Our Contributors
Mike Arcuri
VP, Marketing at Zipline Games
Mike has a fifteen year history of setting product visions, leading software teams and tuning products based on market response at great startups like Ontela and Photobucket and blue chip companies like Microsoft. Mike loves mobile, games, and platforms designed to support them. He also digs startups, having founded 3 of his own and done a stint at TechStars, Seattle. When Mike was 8 years old and got his first computer (a TI-99/4A), he told people his career plan was to create a hit video game and make a million dollars. Some things never change.
Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager, Canonical
Jono Bacon is an award-winning community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author. Currently he works as the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, leading a team to grow, inspire and enthuse the global Ubuntu community.
Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice, and wrote The Art of Community (O’Reilly), now in its second edition, is the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit, and is a regular speaker at events about community management, leadership, and best practice.
Follow Jono on Twitter @jonobacon and visit his website at www.jonobacon.org.
Dana Blankenhorn
Blogger
Dana has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the “Interactive Age Daily” for CMP Media, and has written for the “Chicago Tribune,” Advertising Age’s “NetMarketing” supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years. Read his blog and follow him on Twitter @DanaBlankenhorn.
Shlomi Ben Haim
CEO at JFrog
CEO of JFrog and the driving force behind the company’s worldwide sales strategy and expansion. Leading the company’s business and corporate development, strategic partnerships and community relationship. Shlomi brings more than 15 years of experience to the company, having held executive posts at some leading software companies.
Prior to joining JFrog in 2009, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP. Under his leadership the company enjoyed year-on-year revenue and profitability growth of more than 70%. AlphaCSP was eventually acquired by MalamTeam IT Group. Shlomi also previously served in several commanding roles as an officer (ranked Major) in the Israeli Air Force. Follow Shlomi on Twitter @shlomibenhaim.
Robert Blasi
Partner at Goodwin Procter LLP
Robert Blasi is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department, where he assists high-technology clients with a variety of intellectual property matters including open source software issues, intellectual property portfolio strategy and licensing, and intellectual property issues arising in corporate transactions. Rob’s transactional practice includes opinion work addressing issues of freedom-to-operate, patentability, infringement and validity. Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Robert was an associate in the Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. Rob has been named a “Massachusetts Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine for each of the past five years.
Michael Brown
Linux and OSS Advocate at Dell, Inc.
Michael Brown is an engineering technologist who has worked at Dell, Inc for 13 years and has handled open source due dilligence for Dell’s acquisitions for the past two years. Michael is one of the de-facto, go-to people at Dell for handling open source compliance issues and has extensive experience in working between the software engineering organization and legal offices to iron out open source licensing questions.
Jennifer Cloer
Director of Communications at The Linux Foundation
Jennifer Cloer today is Director of Communications at The Linux Foundation where she oversees public relations, social media and content development. Cloer was previously vice president at Page One PR where she ran The Linux Foundation account since 2005. She also managed the launches of the nonprofit Software Freedom Law Center and the Open Solutions Alliance and headed public relations programs for Creative Commons, Funambol, Google and Jaspersoft, among others. Prior to joining Page One PR, she was at The Metropolitan Group where she worked on media relations programs for sustainably responsible businesses in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. Cloer also spent four years as a PR manager in corporate communications at Tektronix where she led PR for the mobile test business lines and won a Corporate Excellence Award for her role in launching a new product category for the company. A former legislative aide, she holds a BA in journalism from the University of Oregon. Follow Jennifer on Twitter @jennifercloer.
Lee Congdon
Chief Information Officer at Red Hat
Lee Congdon is responsible for Red Hat’s global information systems, including the technology strategy, enterprise architecture, information technology governance, solutions delivery, and systems operations supporting the company. His role includes enabling Red Hat’s business through services, such as knowledge management, technology innovation, technology-enabled collaboration, and process improvement.
Congdon has more than 25 years of experience as an IT leader. Prior to joining Red Hat® he was managing vice president, Information Technology, at Capital One where he developed and delivered IT solutions for the firm’s corporate functions and Global Financial Services group.
Before Capital One, Congdon was senior vice president, Strategic Initiatives, at Nasdaq, where he led the organization’s efforts to identify, implement, and operate technology solutions for Nasdaq Japan, Nasdaq Europe, and other strategic global ventures.
Earlier, at Citicorp, Congdon led multiple global technology initiatives for the private bank and the corporate bank. Congdon began his career at IBM as an operating system developer and held several technology and technical marketing positions of increasing responsibility with that firm.
Follow Lee on Twitter @lcongdon.
