Mary's focus is on bringing innovative rule-based, role-based software to market and building software ecosystems. Through her work creating and evolving applications infrastructure software for CRM, e-commerce and PLM she has come to see the need for open, user-centric systems.
Mary is the founder of Meristic, Inc. and co-founder of socialphysics.org. She is also co-leads the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins open source Identity Framework Project, and is a founding board member of the Information Card Foundation
Previously Mary was a VP at Parity Communications (parityinc.net), and Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:PMTC). Before PTC, she was VP Strategic Alliances at OpenOrders, where she helped sell the company to IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Suite software group. Prior to OpenOrders, she was VP Advanced Products at Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA). Mary was a early employee at Pegasystems, which is a developer of rules-based customer service process automation software. Security and Identity are important issues to customers at all of these companies. Mary has a degree in Mathematics from Smith College and a MSM from the MIT Sloan School of Management.