Patrick Gannon

Patrick J. Gannon is the executive director and president of SGIP 2.0, Inc., the international non-profit Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. SGIP is driving the collaboration, coordination and promotion of smart grid standards interoperability for the energy sector on a global basis. Previously he served as president of Warning Systems, Inc. from 2008 to 2013, and as president and CEO of OASIS Open from 2001 to 2008.

Mr. Gannon was appointed in 2006 as a high-level advisor to the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID). He also served from 2000 to 2005 with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as chairman of the team of specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advised governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. Gannon served as a member of the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) from 2004 to 2006 where he worked closely with the NIST director and staff.

Mr. Gannon worked for BEA Systems, as senior vice president in the eCommerce Integration Division, and at Netfish Technologies, as vice president of Marketing and Industry Programs. He also served as vice president of strategic programs for the CommerceNet Consortium in Palo Alto, California, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML in the mid-1990s. While at CommerceNet, he became the first project leader for RosettaNet and served as executive director for the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) initiative. Mr. Gannon is co-author of the book, Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs, and is an international speaker on electronic business and Internet software standards.