Michael McKenna has been a specialist in globalization of applications and distributed systems for over twelve years. He is a licensed professional engineer and has a background in global e-commerce, application design, database internals, distributed bibliographic systems, test engineering, and ethnographic research.

Michael has helped formulate international technology and process strategies for companies such as Xerox, Clarify, Nortel Networks, 3M, HP, Charles Schwab, Commerce One and others.

In various positions, Michael has had primary responsibilities for internationalization architecture across multiple technologies, oversight of corporate global business strategies, streamlining and enhancing localization processes, and technical and business product management of global e-Commerce products and services. He founded the Sybase Global Products Group, which was responsible for the internationalization architecture of all enterprise information management software that Sybase markets.

Michael has been active in standards activities, speaks regularly at conferences and seminars around the world, and has produced curriculum and taught classes on software engineering for the University of California.

He is a co-founder of the Globalisation Management Strategies Group.