Factonomy appoints Henry Thompson to Senior Role

Factonomy, a leading enabler of web-based business solutions, announced today the appointment of Henry Thompson as Chairman of Factonomy’s Technical Advisory Committee, effective immediately.

“Factonomy has developed some very powerful extensible XML based technology and I am looking forward to contributing to their progress, by providing input on strategic issues, such as the development of the Web,” said Thompson.

Thompson divides his time between the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works in the XML Activity.

“Henry is a renowned expert in the Internet community, who contributed to the development of XML itself and played a significant role in the creation of XSLT and XML Schema.  We believe his extensive industry and technological experience will be an invaluable asset to Factonomy,” said Geoff Kell, CEO of Factonomy.  “We are looking forward to working with him and benefiting from his experience and insights.”

Thompson was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML and is currently a member of the XML Core, XML Schema and XML Processing Model Working Groups of the W3C.

He was lead editor of the first Structures XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation. 

Factonomy was founded in 2003 by Graeme Bryce and licenses its technology framework to companies to help them reduce the time and cost it takes to develop applications.  Factonomy has a broad portfolio of clients, including national and international public companies.