Roger Bradford is Practice Manager for Semantic Processing at Agilex Technologies. He has over twenty years experience in information retrieval and ten years experience in the application of semantic processing techniques. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and a Master's Degree in Mathematics. He also holds five patents in the field of semantic processing. He was a Technical Fellow at SAIC, where he worked for 20 years. While at SAIC he was twice the winner of the annual Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Mr. Bradford has an international reputation in the field of information retrieval. He has presented invited talks in this area at numerous technical conferences in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Australia.