Marjorie Hlava

Founder, Chairman, President

Margie Hlava is a highly respected expert in taxonomies, metadata, and data science, with a proven track record of innovation in databases and search. Her groundbreaking work has earned her numerous awards, including ASIS&T’s Watson Davis award, the SLA John Cotton Dana and SLA President’s Award, and recognition as an SLA Fellow. She has also been honored as an Albuquerque Business First Woman of Influence for Technology and received the Miles Conrad lectureship for NFAIS. Margie is actively involved in standards development, having contributed to several key initiatives such as Dublin Core, Credit Z39.104, ThesaurusANSI/NISO Z39.19, and ISO 25964. She was elected to the Hubbell Hall of Fame in 2019. With Margie’s wealth of experience and expertise, you can trust that you’re in good hands when you work with her.

Dr. Jay Ven Eman

Chief Executive Officer

As the Chief Executive Officer of our company, Dr. Jay Ven Eman brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. He guides our sales, marketing, and strategic planning departments, and also helps build semantically enriched databases for our clients. With a focus on AI and knowledge organization systems, Jay is a popular speaker and has given many presentations, workshops, and seminars on a wide range of topics related to database development, file conversions, and markup languages such as HTML, XML, and SGML. Jay earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in organizational behavior from the University of Colorado, a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of New Mexico, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business from the University of Washington. With his expertise and passion for innovation, you can trust that you’re in good hands when you work with Jay.

Heather Kotula

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Our Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Heather Kotula, is responsible for planning and executing a full spectrum of marketing activities, including presence at trade shows and conferences, online and social media events, outside communications including social media and press releases, and branding and identity management. She coordinates our annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) and DHUG East meetings. She also assists with proposal and contract preparation and review. She presents frequently at industry events. Heather is a highly respected leader in her field, having been named a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2019. She has served as the SLA Taxonomy Division Chair and the SLA Route 66 Chapter President and is also a member of the SLA Board of Directors (2022-2024) and serves on the SSP Marketing Committee.

Bill Richardson

Chief Financial Officer

As our Chief Financial Officer, Bill Richardson oversees accounting, project cost accounting, cash flow forecasting, and special projects. With over 25 years of experience at Access Innovations, Bill is a key member of our team and has a degree in Finance from the Anderson School of Business at the University of New Mexico. He is also a member of the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants. With his experience and dedication to excellence, Bill helps make sure our company is successful and our clients are happy.Bill Richardson is in charge of managing the money as our Chief Financial Officer. He handles accounting, project costs, cash flow forecasting, and special projects. He has worked at Access Innovations for over 25 years and studied Finance at the Anderson School of Business at the University of New Mexico. He’s also a member of the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants. With his experience and dedication to excellence, Bill helps make sure our company is successful and our clients are happy.

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Leadership

Marjorie Hlava

Founder, Chairman, President

An expert in taxonomies, metadata, and data science, Margie is a pioneer in databases and search. Margie’s work has been acknowledged through numerous awards, including ASIS&T’s Watson Davis award, the SLA John Cotton Dana and SLA President’s Award, recognition as an SLA Fellow, and as an Albuquerque Business First Woman of Influence for Technology. In February of 2014 she received the Miles Conrad lectureship for NFAIS. In November 2014, she received the ASIS&T Award of Merit. She was elected to the Hubbell Hall of Fame in June 2019.

Dr. Jay Ven Eman

Chief Executive Officer

Jay guides the sales, marketing, and strategic planning departments. He writes, conducts workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, semantically-enriched databases. He is a popular speaker and has given many presentations, workshops, and seminars on semantics and knowledge organizations systems (KOS), the economics of artificial intelligence (AI), topic maps, database development, legacy file conversions, SGML, HTML, XML, and other related topics.

Heather Kotula

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Heather plans and implements a variety of marketing activities such as trade show presence, online and social media events, conference involvement, and corporate identity maintenance. She also coordinates the annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) and DHUG East meetings. Heather was named a Fellow of SLA (Special Libraries Association) in 2019, and serves as the SLA Taxonomy Division Chair and the SLA Route 66 Chapter President.

Barry Bealer

Chief Revenue Officer

As an entrepreneurial leader in the software and information industry, Barry enjoys building and managing teams to execute sound business strategies. His experiences range from business development and sales operations to strategic alliances and marketing. Over the past 20 year he has been recognized by several organizations for his business leadership including the Philadelphia 100, Deloitte, SmartCEO, Philadelphia Business Journal, Marcum, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and the Project Management Institute.

Bill Richardson

Chief Financial Officer

Bill joined Access Innovations in 1995 and is in charge of accounting, project cost accounting, cash flow forecasting and various special projects. He has a degree in Finance from the Anderson School of Business at the University of New Mexico and is a member of the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants.

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Jeffrey Gordon

Lead Software Engineer

Jeffrey Gordon, Ph.D. Computer Engineering, leads the development of Data Harmony and its supporting applications. He coordinates the software and IT teams to plan, schedule, and implement features and platforms within the stack. This includes MAIstro and XIS Web, the MAIstro/XIS clients, and Smart Submit. He has been working in enterprise software for over fifteen years, starting out working with mathematical modeling at Sandia National Laboratories for fluid dynamic finite element analysis. He is an expert in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computer vision, cloud computing, scientific computing, full-stack development, and machine learning. Jeffrey received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics as well as a Master of Science in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico.