.org
Wendy is a lawyer and technologist who leads W3C's Strategy Team. She joined W3C in 2012 after a tour of legal academia and, before that, Electronic Frontier Foundation. She was drawn into open code as a law student, as the first webmaster for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and hasn't been able to escape since. Wendy's legal research focuses on "openness," in the law and technology of online expression, user-innovation, privacy, and anonymity.

Ralph Swick Chief Operating Officer
e-mailswick@w3.org
Ralph joined W3C in January 1997, to focus on the Privacy and
Demographics project. As that project (now called
P3P) was starting, Ralph also started the
Metadata project. The
Resource Description Framework
became a full-time
responsibility when the Metadata Activity turned into the Semantic Web Activity.
In 2007 Ralph became the leader of the Technology and Society Domain and in 2009 was appointed Acting Chief Operating Officer. As of 2010 the 'acting' qualfier was removed. Ralph came to us from the X Consortium, where he
was Technical Director for the X Window System. Ralph brings to W3C
both a systems background and an application background. Long
involved with the X Window System, Ralph was one of the architects
of the Xt Intrinsics (user interface) toolkit.
Prior to joining the X Consortium, Ralph was a software engineer
for Digital Equipment Corporation in their Office Systems Advanced
Development Group. There he worked on information filtering tools
(software agents) and computer-supported cooperative work tools.
Before that, Ralph was in Digital's Corporate Research Group
working at MIT Project Athena. Ralph holds a BS in Physics and
Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ralph's interests are in applications of Web technologies to
support human-human interaction, especially over time and distance.

Rigo Wenning Rechtsanwalt
e-mailrigo@w3.org
Rigo Wenning joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on privacy and digital
signatures. He works as Legal counsel in team-legal and on Linked data