Ate Douma
Chief Architect at Hippo B.V, ASF Member and incubator Champion for Apache Rave
Ate has been a professional Java developer since 1998, using Apache Software Foundation (ASF) software since 1999. In 2004 he became a ASF Committer for Apache Jetspeed and a ASF Member in 2007. He also member of the Apache Incubator PMC and committer for Apache Wicket. In Nov. 2010, Ate launched the idea for a new Apache project resulting in Apache Rave. He is also a mentor for Apache Wookie (Incubating) and Apache Airavata (Incubating), as well as a member of the OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) TC. Follow him on Twitter @AteDouma.
Peter Galli
Senior Open Source Community Manager, Microsoft
Peter is an evangelist for the Interoperability team at Microsoft, which is part of its Developer & Platform Evangelism Group. He is also the Editor of Port 25, Microsoft’s Open Source community blog, and a contributor to the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a financial/technology reporter for 20 years at leading publications in South Africa and the US, including eWeek, a magazine in the Ziff Davis Enterprise stable of publications, where he was a Senior Editor, covering software platforms. Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterGalli and read his blog posts on Port25.
Kathleen Goolsby
Managing Editor, SandHill
Kathleen Goolsby is an established freelance writer/ghostwriter, editor and researcher. She is known for her ability to capture and present insightful information and for extensive work in the areas of software/technology, outsourcing, business transformation and change management. She has interviewed more than 950 top executives in companies, associations and government entities around the world. Kathleen also is the managing editor and a writer at SandHill.com. Follow Kathleen on Twitter at @KathleenGoolsb.
Colin Hope-Murray
Global IT Executive, Strategic Planner and Architect
Global IT executive, CTO and Chief Architect for several major international enterprises including the American Red Cross, Unilever, Digital Equipment and Open Source Development Labs, Colin has over 35 years of experience in strategic planning and technical development. A visionary and pragmatist who pioneered the adoption of open source strategies in the early 2000′s, he is an ardent believer in effective standards and open collaboration. Follow Colin on Twitter @CHopeMurray.
Bryan House
Vice President, Product Marketing at Acquia
Bryan House is the vice president of product marketing at Acquia. In his role, Bryan is responsible for evangelizing Drupal and Acquia to analysts, media, and customers around the globe. Bryan has more than ten years of product marketing experience for leading vendors in the collaboration and content management space. Prior to software, Bryan brewed beer professionally for seven years. Follow Bryan on twitter @bryanhouse
Paula Hunter
Executive Director, Outercurve 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, 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. Follow Paula on Twitter @huntermkt.
Matt Jones
Senior Technical Specialist Infotainment, Jaguar Land Rover
Matt is the Technical Lead for the Next Generation of Infotainment systems at Jaguar Land Rover and the Vice President of the GENIVI Alliance; leading the push for open infotainment standards and leading edge features being deployed rapidly to the customer.
Matt began his career in professional audio, before joining the automotive sector with Jaguar Land Rover in 2002. He led the deployment of rear seat entertainment and television across the range of vehicles, and was responsible for the relationship and launches of premium audio systems with Bowers & Wilkins and most recently Meridian Audio. Following on he has taken the lead in many areas of Infotainment strategy, managing the System Architecture teams and off-shore development centres. Outside of Jaguar Land Rover, Matt is a Chartered Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, being a member of both the IMechE and the IET.
Sacha Labourey
CEO and Founder, Cloudbees
Sacha started his first consulting business, Cogito Informatique, in 1996. He joined Marc Fleury’s JBoss project as a core contributor in 2001 and implemented JBoss’ original clustering features. In 2003, Sacha founded the European headquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company’s growth in that region. While in this position, he led the recruitment of some of JBoss’ key talent and acquisition of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, Inc. and as such, oversaw all of the JBoss engineering activities. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc. was acquired by Red Hat. After the acquisition, Sacha remained JBoss CTO and played a crucial role in integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division. He ultimately left Red Hat in April 2009. Following a period of research, Sacha became convinced that public cloud infrastructure would lead a fundamental IT paradigm shift and that middleware would play a key role in that shift. As a result CloudBees, Inc. was formed in April 2010.
Read Sacha’s blog and follow him on Twitter @sachalabourey.
Chris Lucca
Technical Evangelist, AccuRev
Chris Lucca is a methodology and process improvement expert helping companies to discover and implement their ideal software development process.
Chris’ experience dates back to his days as a build / release specialist and software engineer for IBM-Rational. He has also filled the roles of developer, release engineer and SCM consultant for numerous organizations. Chris is a certified scrum master and a frequent speaker at agile and software developer events. Follow Chris on Twitter @clucca.
Jay Lyman
Senior Analyst, The 451 Group
Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing primarily on Linux operating systems and vendors and open source software in the enterprise, application development, systems management and cloud computing. Jay’s analysis includes evolving business and commercialization models, as well as the actual software that is created by communities and used by enterprise organizations.
