Doug leads global ecosystem enablement for Event Driven Systems, an ecosystem of composable, interoperable, and interchangeable real-time systems delivering transformative outcomes. He has over 20 years of IT consulting experience, applying innovative strategies to digital transformation and commerce ecosystems that leverage digital twin, IoT, AI, mobile, DLT, and cloud/edge native technologies. As an interoperability thought leader, Doug developed an ontology-based event-driven architecture for highly distributed, real-time systems. He is co-author of the System Interoperability Framework whitepaper published by the Digital Twin Consortium. Prior to Event Driven Systems, Doug was Global Field CTO at Ingram Micro. He received his MBA from the University of Southern California.