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Dion Almaer, Palm
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Matt Aslett, Analyst, The 451 Group
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Matt Asay, COO, Canonical
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Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM
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Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Ubuntu
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Virginia Tsai Badenhope, Associate General Counsel, BigFix
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Bob Bearden, Executive in Residence, Benchmark Capital
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Robert Blasi, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
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Ed Boyajian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise DB
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Erica Brescia, CEO, BitRock
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John Brockland, Partner, Dewey LeBoeuf LLP
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Dries Buytaert, CTO & Co-Founder, Acquia
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Wim Coekaerts, Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle
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Peter Coffee, Director Platform Research, Salesforce.com
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Catalin Cosovanu, Senior Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosatti
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Andrew Cotter, CIO, Somerset Capital
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Satish Dharmaraj, General Partner, Redpoint Ventures
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Justin Erenkantz, President, Apache Software Foundation
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Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark
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Andy Fletcher, First Data, US Infrastructure Architecture Team
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Jurgen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange
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Brian Goldfarb, Lead Product Manager, Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft
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Timothy M. Golden, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
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Jeffrey Hammond, Senior Analyst, Forrester
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Kamal Hassin, Director of Technology and Product Management, Protecode
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Paula Hunter, Executive Director, CodePlex Foundation
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Peter Jackson, President and Chief Executive Officer, GroundWork Open Source
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Eric Knorr, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld
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Monica Kumar, Senior Director, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Oracle
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Joe Lacik, Senior Vice President of Information Services, Aviall Services, Inc.
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Jay Lyman, Analyst, The 451 Group
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Chris Mattmann, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Dave Mcallister, Director, Open Source and Standards, Adobe
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Stuart McKee, National Technology Officer for the United States, Microsoft
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Heather Meeker, Partner, Greenberg Traurig
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Carlos Montero-Luque, Vice President of Business and Product Management for Open Platform Solutions, Novell
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Ashish Morzaria, Senior Product Manager - Emerging Strategies Group, SAP
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Jeffery Norman, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
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Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera
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Tim O'Reilly, President, O'Reilly Media
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Curt Pederson, Vice Provost of Information Services and CIO, Oregon State University
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Geva Perry, Blogger and strategic Cloud Advisor
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Brian Prentice, Research Vce President, Gartner
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Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper, LLP
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Sam Ramji, VP Strategy, Sonoa
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David Recordon, Head of Open Source Initiatives, Facebook
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Dave Rosenberg, Blogger, CNET
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Karen Sandler, Attorney, Software Freedom Law Center
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Ravi Simhambhatla, CIO, Virgin America
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Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
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Roman Stanek, CEO, Good Data Corporation
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Jean Staten Healy, Director of Cross-IBM Linux Strategy & Marketing, IBM
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Paul Steadman, Intellectual Property Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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Bob Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM
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Zack Urlocker, Former EVP, MySQL
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James Urquhart, Platform Evangelist, Cisco
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Ashlee Vance, Reporter, The New York Times
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Robin Vasan, General Partner, Mayfield
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Claus von Riegen, Director Technology Standards and Open Source, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG
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John Weathersby, Jr., Executive Director, Open Source Software Institute
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Kim Weins, SVP Products and Marketing, OpenLogic
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Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer, Red Hat
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Deb Woods, Vice President, Product Management, Ingres
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Steve Wretling, Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture, Kaiser Permanente
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Tim Yeaton, CEO & President, Black Duck Software
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Matt Aslett, Analyst, The 451 Group
Matthew covers data management software for The 451 Group, including relational and nonrelational databases, data warehousing and event processing. Matthew is also an expert in open source software and contributes regularly to reports produced through the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, as well as to the 451 CAOS Theory blog. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Matthew was Deputy Editor of monthly magazine Computer Business Review and ComputerWire's daily news service. There he covered Linux and open source software and launched the successful Open Source Weblog in January 2006. Matthew started in IT journalism in 1997 as a staff writer with monthly magazine Unix and NT News, where he became editor in 2000. He has also contributed to a number of other publications, including Unigram/X, IBM System User and JavaVision. Matthew holds a BA in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University in the UK.
Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator, Compiere, DeviceVM, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho and SugarCRM. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX) serving as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in December 1999.
Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Ubuntu
Jono Bacon is the Ubuntu Community Manager and a leader author and speaker on community management, governance and growth. He wrote The Art Of Community by O'Reilly and is the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit. He co-founded the award-winning LugRadio and Shot Of Jaq podcasts, is a regular presenter on FLOSSWeekly, has written three other books and has written for over 15 magazines. He lives in the Bay Area, California.
Virginia Tsai Badenhope, Associate General Counsel, BigFix
Virginia Badenhope just transitioned from commerical practice to corporate practice, signing on last fall as Associate General Counsel for BigFix, a medium-sized software company. Previously, she was a Senior Associate with Smithline Jha LLP for five years. She is also is a former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate and securities associate. Working in WSGR's Palo Alto, CA office, Virginia helped guide clients through mergers & acquisitions, private and public financings and regulatory compliance with the SEC and NASDAQ. After WSGR, Virginia served as corporate counsel with VERITAS Software Corporation (later merged with Symantec Corp.) in Mountain View, CA, on a full-time, in-house contract basis. Virginia began her legal career as an associate with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston, MA.
Virginia received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Stanford University and a JD from Boston College Law School. Virginia presented on legal issues in open source at LinuxWorld in 2007 and has been a guest lecturer at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Virginia is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts.
Robert Blasi, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Robert Blasi is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Intellectual Property Practice. As a patent attorney, he assists high-technology clients with open source software issues, intellectual property protection, licensing and intellectual property issues arising in corporate transactions.
Ed Boyajian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise DB
Before joining EnterpriseDB, Ed spent six years at Red Hat®, Inc., the world's leading open source solutions provider, most recently serving as vice president and general manager of North America. Before that, he was vice president of Red Hat's global OEM business, responsible for all partnerships, including HP®, IBM®, and Dell®. During his time at Red Hat, Ed was instrumental in developing the foundational methods for selling open source software into the enterprise.
Prior to Red Hat, Ed held executive sales and marketing positions at ArsDigita, an early leader in open source software for building database-backed community websites (acquired by Red Hat) and ServiceSoft (now Kana). Ed is a former U.S. Army Captain, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his undergraduate degree from Boston University.
Erica Brescia, CEO, BitRock
Erica Brescia is the CEO of BitRock, the leader in multiplatform software deployment automation. Through the BitNami.org portal it has simplified native, virtual and cloud installations of popular open source software. Since joining the company in early 2005, Erica has been instrumental in positioning BitRock at the forefront of the software packaging and deployment space and earning the business of the leading commercial open source vendors. Prior to joining BitRock, Erica managed several sales teams for T-Mobile and served as a liaison to the mobile enthusiast community. In the past she held positions as an Analyst at Oakwood Worldwide and as a consultant with Chekiang First Bank in Hong Kong, where she helped to plan the launch of its internet banking service. Erica has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
John Brockland, Partner, Dewey LeBoeuf LLP
John Brockland is a Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf in the IT & IP Transactional Practice. His practice focuses on strategic and commercial transactions involving the development, transfer and licensing of technology assets, and the provision of technology-related services. He has broad experience representing companies ranging from startups to multinational public companies in the software, semiconductor, Internet, renewable energy, healthcare and other industries. His practice includes a broad variety of intellectual property related transactions, and he has advised numerous clients on issues relating to free and open source software licensing models. John can be reached at + 1-650-845-7175 or by email at jbrockland@dl.com.
Dries Buytaert, CTO & Co-Founder, Acquia
Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp. In 2008, Buytaert was elected Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek as well as MIT TR 35 Young Innovator.
Wim Coekaerts, Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle
Wim Coekaerts is the Vice President of Linux Engineering for Oracle Corporation, where he leads the team responsible for both Oracle VM server virtualization and Oracle Unbreakable Linux support. Mr. Coekaerts joined Oracle Belgium in 1995 as a technical engineer for Oracle Support Services. In 1997, he moved to Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California where he held various positions in program management for Oracle's worldwide solutions support group. Two years later he began work on the prototype of Oracle Database Appliance, focused on the tight integration of the database with operating system such as Solaris and Linux.
Peter Coffee, Director Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as an analyst and columnist at the enterprise technology journal eWEEK (including time under its former title PC Week). Based in the Los Angeles area, he currently works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Peter has 27 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author. Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space systems project management and in space-asset applications of artificial intelligence techniques. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer working in arctic project planning, chemical facility construction management, and alternative-fuels engineering for several divisions of Exxon Corporation.