Prior to joining The 451 Group, Jay wrote for a number of IT publications, including LinuxInsider and TechNewsWorld, NewsForge/Linux.com, Web Host Industry Review and CMP Media covering open source software communities, development and products as well as other technology and business topics. He has also written for other news organizations, including the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. Follow Jay on Twitter @ripcitylyman and read his blog at 451 CAOS Theory.
Dave McAllister
Director, Open Source and Standards, XTO at Adobe Systems, Inc.
As director, standards and open source, for XTO at Adobe, McAllister 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 W3C eGov initiative, Linux Foundation, and other industry associations.
He often speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with open-source software and on creating new technology companies. He’s currently enamored with gamification, the application of game mechanics and dynamics to non-game situations. 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.
Dave can be reached at dmcallis@adobe.com, followed on Twitter as @dwmcallister and his irregular blog is at http://blogs.adobe.com/open.
Jason McAllister
Business Development at Emenda
Jason McAllister is employed by Emenda and is responsible for sales and business development in Germany and Austria. Jason loves to meet the needs and subdue the pain companies feel in software testing by providing first class solutions such as Black Duck Software.
Heather Meeker
Chair of Intellectual Property Licensing at Greenberg Traurig LLP
Heather Meeker is a lawyer in private practice who helps her clients unravel the mysteries of open source software licensing. She is the chair of the IP/IT Licensing and Transactions group at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, and specializes in intellectual property transactions for software and other technology clients. In 2011 was selected by the Daily Journal as one of the top 25 intellectual property licensing lawyers in California, and was named San Francisco Information Technology Law Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in 2012. Her book The Open Source Alternative: Understanding Risks and Leveraging Opportunities was published by Wiley & Sons in February, 2008.
Robert Munteanu
Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems Inc
Robert Munteanu is a software developer with a passion for Open Source. He currently works as a computer scientist on the Adobe Experience Manager, part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. A frequent Open Source contributor, he focuses his efforts on projects such as MantisBT, the Eclipse plugin for Reviewboard and the Eclipse plugin for MantisBT. He keep track of all his public activities at http://robert.muntea.nu/.
Eric Newcomer
Former Chief Architect, Investment Banking IT at Credit Suisse
Eric Newcomer is former Chief Architect, Investment Banking IT at Credit Suisse (through May 2012). Before joining Credit Suisse, Eric was CTO at IONA Technologies, and a Transaction Processing Architect/Distinguished Engineer at Digital Equipment/Compaq Computer (now part of HP). Eric has contributed to the development of multiple enterprise software products and standards, including open source projects at Apache and Eclipse. He is a former member of the Board of Directors at the OSGi Alliance and the Eclipse Foundation. Eric is the author or co-author of three widely-read books: Principles of Transaction Processing Second Edition (with Phil Bernstein), Understanding SOA with Web Services (with Greg Lomow), and Understanding Web Services. Read Eric’s blog and follow him on Twitter @enewc.
John Noerenberg II
Sr. Director, Qualcomm Open Source Portal
John currently is the director of the Qualcomm Open Source Portal (QOSP). QOSP brings together the different engineering, legal and business organizations throughout Qualcomm that are engaged in the use and management of open source software in all of Qualcomm’s products, services and systems. It provides a library of tools, services and information, teaches Qualcomm employees about good open source practice, guides and advises teams as they work to comply with open source obligations, and evangelizes Qualcomm’s role in open source communities as well as being an active participant in numerous open source projects.
Linus Nyman
Doctoral Student at the Hanken School of Economics
Linus Nyman is a doctoral student at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, where he studies code forking in open source software. When not researching, he can sometimes be found lecturing on corporate strategy or open source software. Other areas of interest include freemium and microtransaction business models in gaming. Linus has a Master’s degree in economics from the Hanken School of Economics.
Steve O’Grady
Principal Analyst & Co-Founder of RedMonk
Stephen is a Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, the open source industry analyst firm. He focuses on infrastructure software such as programming languages, operating systems and databases, as well as covering horizontal industry trends such as open source and cloud computing. Before setting up RedMonk, Stephen worked as an analyst at Illuminata by drawing on his real world expertise in architecting and developing applications for leading systems integrators. Prior to joining Illuminata, Stephen served in various senior capacities with large systems integration firms like Keane and boutique consultancies like Blue Hammock. Regularly cited in publications such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal, and a popular speaker and moderator on the conference circuit, Stephen’s advice and opinion is well respected throughout the industry. Follow Stephen on Twitter @sogrady and read his RedMonk posts.
