• Internationally recognized expert in digital inclusion, Web accessibility, Web interoperability, the Semantic Web, knowledge modeling accessibility and web protocols. She has been a key member of the W3C Forum working groups on web accessibility. She drafted the first versions of ARIA, the base accessibility layer for the web and has been instrumental in creating the standards that are accepted as the benchmark for interoperability and accessibility worldwide. • Headed research teams with international partners including from: USA, England, Ireland, India, France, Spain, Italy, German and Australia. • Consulted for many Fortune 500 companies (including IBM, SAP and Google) and for the European Commission.• Multifaceted leader and team player who uses innovation and creative strategies enable business growth and to address the real pain of business and customers. • Blends experience with outside-of-the-box thinking to design creative, evolutionary solutions, turning challenges into achievements.• Proven business successes include closing the initial investments for UB Access in 2002, and successfully closing of the sale of UB Access in 2006.• Inventor, Guest lecturer, Published