He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, where he also served as a faculty member for the core curriculum in IT management; he has held other faculty appointments in computer science (artificial intelligence) at UCLA and in business analytics at Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How To Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.
Catalin Cosovanu, Senior Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosatti
Catalin Cosovanu is an associate in the technology transactions practice of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. He has represented clients ranging from start-ups to established companies in industries and sectors including software (both open source and closed source, and both business and end user, with traditional licensing as well as software-as-a-service models), hardware (including networking, sensors, semiconductors, and memory), content distribution and clearance, new media, and clean technology. Catalin has prepared, reviewed, and negotiated a wide range of transactions involving the design, development, manufacturing, distribution, and support of technology, business and consumer products, content, and services. In addition, he has counseled clients on intellectual property matters in connection with investments, financings, asset purchases and sales, and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining the firm in March 2006, Catalin was an attorney at Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York. His prior legal experience also includes an internship with New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Andrew Cotter, CIO, Somerset Capital
Andrew Cotter joined Somerset in 2002 and is responsible for information technology operations. He establishes, plans and administers the overall policies and goals for the information technology department as well as helps business operations utilize information systems to improve efficiency.
Prior to joining Somerset, Mr. Cotter owned a full service technology services organization, distinguishing itself through a unique mix of hardware, software, networking and internet skills with customers ranging from small architectural firms, medium size capital markets organizations, medical and microelectronics firms to non-profit organizations.
Mr. Cotter earned his bachelor of fine arts in architectural studies and design from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998.
Justin Erenkantz, President, Apache Software Foundation
Justin R. Erenkrantz is currently President of The Apache Software Foundation. He is also CTO of Project WBS and received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. He has been a long-time contributor to the Apache HTTP Server, Subversion, APR, Serf, mod_mbox, and flood.
Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark
Peter Fenton, General Partner, joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media and technology enabled services.
Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.
Peter received an MBA from Stanford Business School, Arjay Miller Scholar and a BA from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.
Andy Fletcher, First Data, US Infrastructure Architecture Team
Andy Flethcher has been working at First Data the last eleven years in the Hunt Valley, Maryland office. Andy, as a Director, managed software engineers and system administrators in the configuration management and change deployment arena for both distributed systems and mainframe systems. Over the last two years, Andy has been a member of the Global Infrastructure Architecture & Governance team. In this role, he worked on refining and formalizing First Data’s open source policy. Currently, Andy manages the open source governance process at First Data utilizing the OpenLogic OLEX application.
Jurgen Geck, CTO, Open-Xchange
Jurgen Geck is responsible for continued development and communication of the company's technology strategies. He brings a distinguished background in open source and technology management to Open-Xchange.
Before Jurgen joined Open-Xchange, he spent 10 years with Suse Linux as Vice president Technology Partners and CTO. He built strong alliances with AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP and introduced in 2002 Suse's Technology Partner Program to provide a scalable offering for all Suse partners.
As CTO, Jurgen was instrumental in designing Suse's flagship product, Suse Linux Enterprise Server and its maintenance model, enabling the first enterprise Linux offering in the market. Jurgen is also one of the founders of Eclipse.org. Jurgen holds a masters degree in production engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany.
Timothy M. Golden, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Tim Golden has over 20 years of IT management experience designing and implementing major infrastructure projects, both as a consultant working for IBM and currently as a senior vice president at Bank of America. His technical background ranges from software development to data center operations. In his present role as the Director of Infrastructure & Platform Product Management, Tim works extensively with Linux and other open source software technologies and has led several enterprise efforts including the development of Open Source stack architectures, the creation of an in-house Open Source software management and reuse portal, and the enterprise deployment of over 350 Open Source development tools, infrastructure applications, management frameworks, automation facilities and business software applications.
Tim has a bachelor's degree in business management from St. Mary's College located in Moraga, CA. He is a board member and customer advisor to several Open Source software companies and performs Open Source business consulting engagements for select clients.
Brian Goldfarb, Lead Product Manager, Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft
Brian Goldfarb is the Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms at Microsoft. Brian and his team are focused on product planning, business strategy and global marketing for the platforms that developers and designers use for building the next generation of applications for Windows, the Web and devices including Silverlight, .NET, IIS and more. The platforms team also manages vertical efforts in the Media, Advertising and Enterprise space as it relates to our UX technologies like Silverlight and WPF. Brian graduated with degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.