Michael O’Neill
Senior Advisor, VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) and Member of the Board of Directors, OSEHRA
Mike O’Neill is Senior Advisor to the Director, Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2) with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where he drives the identification and deployment of new solutions addressing VA’s top priorities. He is also VA’s designee to the board of directors of OSEHRA, the governing body of an open source electronic health record community.
Mr. O’Neill has been involved in the commercialization of new products and technology as an executive and in both startups and large companies, and as an early stage venture capital investor. He served as a Clean Energy Fellow with the New England Clean Energy Council, working with a variety of startup businesses in the Boston area. He was Senior Vice President of AMI Semiconductor’s Digital ASIC and Communications Products division, and continued to run the division following ON Semiconductor’s acquisition of AMI. At semiconductor startup Philsar Semiconductor, he served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Business Development through Philsar’s acquisition by Conexant Systems. Mr. O’Neill led a number of seed and early stage investments as a General Partner with Kodiak Venture Partners. He started his career in engineering and management positions with IBM. He currently serves on the board of directors of Prime Photonics. Follow Michael on Twitter @mdoneill and follow Veterans Affairs and VAi2 at @DeptVetAffairs and @VAInnovation.
Andy Oram
Editor, O’Reilly Media
Andy Oram is an editor at O’Reilly Media. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source technologies and software engineering. His work for O’Reilly includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the 2007 best-seller Beautiful Code.
Follow Andy on Twitter @praxagora.
Clint Oram
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, SugarCRM
Clint helped launch SugarCRM in 2004 with the goal of helping companies around the world turn customers into loyal fans. Today, he leads product strategy and the product management and community teams. Clint was one of the original architects and developers of the Sugar application and has focused on helping build out the product, company, partners and community in a variety of executive roles.
Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint held senior roles in the development, professional services and product management organizations at Epiphany, Octane Software and Hewlett Packard. He has 15 years experience in the enterprise software industry and over 10 years designing and building award-winning CRM software solutions. Clint holds a BS in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a co-author of a CRM software patent. Clint enjoys traveling and speaking at conferences on a variety of technical topics, and has visited SugarCRM customers and partners in over 25 countries. Follow Clint on Twitter @sugarclint.
Erynn Petersen
SVP, Paid Services and Open Source Engineering at AOL, Inc.
Prior to AOL, Erynn worked at Microsoft where she was responsible for partnering with Yahoo! on the successful transition of the Yahoo! Search and Contextual ads business to Microsoft. Erynn presented the AOL case study at the Spring Open Source Think Tank event and has provided an update to that core case study at the Open Source Think Tank in Paris.
Mark Radcliffe
Senior Partner at DLA Piper
Mark Radcliffe is a senior partner who practices corporate securities and intellectual property law at DLA Piper. He also serves as outside General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative and is Chair of the Open Source Industry Group at the firm. Mark was the Chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3, assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. He currently represents large companies in their open source matters including eBay, Accenture, Adobe, Palm and Sony, along with startups including SugarCRM, DotNetNuke, Cleversafe and rSmart. He writes frequently on his blog and has participated in a series of webinars on open source legal issues with Black Duck.
Paul Ressler
Principal at The Cirrostratus Group
Paul Ressler is a consultant specializing in service delivery for SaaS, Cloud Computing, and Managed Services. As the principal of The Cirrostratus Group, Paul helps his clients improve customer satisfaction, raise service margins, introduce profitable new services, and transition to the SaaS business model. Follow Paul on Twitter @PaulRessler.
Phil Robb
Director of Open Source Program Office at Hewlett Packard
Phil Robb is the director for HP’s Open Source Program Office. Phil is a widely respected expert in the area of open source strategy, business impact, and governance. He is frequently asked to speak at international technology and business events and he has been consulted by policy makers including the European Commission, and the United States Department of Justice as well as numerous high technology trade organizations. In his role at HP Phil has responsibility for HP’s corporate open source strategy, engagement with the open source community, oversight of the Open Source Review Board, and a variety of software development projects. Phil has been focused on open source at HP since 2001.
Prior to joining HP, Phil held senior management and technical positions at Critical Path, Fisher Scientific, Motorola and Honeywell-Bull focused on wireless, and wireline high speed telecommunications software and services.
Martin Schneider
Consultant and Advisor at SugarCRM
Martin Schneider is an independent marketing consultant and advisor to SugarCRM. Previously, Martin was an early member of SugarCRM’s marketing team, and was one of the first analysts to cover SugarCRM, as well as the emergence of open source applications while a senior analyst with 451 Research. In addition to his roles with 451 research and SugarCRM, Martin has help various VP of Marketing roles with innovative open source and cloud computing companies, including Basho Technologies and Caspio, Inc. Martin is passionate about bringing new technologies to light; creating mainstream understanding and demand for innovative software.
