Official announcements have confirmed that Dr. Jeff Jaffe is the new CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. He brings with him a long and impressive resume, and lots of substantial experience, which make him perfect for the job.

Dr. Jaffe has a resume filled with jobs that required him to be skilled at building partnerships and finding consensus, and such business and inter-person skills will be critical for the newly appointed CEO's success in his latest job role.

W3C has still managed to retain Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who first initiative the World Wide Web, and has been the technology's guiding-light ever since.

"My most immediate priority is to preserve and enhance the W3C culture of having an open consensus-based process. This works well today, but I also need an effective and open high-bandwidth communications path with the large, diverse, and global set of stakeholders of the W3C", Dr. Jaffe wrote in a recent blog post.

Dr. Jaffe has substantial experience working for big names like Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories and IBM.

He has spent many successful years building partnerships, both business and personal, with friends, competitors and customers.