Kamal Hassin, Director of Technology and Product Management, Protecode
Kamal Hassin is Director of Technology and Product Management at Protecode where he is responsible for current and future product portfolio capabilities. For several years, he has worked extensively in the space of software licensing and IP management to understand the technical, business, and legal drivers of open source. Kamal has become an expert in clean IP through his work with academics, lawyers, and software enterprises around the world. Kamal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree Masters degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University.
Paula Hunter, Executive Director, CodePlex Foundation
Paula Hunter brings a compelling combination of industry insight, executive-level business savvy and experience working with not-for-profits to the position of Executive Director. Previously Hunter served as Director of Operations for SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide. Prior to SEMPO, Hunter was director of worldwide marketing and business development for the Open Source Development Labs, where she was instrumental in driving membership growth of industry advocacy group and lead initiatives to increase industry awareness and engage large enterprise IT organizations with OSDL programs. Previously, Hunter was general manager of UnitedLinux, a joint venture formed to create a unified Linux offering. She began her career at Digital Equipment Corporation, where she managed marketing programs for DEC's UNIX Workstation and PC product lines. Hunter received a BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University.
Peter Jackson, President and Chief Executive Officer,
GroundWork Open Source
Peter Jackson has a knack for turning fledgling companies instilled with great business model into very profitable market leaders. He has accomplished this several times over during the last 20 years. Known as a mature market disruptor, Peter finds the one thing makes a big difference to the customer and makes that the company's core focus.
Peter joined GroundWork Open Source in January of 2009 because he understood the company's value based on the market potential and already proven disruptive model. GroundWork's foundation, built on it's unique open source project amalgamation strategy and business model matched Peter's profile of a company poised to become the next market leader in an ever-commoditizing IT management sector. Lastly, he was excited about the employee culture and strong customer base plus the great experiences and active involvement that the cofounders contributed to the business.
He's been the chairman, CEO and president of Intraware Inc., the premier provider of on-demand delivery solution since 1996. Keynote Intraware customers included IBM, Adobe, AutoDesk and EMC. Jackson took Intraware public, undergone private funding rounds, grew the revenue to $100MM in sales and services and eventually sold Intraware in January 2009.
Previous to Intraware, Peter was the president and CEO of Dataflex, Inc — a full service systems integrator who had revenues over $400MM and lead the sale to Vanstar. Prior, Peter was the CEO, President and Director of Granite Systems, Inc. which became one of the largest service and product suppliers for HP, Apple, IBM, Compaq and Microsoft.
Peter graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has won the 1998 Red Herring Entrepreneur of the Year award and has twice been a finalist to the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Monica Kumar, Senior Director, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Oracle
Monica Kumar is senior director of Linux, Virtualization and Open Source Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation. She leads a team responsible for driving the product marketing, business development,, customer and sales support strategies. She is also responsible for strategic marketing partnerships with hardware and software vendors. As an evangelist for Linux, virtualization and open source, Ms. Kumar often represents Oracle in customer, partner and industry events. Prior to her role in the Linux Program Office, Ms. Kumar managed global partner alliances as well as worked in Oracle's Database Product Marketing and Server Technologies Division in various product marketing and product management roles. Prior to joining Oracle more than a decade ago, Ms. Kumar spent five years in various roles within the Product Marketing division at Informix Corp. Ms. Kumar has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree in Business Administration.
Joe Lacik, Senior Vice President of Information Services,
Aviall Services, Inc.
Mr. Lacik currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Information Services for Aviall. Aviall is the world’s largest independent provider of after market supply chain management services in the aerospace industry. In September 2006 Aviall was purchased be Boeing as a wholly owned subsidiary. In 2002 ComputerWorld’s Laureate Honors Program recognized Aviall and Mr. Lacik. InfoWorld recognized Aviall’s IT team assembled by Mr. Lacik as one of the Top 100 in the World for 2002.
Mr. Lacik attended Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. In 1977 he received a bachelor of arts in sociology and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. While serving, he also earned his masters of arts in business management in 1981 from Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. During his time in the Corps he served aboard various ships and in duty stations worldwide. Captain Lacik was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on behalf of the President. In 1990 Captain Lacik left the Corps to join SPRINT in Kansas City, Kansas.