Kevin Shockey
Author and Founder
Kevin is a volunteer, author, and founder. He’s currently running a lean startup project, Financing Freedom, focused on how to organize and fund free culture projects. He recently founded Mis Tribus, a non-profit foundation to provide creators (authors, producers, artists) with the tools, services, and knowledge, to independently publish, produce, and sell their creative products. Previously he founded DóndeEs.com and the SNAP Platform. He was editor in chief of TUX magazine, and is a speaker and blogger for O’Reilly Media. He has served on the O’Reilly Open Source Conference committe since 2005. In a previous life he was Director of Software Development for what is now AT&T Wireless.
Ian Skerrett
Vice President of Marketing at Eclipse Foundation
Ian Skerrett has over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the software industry. His passion is to make marketing a conversation between a vendor, the employees and current and potential customers. Visit Ian’s blog and follow him on Twitter @IanSkerrett.
Michael Skok
Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners
Before joining North Bridge as a Partner in 2002, Michael founded, led and attracted over $100 million in private equity to several successful software companies. His professional experience spanned CAD/CAM, document management, workflow, imaging and collaboration, security, and analytics. Latterly, Michael founded AlphaBlox, defining the market for analytical applications – now a multi-billion dollar industry – before IBM acquired the company.
View his full bio and follow him on Twitter @EntreCapitalist.
David Smith
Vice President at Revolution Analytics
David Smith leads corporate marketing and community relations at Revolution Analytics. With a background in data science, he writes daily about applications of R and predictive analytics at the Revolutions blog, and was named a top 10 influencer on the topic of “Big Data” by Forbes. He is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of R’s tutorial manual “An Introduction to R”, and was one of the originating developers of the ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) project.
Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, David was the director of product management for S-PLUS at Insightful, Inc. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid.
Nik Teshima
Senior Product and Market Manager at IBM
Nik has well over a decade of experience in software delivery, design, development, and service for IBM. In his current role he is responsible for driving product strategy for Rational Application Developer and Rational Software Architect, in addition to ensuring that it is well integrated and aligned with IBM middleware products including WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server as well as the Rational software delivery platform.
Martin von Haller Grønbæk
Partner, BvHD law firm
Considered one of the leading IT-lawyers in Denmark, Martin has specialized in open licensing and business strategy. He is the co-founder and current chairman of the Danish Open Source Vendors association. He also co-founded the Danish eBusiness Association (FDIH) and Internet Society DK. He co-leads Creative Commoms DK and sit on numerous board of IT and eCommerce firm, e.g Saxo.com and Viewworld. His blog is at www.vonhaller.dk.
Claus von Riegen
Program Director, Technology Standards and Open Source at SAP AG
Claus von Riegen 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 co-developed 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. Claus is also a member of the OASIS Board of Directors and a prior member of the W3C Advisory Board. Follow Claus on Twitter @laserjupp.
Stephen Walli
Technical Director at Outercurve Foundation
Stephen has worked in the IT industry since 1980, as both customer and vendor. He was most recently a consultant on software business development and open source strategy. His customers included Microsoft, the Eclipse Foundation, the Linux Foundation. He’s an adviser to Bitrock, Continuent and eBox. He organized the agenda, speakers and sponsors for the inaugural Beijing Open Source Software Forum as part of the 2007 Software Innovation Summit in Beijing.
Stephen was VP Open Source Development Strategy at Optaros, a business manager at Microsoft on open source, and VP R+D and founder at Softway Systems, a venture-backed company that developed a UNIX portability environment for NT before being acquired by Microsoft. He was a long time participant and officer at the IEEE and ISO POSIX standards groups, representing both USENIX and EurOpen (E.U.U.G.) and a regular speaker and writer on open systems standards since 1991. Read Stephen’s personal and Network World blogs and follow him on Twitter @stephenrwalli.
Doug Wetzel
Managing Partner at IntelliCap
Prior to co-founding IntelliCap, Doug was the Chief Marketing Officer at Eisner Technology Services, where he designed and executed a successful restructuring of the organization resulting in a 40% increase in profitability. Before that, Doug was the Senior Vice President, Sales for NeuVis, where he built from scratch the Sales, Operations, Alliances and Market Development groups growing the company from 0 to $17MM in sales. Doug spent 8 years as founder and CEO of ISF (International Software Finance) a specialty finance company specializing in the design and management of outsourced Customer Acquisition Programs for software companies. Prior to founding ISF, Doug was Vice President Sales for Meridian Software Funding.
