Joe is the Managing Director of Gnostyx Research Inc. (www.gnostyx.com), an independent solution provider and consultancy that specializes in the effective application of content technologies. As a solution architect and project manager, he has led over 100 content management initiatives during the last 25 years in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, defense, software, telecommunications, manufacturing, engineering, construction, education, publishing, government, and healthcare. In this time, he has worked with such innovative customers as Boeing, the Department of Defense, NATO, NORAD, HP, Xerox, Nokia, Samsung, Ford, Hearst Publishing, the University of Oxford, and the Russian Academy of Science. He is a former artillery officer in the Canadian Army and a graduate from both Queen’s University and the University of Oxford (Masters of Philosophy). He has also completed post-graduate programs in Knowledge Management, Business Analysis, and Project Management. He blogs on the nature of content as the Content Philosopher (www.gollner.ca) and is still working on his magnum opus, a book about “engineering content”. In 2014, he received the Matthew Arnold faculty award from the University of Oxford for his recent contributions to Digital Humanities.