In 1994 Mr. Lacik was recruited to be the Vice President of Information Technology at Cameron Ashley Building Products in Dallas, Texas, where he was an Officer of the company. He helped grow the revenue of the company from $200 million to over $1 billion annually. In 1997, Mr. Lacik was recruited to be the Chief Information Officer and Vice President of PRONET located in Dallas, Texas. At the time, PRONET was the fifth largest wireless messaging company in the country. In 1998 PRONET was purchased by Metrocall, located in Alexandria, Virginia. He was promoted to the position of Vice President of Strategic Information Systems.
In 1999 Mr. Lacik was recruited to be the Senior Director of Information Technology at AMFM, a $3.2 billion entertainment company. He played a key role in the highly profitable and successful sale of the company. Once again he created a new technology strategy and team. He was also part of a major E-commerce initiative. While at AMFM he was recruited to his current position as Senior Vice President of Information Services at Aviall, located in Dallas, Texas.
Jay Lyman, Analyst, The 451 Group
Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing on Linux operating systems and distributors, virtualization, cloud computing and generally free and open source software created by communities and used by enterprise organizations. Coverage includes the software itself, the communities and the emerging business and licensing trends.
Chris Mattmann, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Chris Mattmann has a wealth of experience in software design and in the construction of large-scale data-intensive systems. His work has infected a broad set of communities, ranging from helping NASA unlock data from its next generation of earth science system satellites, to assisting graduate students at the University of Southern California (his alma mater) in the study of software architecture, all the way to helping industry and open source as a member of the Apache Lucene Project Management Committee (PMC).
When he¹s not busy being busy, he¹s spending time with his lovely wife and son braving the mean streets of Southern California.
Dave Mcallister, Director, Open Source and Standards, Adobe
As director, Open Source and Standards (OSS) for Core Services at Adobe Systems, Dave is focused on the company’s long-term strategic direction as it relates to leveraging standards and open-source technologies to differentiate Adobe. McAllister is Adobe’s representative to Ecma International, and is also an active member of the W3C eGovernment efforts,.
McAllister came to Adobe in 2006. Prior to joining Adobe, he founded Open Source Business Technologies, a consultancy that helps venture capital firms understand the commercial opportunities created by open-source technologies. Before starting his own firm, McAllister co-founded software maker Cassatt Corp. Earlier in his career, he served as vice president and general manager of NEC’s server business in the U.S, launching NEC into the Linux HPC space in the US. He helped create the blade server market as an early member of Egenera. He spent almost 10 years at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he started as a kernel engineer. Over his time in SGI, he managed most of the software development products, compilers and tools, and was the principal person that brought Linux and open source into SGI.
He often speaks on topics such as the legal and technical issues associated with open-source software, as well as on virtualization, creating new technology companies. Well versed in trivia, he won a Golden Penguin in 2002. He has held seats on Advisory Boards for Sistina, Woven Systems, Pathworks, Zetera and ConcreteCMS.
He is currently on the Reader Advisory Board for Linux Journal.
Stuart McKee, National Technology Officer for the United States, Microsoft
Stuart McKee joined Microsoft as the U.S. National Technology Officer in June 2004. He is responsible for driving a comprehensive set of technical and business strategies for the U.S. Public Sector State and Local segment. As the NTO, he has both an internal as well as an external focus – shaping and articulating Microsoft's technology vision and strategy.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Stuart served as the Director of the Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS) on Governor Gary Locke’s executive cabinet. As the DIS Director, he served as Chief Information Officer for the state and managed an internationally recognized agency which provides technology leadership and infrastructure for government organizations across Washington State. Stuart also worked as the VP of Global Internet Operations for the Walt Disney Company where he directed operations for a number of the Internet’s most visible sites including ESPN.com, Disney.com, ABCNews.com and GO.com.
Heather Meeker, Partner, Greenberg Traurig
Heather J. Meeker's practice focuses on intellectual property transactions for technology clients. Heather's clients cover a range of industries including software, communications, educational testing, computer equipment and medical devices. She has wide-ranging experience in open source licensing strategies, and in intellectual property matters related to mergers and acquisitions.