Over the more than 20 years of Doug’s career, he has raised nearly $70MM in Venture Capital, $140MM in Senior Debt, developed business cases for over $2Billion in software transactions, trained nearly 1000 software professionals, and authored two Whitepapers for Gartner Group.
Gil Yehuda
Director of Open Source at Yahoo!, Inc.
Gil Yehuda is director of open source at Yahoo! Inc. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gil was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, focusing on information management, knowledge management, and collaboration strategy. He was also an Enterprise Architect at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for IT governance and development technology standards. Gil is an influential blogger in the Enterprise 2.0, open source, and innovation marketplace, and has been keynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous conferences.
Visit Gil’s blog and follow him on Twitter @gyehuda.
Elizabeth Abbate
Legal Specialist at Black Duck Software
At Black Duck Software, Elizabeth works closely with senior counsel on intellectual property and transactional matters, including contract negotiations, licensing, and open source licensing. Elizabeth is a law student at Suffolk University Law School, JD Candidate 2013, where she is concentrating in Intellectual Property Law.
Andrew Aitken
Senior Vice President of Olliance Consulting, a division of Black Duck
Andrew Aitken is an expert on strategies for the commercialization of open source and a leader in the open source community. Andrew has more than 20 years senior management experience in building and leading national professional services firms, including Renaissance Worldwide and eWork. In 2001, Andrew founded Olliance Consulting with other industry veterans to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source where he has personally advised firms such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and dozens of VCs and start-ups. In 2006, Andrew created the Open Source Think Tank, an invitation-only, bi annual event that brings the leading global FOSS experts together to discuss the future of commercial open source.
Sushil Bajracharya
Senior Software Engineer at Black Duck Software
Sushil Bajracharya is passionate about building tools that enable effective and efficient software development. With years of experience in research and development of code search tools, Sushil leads the technical aspects of large-scale code search in the CodeSight/Koders development team at Black Duck. Sushil joined Black Duck after finishing his Ph.D in Information and Computer Science from University of California Irvine, where his dissertation focused on building and leveraging a large scale code search engine to help developers finding code they need. Read more about Sushil at http://sushil.me.
Jim Berets
Vice President of Product Management at Black Duck Software
Jim is responsible for the strategy, planning, and delivery of the Black Duck® Suite, including its flagship products Black Duck® Code Center™ and Black Duck® Protex™, as well as the Black Duck® KnowledgeBase™.
Prior to joining Black Duck, Jim consulted to technology industry clients on product strategy and definition, offer development, market and competitive research, and customer acquisition as Principal of Beaver Brook Consulting. Jim was also VP of Product Management at CO Space and Director of Sales Engineering at BBN Planet / GTE Internetworking.
Shawn Briscoe
Director of Open Source Strategic Services at Black Duck Software
Shawn Briscoe has over a decade of experience in enterprise use and adoption of open source software, open source ecosystems, and strategies for monetizing open source technology. Shawn helps clients use open source technologies and methods to achieve their business and technology goals.
Follow Shawn on Twitter at @shawnallyn.
Megan DeGruttola
Engagement Media Specialist at Black Duck Software
Megan is responsible for Black Duck’s social media presence and management of the company’s extensive open source webinar series. She is a regular OSD contributor, posting Open Source Weekly Wrap Up‘s every Friday. Megan has a background in word-of-mouth marketing and market research, as well as a bachelor’s degree concentrating in marketing and entrepreneurship from Northeastern University.
Follow Megan on Twitter at @megandegruttola.
Alan Facey
Executive Vice President of World Wide Field Operations at Black Duck Software
Alan has more than 25 years of experience building high-performance sales teams in start-ups and established software companies. He was Vice President of Global Sales and Services at database auditing specialist Lumigent Technologies, where he established the sales and services organization and grew its worldwide sales by over 100% in under two years. Prior to Lumigent, Alan was Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Services for content management systems vendor ClearStory Systems and interim Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at compliance solutions provider Obian. His successful career at application development and database leader Progress Software spanned nine years as Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa Operations, and later as Vice President, North American operations and global channels.
Boris Geller
Market Development Lead at Black Duck Software
Boris is an enterprise technology executive with over 20 years of building high-growth global software and services businesses in senior corporate development, channels, marketing, strategy, software development and systems architecture roles at BEA, EMC/Legato, HP/DEC, BMC/BGS and several Silicon Valley startups. He has a strong knowledge of Cloud, SaaS, Open Source/FOSS, CRM, Supply Chain and BPM/BPO offerings in Telecom, Automotive, Financial, Insurance, Government, Media and Healthcare industries. His prior market development roles span across the US, Europe and China. Connect with Boris on LinkedIn.
