Director of Standards, Lexmark International

Don Wright has over 30 years of experience in engineering, marketing, software and standards development.  He is currently the Director of Standards for Lexmark International, one of the leading developers of printing technology and products. 

Since graduating from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 and a Masters of Electrical Engineering degree in 1979, Mr. Wright has worked on the development and marketing of office printing products first for IBM’s Office Product Division and then for Lexmark International, which was spun off of IBM as an independent company in 1991.

Mr. Wright is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization.  He was one of the founders of and a past Chair of the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE ISTO, which develops and encourages the development of standards for the office printing industry. 

Mr. Wright is a senior member of the IEEE and is currently a member of the IEEE Standards Associations (SA) Board of Governors and is its Treasurer.  As the SA Treasurer, he serves on the IEEE Finance Committee, a committee of the IEEE Board of Directors.  He has previously served as the Chair of the IEEE Standards Board and as Chair of its Patent Committee.  Previously he has served as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Microprocessor Standards Committee, which is responsible for a diverse set of standards for parallel and serial busses, programming languages, cryptography and floating point arithmetic.  Mr. Wright is also a member of the IEEE’s Admission and Advancement Committee.

Mr. Wright is currently the Chair of the Executive Board of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) which develops American National standards as well as serves as the US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1. 

He is a member of the ANSI Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee, the ANSI-ISO Council, the ANSI International Policy Committee, and the ANSI Company Member’s Forum.  He is also a member of the Information Technology Industry Council’s (ITI) Standardization Policy Committee.