Carlos Montero-Luque, Vice President of Business and Product Management for Open Platform Solutions, Novell
Carlos Montero-Luque is the Vice President of Business and Product Management for Open Platform Solutions at Novell, where he leads the team responsible for Novell's Linux product portfolio. Prior to this role, Carlos was CTO of Novell's Identity Business Unit and Vice President of Engineering for the ZENworks product suite. Carlos joined Novell from the acquisition of Ximian. Prior to Ximian, Carlos held a variety of positions in consulting and engineering at companies such as Inktomi Corp., Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation (acquired by Borland) and the Open Software Foundation. Carlos holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, a Master's Degree in Government from Harvard University, and is a GMP graduate from Harvard Business School.
Ashish Morzaria, Senior Product Manager - Emerging Strategies Group, SAP
Ashish C. Morzaria is a Senior Product Manager within the Emerging Technologies Group at SAP. At Business Objects (acquired by SAP), Mr. Morzaria was responsible for initially creating and driving the company's Linux strategy in 2005 – Linux is now its #2 operating system. He is currently driving the enterprise strategy behind some of SAP’s online collaborative decision making products and is responsible for solving the IT challenges companies face when bridging the gap between Cloud Computing and the Enterprise.
Jeffery Norman, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Jeffery Norman is an intellectual property partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on complex technology-related transactions and litigation. He works with private equity firms, Fortune 500 technology companies, and rapidly growing computer hardware, software and pharmaceutical businesses.
Mr. Norman leads negotiations and provides strategic intellectual property counseling in a variety of contexts, including international and domestic joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset carve-out and spin-off transactions, research and development, manufacturing, patent licensing, and software development and licensing. He also handles complex litigation involving software patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark and general commercial disputes.
Mr. Norman worked as a C language programmer prior to law school, and has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles in the area of artificial intelligence and legal reasoning.
Mr. Norman received both his J.D. and A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed upper-level coursework in computer science, engineering and physics.
Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera
Michael Olson is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company. Prior to founding Cloudera, Olson was CEO of Sleepycat Software through its acquisition by Oracle in 2006, and served as Vice President, Embedded Technologies at Oracle through January 2008. Olson has held technical and business leadership positions at a number of database companies in his career, including Britton Lee, Illustra and Informix. He holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Tim O'Reilly, President, O'Reilly Media
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, widely considered one of the top computer book publishers in the world. The company also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source, open standards, and sensible intellectual property laws.
Since 1978, Tim has led the company's pursuit of its core goal: to be a catalyst for technology change by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of "alpha geeks" and other innovators. His active engagement with technology communities drives both the company's product development and its marketing. Tim has built a culture where advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism are key tenets of the business philosophy.
Curt Pederson, Vice Provost and CIO, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Curt Pederson has been Vice Provost for Information Services and CIO at Oregon State University (OSU) since 1997. OSU responsibilities include: network services; enterprise computing; central web; media services; desktop support; and the open source lab. Since 2004 he has also been responsible for hosting enterprise computing services to four other public universities and technology support for several Oregon University System offices.
Prior to joining Oregon State University, Curt served as Oregon’s first state CIO, associate director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, and over 20 years in several leadership roles with Snohomish County PUD. In both Oregon and Washington he has been recognized for his success in leading several innovative and turn-around projects.
Brian Prentice, Research Vce President, Gartner
Brian Prentice is a Research Vice President with Gartner’s Application Strategy team. He focuses on the trends driving an increased focus on simplicity and design in software along with intellectual property related IT issues - such as open source and software patents - and their impact on existing IT governance structures.
Brian has been an analyst with Gartner for over 7 years. Prior to becoming an analyst, he worked in the IT vendor community for seventeen years including organizations such as Apple Computer, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus, IBM Microsoft and Onyx Software. A native of Silicon Valley and a second-generation IT industry worker, Brian now resides in Sydney, Australia and travels extensively across the Asia Pacific region.
Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper LLP
Mark Radcliffe is a senior partner, practicing corporate securities and intellectual property at DLA Piper, which has more than 3,500 lawyers in more than 25 countries and 65 cities. Mark earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. His practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He has worked with many open source companies and is Chair of the Open Source Industry Group at the firm. He assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. He works with both large and small companies resolving legal issues related to open source software. He also serves as outside General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative and was the Chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3. His blog at www.lawandlifesiliconvalley.com/blog frequently deals with open source issues.
