Volunteer Leadership

XBRL US member volunteers are the driving force helping to set the strategic direction of the organization. All members have the opportunity to join one of the primary steering committees: the Communication and Services Steering Committee or the Domain Steering Committee. Committees are elected annually through a vote by member organizations. Each steering committee may also have activity-specific working groups which members also have an opportunity to join.

XBRL US is currently governed by a 15-member Board of Directors, with annual nominations and voting by XBRL US member companies.

Communications & Services Steering Committee

Facilitate the adoption of XBRL by the business reporting supply chain by engaging members and the public at large in efforts to increase relevance of XBRL and build community among a diverse audience.

Michael Becker - BusinessWire (Chair)
Sue Childs, EDGAR Online
Joseph Kull - PricewaterhouseCoopers
Michael Ohata - KPMG
Amy Pawlicki - AICPA
Darren Petersen, UBmatrix
Frank Pizzolato - Clarity Systems
John Stantial - United Technologies Corporation
Dave Tomlinson - Trintech
Leanne Travers - Allocation Solutions

Domain Steering Committee

Drawing upon the collective knowledge and domain expertise of the XBRL US community, the Domain Steering Committee's primary goal is to oversee the development of taxonomies to meet the business reporting needs of key markets in the United States.

Building a taxonomy involves bringing together domain experts to define terms or concepts used for business reporting, and then structuring that information in an XBRL-compliant fashion to create a digital dictionary in XBRL. The blend of accounting/finance and technical XBRL expertise is one of the keys to the success of the Domain Steering Committee.

Responsibilities of the Domain Steering Committee include reviewing and establishing the business requirements for the XBRL specification, participating in the development of global taxonomy architecture best practices, and participating in the development of taxonomy development and approval processes.

Matthew Birney, United Technologies
Richard Flynn, D&B
Masatomo Goto, Fujitsu
Karyn Rudnick, Merrill Corp
Mark Schnitzer, Microsoft
Matthew Slavin, Ernst & Young