Donald S. Skupsky
President
Information Requirements Clearinghouse
Legal Requirements for Electronic Records

Bio

Donald S. Skupsky JD, CRM, FAI, MIT is President of Information Requirements Clearinghouse (Denver, Colorado). He is the author of Recordkeeping Requirements, Records Retention Procedures, Legal Requirements for Information Technology Systems, and Law, Records and Information Management: The Court Cases. Mr. Skupsky is also the developer of RetentionManager^TM, the sophisticated records retention software and the editor of Legal Requirements for Business Records: The Electronic Edition, a CD-ROM publication for researching federal, state and international law and court cases related to recordkeeping and records retention.

Mr. Skupsky is a Records and Information Management Consultant. He also serves as Director of Legal Research for Iron Mountain Consulting Services.

Mr. Skupsky received the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and has been admitted to the bar in Colorado and Michigan. He is also a Certified Record Manager (CRM). Mr. Skupsky also received the prestigious Emmett Leahy Award in 1994 from the Institute of Certified Records Managers for outstanding contributions to the information and records management profession. In 1995, he was admitted to the Company of Fellows of ARMA, International — the highest honor bestowed by the association. In 1999, he was awarded the Masters of Information Technology by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).

Mr. Skupsky has served the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) as Chairman of the U.S. Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee, Chairman of the Records Retention Standards Subcommittee, and Contributing Editor to the Records Management Quarterly. He has also served as a contributing member of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) Task Force on a Performance Guideline for the Legal Acceptance of Records Produced by Information Technology Systems.