David Recordon, Head of Open Source Initiatives, Facebook
David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. He collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the Web. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.
Dave Rosenberg, Blogger, CNET
Dave Rosenberg is the co-founder and former CEO of MuleSource (now MuleSoft), an open source infrastructure software provider. During his tenure, he led the company through two rounds of venture funding totaling $16.5 million and grew the organization to more than 50 employees.
Prior to founding MuleSource, Rosenberg was the first employee and Chief Information Officer for Glass Lewis & Co., a leading investment research and proxy advisory firm. He also served as Principal Analyst for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux. Previous roles include technology and marketing positions at Sprint, OmniSky, NorthPoint Communications, and Lucent Technologies.
Rosenberg currently writes the Software Interrupted blog on CNET (http://news.cnet.com/software-interrupted) and contributes regularly to leading industry and business publications, including InfoWorld and The Register. Rosenberg holds a BA from Rutgers University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Karen Sandler, Attorney, Software Freedom Law Center
Karen Sandler is an attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and serves as an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Prior to joining SFLC, she worked as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Clifford Chance. Sandler received her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Sandler received her bachelor's degree in engineering from The Cooper Union.
Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002 to seek out great entrepreneurs and lead innovative software investments. Prior to this, Michael had himself been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for 21 years. He founded, led and attracted over $100M in private equity to his investments in several successful software companies ranging from CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging and Collaboration, Security and Analytics and spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.
As a Venture Capitalist, Michael has backed many great entrepreneurs supporting them to focus on large market changing technologies and disruptive business models such as SaaS, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source and new application areas arising from new media, such as Social Marketing Automation. As a result, he is currently active on the boards of all his recent investments including Acquia (Professional Drupal Open Source), Active Endpoints (Business Process Management System-BPMS), Akiba (Stealth - Virtual Database for Scale Out/Cloud), Awareness (Social Marketing Automation), Demandware (eCommerce, Marketing and Merchandising on Demand),rPath (Datacenter Automation through Automated Release Management) and Unidesk (Desktop Virtualization Management), as well as Actifio (Stealth - Cloud Storage) and REvolution Computing (Commercial Open Source "R").
Previously, Michael has served on many private and public company boards, as well as supported various software industry groups such as Software Publishers Association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He can be contacted at michael@northbridge.com.
Jean Staten Healy, Director, Cross-IBM Linux Strategy, IBM
Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. In this role she coordinates the cross-company strategy for Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux space.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy was the Director of Marketing Strategy in the IBM Software Group, Director of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, Director of Innovation Initiatives at IBM Corporate Headquarters. and the IBM Customer Advocate in the Office of the Chairman and CEO.
In addition, she has held management positions in the IBM Global Services Group. Ms. Staten Healy has lived and worked in Asia. She holds a M.S. degree in theoretical linguistics and a J.D. with a certificate of concentration in International Law. Ms. Staten Healy is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut and is a published author on various legal topics.
Paul Steadman, Intellectual Property Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Paul Steadman is an intellectual property partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. A first-chair trial lawyer, he works primarily on complex patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and other IP-related litigation matters. He has been trial counsel to clients in jury trials, Federal and state court appeals, Markmanand other evidentiary hearings, mediations, and arbitrations. His public representations include appearances in patent cases for American clients including Garmin Ltd., International Truck & Engine Co., Sturman Industries, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc., Magellan Navigation, Inc., and BCE Emergis Inc., and Pacific Rim clients including DENSO CORPORATION, Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc., Kubota Corp., Minolta Corp., Nichia Corp., Rohm Co., Ltd. and Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
Mr. Steadman received his B.S. in Materials Science Engineering and Economics from Rice University. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Bob Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM
Dr. Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Open Source and Linux in IBM's Software Group. In this role he has the responsibility for driving the IBM strategy, sales enablement, and technical pre-sales for software running on Linux and other open source environments. He works with customers, partners, government leaders, analysts, and the press to understand the value of adopting business-critical open source and Linux. A 27 year veteran of IBM, Bob worked in IBM Research for 15 years on mathematical computation systems and for the last ten years have led efforts around standards, open source, web services, and services oriented architecture. He has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in Mathematics.
