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Steve Bratt

Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Foundation

Steve has had the honor and pleasure of serving in a range of interesting positions of global importance. His is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Foundation, which he launched together with the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Steve has 25 years of experience building international, technical enterprises in for-profit and non-profit environments. Prior to starting the Web Foundation, he led the world's leading Web standards organization, helped launch a new division in a large systems integration corporation, developed a global geophysical surveillance system, supported treaty negotiations in Geneva, and designed and helped establish a new international arms control organization in Vienna. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (full resume)

When not working, Steve spends as much time as possible with his family, and enjoys distance running (daily), piano, reading, travel, golf and tennis.

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Career Summary

• Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts
  
• Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Consortium, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
• Coordinator, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty International Data Center, Vienna, Austria
• Program Manager, Defense Advanced Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia
  
• Assistant Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation, California and Virginia

Other Information

• Resume / Curriculum Vitae (LinkedIn, HTML, PDF)
  
• Wikipedia page
• Web Foundation bio
  
• World Wide Web Consortium  bio
  
• Short Friend of a Friend file (http://www.foaf-project.org/)

Other roles:

• Advisory Committee Representative, World Wide Web Consortium
  
• Chief Running Officer, Winchester Highlanders Road Running Club
• Keyboardist for the band, SIX