The XBRL Standards Board (XSB) is responsible for managing the production of the consortium’s technical materials. It is charged with setting priorities for the creation of new material and ensuring all material is of a uniformly high quality, with the goal of accelerating adoption of XBRL around the world.
The XSB manages the work of technical working groups which are responsible for developing and maintaining the standard which are Base Specification and Maintenance, Rendering, Formula, and Versioning. The XSB also manages the work of domain specific working groups which are focused on Global Ledger and Corporate Actions.
For information on how to get involved with the XSB or the XSB Working Groups please visit Get Involved.
The XSB can be contacted using xsb@xbrl.org.
Richard Bössen
Chair
Richard Bössen is a digital reporting XBRL expert and joined the EFRAG staff in April 2023 and is responsible for the development of digital sustainability XBRL taxonomies (ESRS and Article 8). Before Richard joined EFRAG, he was Head of XBRL at AMANA consulting and with his team he developed the XBRL Engine and XBRL reporting software solutions for large, listed companies, audit firms and supervisory authorities.
David Bell
Member
Mark Goodhand
Member
Austin Matherne
Member
Austin Matherne is a staff engineer at Workiva, where he serves as the technical lead for the open-source XBRL platform, Arelle. In this role, he is responsible for charting the long-term technical strategy and direction of Arelle as well as overseeing the development and maintenance of many of Workiva’s internal XBRL services.
With over a decade of experience in the XBRL space, he excels at translating XBRL specifications into robust, functional software. He is also dedicated to mentoring engineers who are new to the XBRL domain.
Campbell Pryde
Member
Campbell Pryde brings significant experience in technology development, accounting and finance to XBRL US. Before taking on the President and CEO position, Mr. Pryde led the development and maintenance of taxonomies as Chief Standards Officer, playing an integral role on the executive team. Mr. Pryde joined XBRL US from Morgan Stanley, where as Executive Director in the Institutional Securities Group, he managed the equity research XBRL-based valuation framework. He has been involved with XBRL since 2001, and served as Chairman of the XBRL US Domain Steering Committee during the critical initial build of the US GAAP Taxonomy under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Pryde was a Partner in the Risk and Advisory Practice of KPMG LLP. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Scott Theis
Member
Scott serves as the President and CEO of Novaworks, LLC, a leading provider of EDGAR submission software, including data aggregation and XBRL preparation tools. His background is in software and system development, principally with SEC EDGAR, HTML, XML forms, and XBRL. Scott is the leader of the XBRL Technical Advisory Committee (XTAC) for XBRL US. He also has served as a member of the XBRL US Domain Steering Committee since 2009 and as Chairman of the committee since 2015. Scott has been a part of the EDGAR industry for four decades, beginning with his efforts in representing the interests of EDGAR filers during the process of designing the EDGAR System. Since the SEC’s adoption of XBRL for regulatory reporting, Scott has taken active roles in working to improve the quality of XBRL data, as well as expanding the application of XBRL within the financial reporting industry.
Johan Walters
Member
Michal Zubrycki
Member
Michal Zubrycki is the Head of Standards at BR-AG. He advises public institutions (regulators and supervisors), software vendors and reporting institutions on implementation of information exchange solutions utilizing XBRL technologies. He has extensive knowledge in the areas of development, implementation and quality assurance of electronic dictionaries and taxonomies. Michal has the expertise in various other electronic formats, including SDMX for statistical data exchange, as well as ISO 20022 widely used in the transactional reporting in the securities space and in payments.
Michal is also contributing to the field of global standardization in the financial markets, through its memberships in the Banking Financial Services Technical Committee under Polish Normalization Committee, as well as in the SC9/WG4 “Revision of ISO 20022” under ISO Technical Committee 68.
