The Most Widely Used Open Source Business Intelligence
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.
Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®'s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business.
Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.
Bob Bickel currently sits on the boards and invests in eXo, CloudBees, RunSignUp.com, and Metaverse. He was a key part of the business and product strategy and team formation at Bluestone Software (IPO in 1999 and sold to HP for $450M in 2000) and JBoss (sold to Red Hat for $350M+ in 2006). He was also a board member or advisor to Hyperic/Spring (acquired by VMWare), PrincetonSoftech (acquired by IBM) and Bristol Technology (acquired by HP). He consults with a variety of technology companies and venture capital firms. Bob is also passionate about running, and is a volunteer assistant coach for the Moorestown High School Cross Country team and co-owns the Moorestown Running Company . You access his blogs from his website at www.bobbickel.com.
Mark Burton is an experienced Software Executive who now serves on the Board of Directors of 3 Open Source companies, Zend Technologies, Infobright and Mulesource.
Mark's background includes Sales and Marketing leadership roles covering a 29 year operating career. His past sales and marketing roles included Executive Sales positions at MySQL and Informatica. Most notably Mark contributed to the significant growth and record $1B sale of MySQL to Sun Microsystems and to the successful IPO at Informatica.
Barry Klawans has over 24 years of experience architecting and developing enterprise applications. While CTO of Jaspersoft from 2001 to 2008, Barry was responsible for the technical vision and direction of Jaspersoft's products, helping pioneer the “open core” business. During this time, he became an advocate for the public sector adoption of open source software and is now putting his beliefs to work as the Chief Architect for the City of San Francisco’s San Francisco International Airport.
Prior to joining Jaspersoft, Barry was the Systems Architect at Bidcom, a hosted business-to-business solution serving the commercial construction industry. Before Bidcom, Barry was one of the original engineers at Remedy, where he spent five years and was responsible for adding Web capabilities to Remedy's core systems, and product-wide GUI and integration functionality. Prior to that, he was an early engineer at Sybase, where he spent five years of development effort on the core server and network access layer. Barry earned a B.A. with High Honors and Overall Academic Distinction in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist with deep roots in the open source community. He is founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm that specializes in intellectual property protection, licensing, and business transactions for technology companies.
In addition to this law practice, Larry also served for many years as general counsel and secretary of the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI). He currently advises many commercial open source companies and non-profit open source projects including the Apache Software Foundation. His book, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, was published by Prentice Hall in 2004. He was a Lecturer at Stanford Law School in 2005-2006. For more information, please visit www.rosenlaw.com.
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