Dave Gruber
Director of Developer Programs at Black Duck Software
Dave has a CS degree and 15 years’ experience in enterprise application development. Following a successful startup to scale large web sites in the early days of the Internet, he spent the next 13 years actively involved in the evolution of web technologies, working in product management and marketing focused on web application development technologies like Flash Remoting, ColdFusion, and Flex. He has a long history of speaking at developer conferences large and small around the world. Follow Dave on Twitter @davegruber5.
Hal Hearst
Senior Director & Chief Consultant at Olliance Consulting, a division of Black Duck
Hal Hearst has over 20 years of experience helping companies adopt best practices, implement new processes and leverage new technologies. At Olliance Consulting, he is responsible for providing customers with leadership and expertise in the evaluation, development, implementation and monitoring of open source management programs. Hal previously served as the Senior Director of Professional Services at Black Duck, worked as the Consulting Project Manager at Skyva LLC and for SAP in the SAP-America’s consulting organization, leading supply chain management implementations.
Matt Jacobs
Senior Corporate Counsel at Black Duck Software
Matt oversees the worldwide legal affairs of Black Duck including managing licensing and contract negotiation, managing the company’s intellectual property portfolio and advising senior management on day-to-day legal affairs.
Prior to joining Black Duck in 2009, Matt was with Bernstein Shur where he counseled companies on a variety of intellectual property matters, including open source compliance. Before that, he held in-house positions with Cabletron Systems and Standex International.
Matt earned his law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and holds a master’s degree in business from Plymouth State University.
Stefan Just
D/A/CH Regional Manager, Black Duck Software
Stefan specializes in mergers & acquisitions, open source usage, license compliance and partner management. Prior to Black Duck, Stefan was an Area Manager at BEA Systems. Before BEA, he was Key Account Manager of Financial Industry at Borland and Account Manager at CA Technologies.
Ari Kamen
Solutions Consultant, Black Duck Software
Ari has been in the software industry for nearly ten years. In his past life, he slung code as a software engineer. Feeling a yearning to communicate with people, today he is using his charming personality to assess other people’s software quality, while providing efficiency and engineering expertise to Black Duck’s Professional Service team. Ari’s love of computers began at the tender age of eight, when his father brought home a giant 286 desktop with a yellow monochrome monitor. Although the primary goal behind learning basic DOS commands was to access and play Tetris for hours on end, the passion for technology never diminished.
Kaj Kandler
Integration Manager, Black Duck Software
Kaj has 25 years experience in the application software industry, holding roles in development, QA and management. He comes to Black Duck Software from his own consulting firm Conficio, where he developed a system of video based end user documentation as demonstrated in Plan-B for OpenOffice.org. Kaj also worked for Skyva International, and SAP AG, where he developed Enterprise Resource Planning applications.
Timothy Kenny
Senior Director of Marketing, Black Duck Software
Timothy brings 20 years experience leading global marketing teams in brand awareness, lead generation, sales enablement, trade shows and events, collateral development, product launches, and website management. He drives all aspects of global direct marketing campaigns to optimize growth and market awareness through effective lead generation, lead qualification, and closed-loop communications with sales.
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Taek Wan Kim
President & CEO, Black Duck Software Korea
Taek Wan is the President & CEO of Black Duck Software Korea. He is an open source governance specialist and one of the open source pioneers in Korea. He’s a frequent writer for columns regarding open source governance for the Korean IT news media. Taek Wan was also the host of LinuxWorld Korea in 2006 and 2007.
Phil Marshall
Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Black Duck Software
Phil brings over 10 years experience in both product and services marketing as well as over a decade of experience in the high-tech publishing space with publications including Dr. Dobb’s Journal and Byte magazine. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Phil was Director of Global Solutions Marketing at Ness Software Product Labs, a division of Ness Technologies.. Before Ness Technologies, Phil held product marketing positions at both RSA and Sun Microsystems and was Director of Marketing at Compliance Engineering, a healthcare focused Systems Integration firm.
Follow Phil on Twitter @prmarshall20.
Bill McQuaide
Executive Vice President of Products & Services at Black Duck Software
Bill has 20 years of technology experience and executive leadership spanning engineering, product management, marketing and business development. He joined Black Duck after spending 10 years with RSA Security, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Solutions Group and Corporate Development. Bill’s previous experience includes four years at Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Stardent Computer and Apollo Computer.
Kirsten Newcomer
Senior Product Manager at Black Duck Software
Kirsten has over 10 years of experience in software management, including product management, program management and partner management. Experienced in all phases of the software development lifecycle in organizations from small startups to large global enterprises, Kirsten has worked with development teams around the world, including the U.S., Canada and India. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Kirsten worked at IBM Software Group, Rational Software and BMC Software. She also serves as an Alumni Trustee for Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT and is passionate about homebuilding and framing.