Zack Urlocker, Former EVP, MySQL
Zack Urlocker has worked for 25 years in the software industry and has held executive positions in engineering and marketing at a range of enterprise software companies. Previously, Urlocker held the title of executive vice president of products at MySQL, the open source database company, responsible for engineering and marketing. During his tenure at MySQL, Urlocker developed the business strategy that grew the company’s revenue to $100 million annually. He joined Sun Microsystems through the acquisition of MySQL.
Prior to his tenure at MySQL, Zack held executive product management and marketing positions at Active Software (later acquired by webMethods) and Borland International, where he helped create and launch the award-winning Delphi and JBuilder lines of development tools.
Zack is on the board of directors at two open source companies, Pentaho and Revolution Computing, and is an advisor and investor in several early stage startups.
Ashlee Vance, Reporter, The New York Times
Ashlee Vance works out of the San Francisco bureau, covering the ways in which businesses and workers use technology. His stories focus on the major hardware and software makers, along with exploring the new companies and personalities shaping business computing.
Ashlee joined The New York Times in 2008 after working for five years as editor of The Register - an irreverent British technology web site. He has also written freelance stories on technology for The Economist.
In 2000, Ashlee graduated from Pomona College with a degree in philosophy, the obvious major for any technology reporter.
Claus von Riegen, Director Technology Standards and Open Source, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG
Claus von Riegen is Director of Technology Standards and Open Source at SAP AG. In this role, he is responsible for SAP's strategy with regard to technology standards and open source software, from their initial development to full product support. In the past, Claus has been co-developing various Web services specifications, such as UDDI, WS-Policy and WS-MetadataExchange, and supported their submission to standards organizations. Other activities include work on Web services interoperability as part of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and in terms of joint projects with technology partners. Also, Claus is a prior member of the OASIS Board of Directors and the W3C Advisory Board. He joined SAP in 1994 after obtaining a master degree in computer science from the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
John Weathersby, Jr., Executive Director, Open Source Software Institute
John Weathersby is the founder and executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, (www.oss-institute.org) a U.S.-based non-profit organization whose mission is to promote adoption of open source software solutions within government IT environments. John currently serves as an adviser on open source issues to a number of Federal and state government agencies including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and the Department of Defense. He is also a founding member of the Open Technology Research Consortium which serves to advance research and development opportunities between government, industry and community interests.
Kim Weins, SVP Products and Marketing, OpenLogic
Kim has more than 15 years of experience in building successful marketing organizations at enterprise software companies, with a particular focus on startups. Prior to OpenLogic, Kim spent three years as a principal in CMO Strategy Group. Prior to CMO she was at PeopleSoft, where she was responsible for driving PeopleSoft's CRM business strategy. Kim has also held senior level management positions at enterprise software companies such as Annuncio Software, Extricity, Hyperion, and Pillar. She is recognized for her expertise in driving long term product strategy, creating high functioning marketing organizations, and helping companies grow revenue while reducing marketing costs.
Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer, Red Hat
Jim Whitehurst was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in December 2007.
Whitehurst joined Delta Airlines in 2002, serving in various roles, most recently as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for Operations, Sales and Customer Service, Network and Revenue Management, Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Prior to joining Delta, Whitehurst served as Vice President and Director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held various leadership roles in their Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.
A native of Columbus, Ga., Whitehurst graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics. He also attended Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Deb Woods, Vice President, Product Management, Ingres
Deb Woods is vice president of product management. She provides leadership regarding future product direction and is responsible for the Ingres products in the marketplace. She is also responsible for Ingres Learning Services and the Ingres VIP program. She has been committed to bringing Open Source solutions to the market place for the past eight years and continues this endeavor through Ingres.
Deb has held numerous leadership positions in the technology industry, contributing in developing leading strategies for product development. Most recently, Deb was the vice president of product management at Red Hat, where she worked with customers and partners to bring the Red Hat Enterprise Linux products to the marketplace. She was responsible for managing partner relationships and contributions to RHEL at Red Hat.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Notably active in the open source community, Deb sits on the board of directors of the Open Solutions Alliance and the Open Source for America steering committee.
Tim Yeaton, CEO & President, Black Duck Software
Tim has 30 years of software and technology management experience. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim was CMO at EqualLogic, Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager of Enterprise Products at Red Hat. He was previously CEO of Avaki and Senior VP & GM of the Server Products at Macromedia.
