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Ahren Lehnert is an enterprise taxonomy and ontology leader with over 20 years’ experience designing consistent, standards-based, scalable enterprise knowledge organization systems. He has developed enterprise taxonomies as an enterprise taxonomist, consultant, and taxonomy vendor representative across a broad range of industries for content and digital asset management, knowledge management, search, auto-categorization, and machine learning initiatives. He writes about and is a frequent speaker on industry topics. He lives and works in Oakland, California.

Bonnie Griffin is an experienced taxonomy consultant. Her expertise spans various industries, including tech and finance. She previously served as the taxonomist for PayPal's Knowledge Management Content team and held roles at Indeed, where she developed occupational taxonomies for international markets and led global taxonomy teams.

She holds a PhD in French Literature from Vanderbilt University. Bonnie is based in Austin

John is a seasoned creative professional with over seventeen years of experience in media. He began his career at Nickelodeon, advancing from Production Assistant to Executive Producer, where he led a large creative team in crafting promos and branding pieces for major live events and digital channels.

Richard has extensive experience in project management and operations in a global multi-channel business environment. He’s been in leadership positions at Lands’ End for over 20 years, currently overseeing enterprise creative operations which includes photography operations and production, digital asset management, catalog production, and creative project management. Richard’s a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® and recently achieved a Master of Science degree in Project Management.

Jennifer is a Digital Asset Manager at Progressive Insurance with nearly two decades of experience in the digital asset management field. She has worked in the industry since 2006, specializing in controlled vocabulary design, end‑user training, rights management, DAM governance, and usage analytics. Her work also includes cross‑functional collaboration to define and implement workflow processes, including system integrations.