Phil Odence
Vice President of Business Development at Black Duck Software
Phil Odence is responsible for expanding Black Duck’s reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships in the multi-source development ecosystem. He came to Black Duck from Empirix (formerly RSW Software and Hammer Technologies) where he served as Vice President of Business Development. Prior to Empirix, Phil was a partner at High Performance Systems, a computer simulation modeling firm.
Follow Phil on Twitter @podence and read his NetworkWorld Blog.
Greg Olson
Senior Director at Olliance Consulting, a division of Black Duck
Greg Olson has over 30 years of experience in the software industry. With Olliance Consulting, Greg has managed the delivery of over 150 engagements. He is the founder and chairman of Sendmail, one of the first commercial open source companies. He has also been the VP of Strategy and Business Development for Sybase and CTO of Britton Lee, Inc.
Tammi Pirri
Vice President of Human Resources at Black Duck
Tammi has over 17 years of industry experience and is responsible for all Human Resources and Organizational Development activities at Black Duck.
Tammi previously served as Vice President of Human Resources for Managesoft, a privately held, enterprise software management solutions company which provided asset recognition, license entitlement, contract management and Software/OS development products and services. At Managesoft, she was responsible for leading the selection, development and retention of a global technology workforce. Previous to Managesoft, Tammi was Vice President of Human Resources at Clinsoft, a clinical trials software company that provided biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations clinical trial tracking and services for drug approval. Tammi was part of the Executive Team, which led the successful acquisition of Clinsoft to Phase Forward. Prior to Clinsoft, Tammi held progressively senior roles at Ziff-Davis Publishing, AT&T Business Networks and Nets Inc.
Follow Tammi on Twitter at @TPIRRI.
Rich Sands
Director of Developer Communities at Black Duck Software
Rich Sands is Director of Developer Communities at Black Duck Software. In this role, he is the product and community manager for ohloh.net, a comprehensive directory and analytics tool for FOSS projects and people.
Rich has been a software developer, product manager, marketing pro, and consultant. At Sun Microsystems, Rich was a key contributor to the successful open sourcing of the Java Platform and the launch of the OpenJDK project. As a consultant, he has helped companies large and small engage with developers to drive adoption of their platforms and APIs, and build successful communities. Follow Rich on Twitter @richsands.
Bill Schineller
KnowledgeBase Manager at Black Duck Software
Bill has over 20 years of experience in software development and management, with a focus on data integration and optimization spanning domains including transportation, criminal justice, manufacturing and defense. Bill’s Black Duck team spiders and analyzes open source off the web and makes information available to the Black Duck® Suite and developer sites. Bill also contributes to the technical workgroup for the SPDX standard. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Bill worked at Metatomix, Skyva, Logistics Information Systems and Raytheon.
Peter Vescuso
Executive Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Black Duck Software
Peter brings over 20 years experience in marketing and executive management, developing new markets and building brands. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Peter was VP/GM of the Enterprise Business and VP of Marketing at Cantata Technology. Peter was also Director of Marketing at Compaq Computer (before the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard), responsible for product marketing and market development in the Workstation Division. Before joining Compaq, he spent eight years in Hewlett-Packard’s Technical Systems Division.
Bill Weinberg
Senior Director at Olliance Consulting, a Division of Black Duck
With over 25 years of embedded and mobile industry experience, Bill Weinberg helps clients enable, build and deploy intelligent device software in engagements involving open source strategy, market analysis, go-to-market, positioning and messaging. His expertise spans mobile software, embedded, virtualization, cloud computing and carrier-grade telecom systems. Follow Bill on Twitter at @LinuxPundit.
Tim Yeaton
President & Chief Executive Officer at Black Duck Software
Tim has 30 years of software and technology management experience and was recently named one of the Most Influential People in the Open Source Industry, in survey of executives conducted by Mindtouch. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim was Chief Marketing Officer at EqualLogic and Dell’s Vice President of the Nashua (N.H.) Design Center. Tim also spent several years at Red Hat as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager of Enterprise Products, where he was instrumental in expanding its business into the developer and middleware markets with acquisitions of JBoss and MetaMatrix.
Follow Tim on Twitter at @tbyeaton.
Andi Zink
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Engineering, Black Duck Software
Andi has nearly two decades of experience in the high technology industry, holding various technology leadership roles. He comes to Black Duck from Trelliswerk, where he served as Managing Partner and led the development efforts for two complex software applications in the data analysis field and the algorithmic trading market. Prior to Trelliswerk he worked at Skyva International, Deloitte & Touche and Comsoft GmBH.
