Jon Mason is President of InterCog, a knowledge industry consultancy.  Prior to founding InterCog, he was Executive Consultant with education.au limited and Assistant Director of IMS Australia. He has an advocacy role in developing interoperability standards relevant to Internet-enabled education and training in Australia. Through education.au limited his focus is on supporting collaborative initiatives and building knowledge networks aimed at achieving mutual benefit. Mr. Mason's responsibilities have recently included Acting Director, IMS Australia; co-Chair, the Dublin Core Metadata Education Working Group; Member, IEEE LTSC; Australian Delegate, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, IT in Learning, Education and Training; Chair, Standards Australia IT-19-1; Member, Standards Australia Knowledge Management Reference Group; Member, Australian ICT in Education Committee, Standards sub-Committee; co-Lead, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Digital Repositories Interoperability Working Group; and Member, MOBIlearn Advisory Group.

Mr. Mason is well respected for his perspectives on e-learning, interoperability standards, and knowledge networks. He serves as a counselor and consultant on these issues.