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The WebGuild's mission is to organize information and services for the Web industry. The WebGuild fosters information exchange, professional development, and networking designed to keep the Web community on the cutting edge of the field. Engineers, usability & user experience professionals, designers, internet marketers, IT managers, search engine marketers, and entrepreneurs learn about emerging technologies, innovations, business models, and best practices and industry standards in the Web field. Our core areas of focus are in User Experience, Developer Network, and Internet Marketing.

Our membership consists of:

• 42% Senior Management. Defined as positions at the vice-presidential level or above who are the decision-makers.
• 41% Technical/Design. Defined as any non-senior management position with a technical or design focus.
• 10% Freelance. Defined as independent contractors, the self-employed or any other similar situation.
• 7% Business. Defined as any non-senior management position with a business administration, sales, or marketing focus.

Our Conferences and Events feature expert speakers delivering critical insight into cutting-edge technologies and emerging business models that will transform the way we live, work, and communicate in the future.

The WebGuild is a non-profit organization. A wide-range of prominent companies sponsor the activities of the WebGuild.

Executive Officers

Reshma Kumar, Vice President, and User Experience Forum Chair
Reshma is the Vice President of WebGuild. Reshma is User Experience Specialist for VeriSign where she is responsible for defining the creative online brand of VeriSign's global family of internal and external Web sites. Prior to joining VeriSign, Reshma was at Intel, eBay, and Cisco. Reshma also writes on User Experience for the WebGuild Blog. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University, Certificate of Completion in Project Management Mastery from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Information Systems Management at Harvard University.

Advisors

Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
Jared M. Spool is founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of it’s kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.

Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the UI10 Conference, is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time. He is author of the book, Web Usability: A Designer’s Guide. Jared is an advisor to the WebGuild's User Experience programming.

Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist & Design Manager, Yahoo!
Bill Scott is the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist and a Design Manager for Yahoo!'s recently released Design Pattern Library. Bill works closely with teams throughout Yahoo! to spread the goodness of "rich and sane" design for Ajax solutions. Before joining Yahoo! Bill co-founded Rico (openrico.org), an opensource Ajax framework while also founding a User Experience Team, architecting a JSP/Struts Web framework and a Java Swing framework for Sabre. Bill's 20+ years of experience in user interface production spans from the lowest to the highest levels across desktop and web. At the lowest level: assembly language line buffer algorithms, 3D graphics libraries, mapping systems built from scratch and numerous widget libraries. Applications include: highly interactive game development (Macintosh GATO), military war gaming, IDE tools. In the design world: interaction design, rapid prototyping, managing user experience teams, and creating design pattern libraries. Bill is an advisor to the WebGuild's Developer Network programming.

Rajiv Parikh, CEO, Position2
With 20 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience, Rajiv leads the worldwide team at Position2, a leading search engine marketing firm. He is Co-Founder and Board Member of Apieron Biosystems and MetroFi, both growing VC-backed companies. He founded and grew the AltaVista Business Solutions Group to $40 million in revenues. He also led Marketing and Business Development groups at 4Info, Sun Microsystems, NCR, and AT&T. Rajiv has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Rajiv is an advisor to the WebGuild's Search Marketing programming.

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