Chris Aniszczyk is the Open Source Manager at Twitter and tends to be all over the eclipse.org community by committing on various projects and helping new eclipse.org projects off the ground. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform book and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top Ambassador and Top Committer in the past. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris's passions are modularity, running and open source.
James Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP, filesystems, storage and memory management and coherency. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology
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Adam Cohn is a Director in the Legal Department of Cisco Systems, supporting open source licensing as well as providing legal support for Cisco's service provider routing business. Adam has worked in Silicon Valley for twelve years (first at Sun Microsystems and now at Cisco). Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Adam spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC, filing some of the Commission's first internet law enforcement cases. Adam is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Cornell University.
Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication methods and business development. He founded the European Legal Network, helped establish the first law review and law book dedicated to FOSS, and co-founded the Binary Analysis Tool project. He owns Opendawn consultancy and is Executive Director at OpenForum Europe, Regional Director Asia at Open Invention Network, and a Visiting Researcher at Shimane University. He has delivered speeches and lead panels at events in Europe, the USA and across Asia.
Mark Gisi is Sr. Manager of Intellectual Property at Wind River where he is responsible for managing IP policies and processes. He manages the license compliance of thousands of open source packages of a Linux distribution and currently serves on the SPDX working group. He founded Quality Instincts, an IP business consulting firm and Actify, Inc., where he served as VP of Business Development. Mark was a Software Engineer at HP Labs. Mark holds a MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics.
Steven Grandchamp has over twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, where he has served in executive roles for both vendor and IT customer organizations. At OpenLogic he leads the company on it’s mission to help enterprises successfully and safely build and deploy applications built using open source software. The company developed the OpenLogic Expert Community (OXC), the industry leading crowd-sourced approach to community open source support. The company also developed the industries first true SaaS scanning and compliance platform, OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX). He was formerly
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Ibrahim Haddad is the Director of Technology and Alliances at The Linux Foundation responsible for technical, legal and compliance projects and initiatives. Prior to that, he ran the Open Source Office at Palm, the Open Source Technology Group at Motorola, and Global Telecommunications Initiatives at The Open Source Development Labs. Ibrahim started his career as a member of the research team at Ericsson Research where he spent five years focusing on advanced research for system architecture of 3G wireless IP networks and on the adoption of open source software in telecom. Ibrahim graduated with
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Armijn Hemel is a long time open source user (since 1994). Since 2005, he is part of the core team of gpl-violations.org. Armijn is the owner of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions and the author of the Binary Analysis Tool.
Yunjae Jung works for Samsung SDS as an OSS specialist in the areas of strategic planning, process standardization, license management, business development and consulting. He has played a key role for establishing and operating OSS governance in terms of prevention of OSS risks and proliferation of OSS technical assets. In addition to internal activities, he enthusiastically leads two external groups for OSS promotion as a chairman of North East Asia OSS Promotion Forum WG3 and TTA (Korea Information Telecommunication Technology Association) OSS Standardization PG602.
Kyoungae Kim is in charge of open source compliance at LG Electronics since 2007. She is establishing open source compliance process of LGE and giving lectures to developers about open source license. Also she is consulting with open source compliance issue from the technical view.
Shoken Kim has over 25 years of professional experience in IT industry. A graduate from UC Berkeley with Applied Mathematics degree, Shoken has worked extensively for both Japanese and American firms. His expertise ranges business development, sales and consulting in wide range of products and services. He has been a vital force at Black Duck Software since 2008, driving business and establishing a brand recognition in the Asia Pacific region.
In 2005, Florence Tung-Mei Ko joined the Open Source Software Foundry (OSSF) at Academia Sinica as a Legal Specialist. Since then, she has been engaged in research of Free/Open Source Software licensing, especially in analysing the compatibility of licenses, providing solutions to the incompatibility issues that arise between licenses, and suggesting the best model to use for the release of source code. She writes the "Legal Article" column for the OSSF Newsletter, and has published many articles related to Free/Open Source Software licensing issues in Chinese. Ko received her Master of Law degree
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Mahshad Koohgoli is the CEO of Protecode Inc., a provider of open source license management solutions, based in Canada. Mr. Koohgoli has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, and holds several patents in the computer and communications field. Previously, Mr. Koohgoli was founder and CEO of Nimcat Networks (acquired by Avaya in 2005), founder of Spacebridge Networks and Lantern Communications Canada. Mr. Koohgoli holds a BSc and a PhD from the University of Sussex, England.
Yoshio Sonoda is a representative of OSS work leading development initiative at JVC KENWOOD Corporation. Prior to that, Vice President of R&D Center Kenwood Corp., working over 10 years in fields of Industrial Standardization and Open Source Software introduced for implementation, design process & compliance rules in a company. Now a day, taking an effort to apply Linux into automotive business/product area plus OSS compliance procedure.
Akira Takao is General Manager of Corporate R&D Strategy Office of Panasonic Corporation and in charge of legal affairs of Panasonic Corporate R&D Division.
Charley Tschoy is the Head, Korea Open Source Software Law Center, Seoul, Korea Member, Free Software Foundation Europe & European Legal Network Chief Legal Advisor, Business & Legal Consulting for German-Korean Investment Partner, Attorney at Law & Patent Attorney, APEX LLC, Seoul, Korea.
From early 2003, Satoru Ueda has been engaged in a project to widely use Linux for consumer electronics appliances. In the project he has been supporting to establish and enhance collaborative relationship between the community and the embedded system developers. At the same time, as from 2008, he added one more project to tell the strategic value to the corporate executives of each CE products vendors in Japan (Japan OSS Promotion Forum, Embedded System Sub-committee). The challenge to harmonize with community and many Consumer Electronics products related companies is based upon his past experience
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Jim Wright is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Oracle where he serves as counsel for MySQL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Labs, and other groups in open source, joint development, commercial licensing, and other strategic matters. Jim has also helped diligence open source and other intellectual property through numerous Oracle acquisitions, and prior to joining Oracle, worked in private practice handling patent licensing and litigation, government procurement, and commercial and open source intellectual property matters for a wide variety of clients. Prior to law school, Jim was an accomplished software
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Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, SaaS and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the future of computing.
Zemlin’s career took root at Western Wireless, which had a successful IPO and was later acquired by Deutsche Telekom and renamed T-Mobile USA. He was also a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful IPO in July 2000. Other po