Team & Governance
Who's behind the standard.
MortarCAPS is led by a small executive team and governed by a board, supported by working groups drawn from across the sector.
01 Executive
Leadership.
The small executive team that runs MortarCAPS day-to-day.
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CEO
Charlsey Pearce
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CTO
Andrew Mulcahy
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Head of Product
Alex Krueger
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Head of Operations
Gemma Williams
02 Board
Board of Directors.
The MortarCAPS board brings together peak-body leaders, institutional CIOs and CDOs, sector standards experts, and independent advisors — chosen to keep the standard sector-owned and durable.
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Warwick Calkin
Chair · CIO, Navitas
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Niranjan Prabhu
President, CAUDIT
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Brian Stewart
CUCCIO representative · CIO, Simon Fraser University
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Rebecca Ostergaard
CDO, CSIRO
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Kyle Dunsire
Founder, Ingenuity Partners
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Shane Rigby
CEO, Lixi Data Standard
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Michael Burgess
Independent Advisor
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Brendan Smith
Board Secretary
03 Working groups
The sector shapes the standard.
MortarCAPS runs two tiers of working groups — Mainline (where most of the heavy lifting happens) and Sub-Working Groups (smaller, topic-focused groups open to the whole community).
Mainline
DWG · EWG · GA · ANZ CrMS · HCR
Members from across the globe shape the design and direction of MCDS.Sub-Working Groups
Research Admin · Analytics
Smaller, topic-focused groups that meet less frequently. Open to the whole MCDS community.
Want to join a working group?
Working groups are open to staff at member institutions and licensed partner organisations. Get in touch for the current Terms of Reference.