Colin Evans

Intel Digital Health Group is responsible for development of Intel’s platforms for consumer health, digital hospital, and bio-medical industries. In his role as Director of Policy and Standards, Evans is responsible for Intel’s efforts to cooperate with industry and legislative stakeholders to drive policy development and with industry partners to create platform standards. His group was responsible for creating both the Continua Health Alliance formed to create agreement on consumer health platform and device interoperability worldwide and the Dossia Consortium that brings together major US employers to develop the their shared infrastructure for personal, private, and portable health records.

Evans has been with Intel for 26 years and, before joining Digital Health Group, held a variety of management positions in Europe and the US in a broad spectrum of disciplines including information technology, business applications development, marketing, e-Business architecture, and system software research. In his most recent role Evans led Intel’s Corporate Technology Group research labs focused on virtualization, trust, and content protection technologies and hosted Intel’s research on Proactive Health aimed at the development of platforms for home health monitoring.

Evans has represented Intel in the leadership of a number of industry standards initiatives. He chaired the Board of Directors of Oasis, an international consortium driving XML interoperability, and played a central role in the creation of RosettaNet, a multi-company initiative focused on building Internet-based supply chains for the information technology, electronic components, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. For several years, Evans served as chair of RosettaNet’s Executive Board and is currently the President of the Dossia Consortium.

Prior to joining Intel, Evans was involved in business applications development in the semiconductor, electric utility and pharmaceutical industries.

Evans obtained his degree in Computer Science at Manchester University in the United Kingdom, and is an alumnus of INSEAD, France.