The Nominations Committee (NomCom) develops and oversees the procedures for recruitment, nominations, appointments and elections of all Board positions within XBRL International. These include the Board of Directors (BoD), the XBRL Standards Board (XSB) and the Best Practices Board (BPB).
The Nominations Committee is concerned with and plays a pivotal role in the proper governance of the consortium, and reports to the Member Assembly.
The Committee can be contacted using nominate@xbrl.org.
Yoshiaki Wada
Chair
Yoshiaki Wada joined the Bank of Japan in 1982, and had worked for Statistics and Economic Research Department, IT System Department, Secretariat for Policy Board, Financial System and Bank Supervision Department. In 2010, he joined NTT DATA Corporation, and currently being in charge of the development of new financial technologies including Regtech/Suptech based on XBRL/XML, Non-SQL Data Base. After serving as the Vice Chair for the Board of Directors of XBRL International, he is currently the Chair for the XBRL Asia Round Table and the member of Nomination Committee.
Hudson Hollister
Member
Hudson Hollister is the Co-Founder and CEO of HData, which uses XBRL to help the U.S. energy industry manage and understand its regulatory information.
Mardi McBrien
Member
is a Director at the IFRS Foundation where she is currently playing an active role in setting up the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Prior to the IFRS Foundation, Mardi spent over a decade leading the global ESG standard setter, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and the multi-award-winning team to develop high quality disclosure standards and thought leadership on environmental and social issues to drive greater consistency and comparability of information reported to capital markets. Mardi has enjoyed a vibrant career which involved her leading high profile flagship environmental campaigns for WWF, to working on the United Kingdom’s carbon market policy for their Department for Energy and Climate Change and public private partnership management. Originally qualifying as a forester and environmental scientist in Australia (Melbourne University) and agricultural economist (UK, SOAS), her volunteer activities include being the trustee of one of the oldest environmental NGOs in the world, the International Tree Foundation, a founding Board member of WOCAN – Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management / W+ Standard, a school governor and a member of the ICAEW Sustainability Advisory Committee. Mardi was awarded UK environmental campaigner of the year by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation in 2013 and in 2021 and was selected as one of the ESG Foundation’s ones to watch.
Karla McKenna
Member
Karla McKenna is an international standards specialist in the area of financial services. Ms. McKenna is Managing Director, GLEIF Americas, as well as Head of Standards for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. Ms. McKenna is responsible for the digital strategy for the LEI, concentrating on Organizational Identity and Organizational Credentials – the verifiable LEI (vLEI), for facilitating the development and implementation of GLEIF standards and leveraging international standards to maximize data quality and the operational integrity of the Global LEI System.
Ms. McKenna chaired the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 68 (ISO/TC 68), Financial services, from 2006 to 2018 and continues ISO work in the areas of standards
interoperability, regulatory use of international standards as co-convenor of the TC 68 Standards Advisory Group.
Ms. McKenna is a member of the inaugural Board of the Eurofiling Foundation, Immediate Past Chair of the Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG), has served on the Boards of the International
Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) and the Accredited Standards Committee X9 (ASC X9) and previously was a member of the XII Board in 2012.
