Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors

Elected Committer Representative

Chris Aniszczyk is the technical lead for the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and principal consultant at Code 9. He tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and on the Eclipse Technology PMC. His passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling, and anything Eclipse. He's always available to discuss open source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

Nokia

SAP AG

Michael is responsible for SAP's standards strategy and participation in industry consortia. He is also responsible for the SAP Developer Network, a community of 1.4 million individual developers using the SAP NetWeaver platform. Michael has been a member of the JCP EC since 2001 and a Board member of the Eclipse Foundation since 2002.

Elected Committer Representative

Boris is the technical lead of the Eclipse Platform UI component and works for IBM in Ottawa, Canada. He is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, and an active committer on the e4 project. He is proud to have helped increase diversity at the Eclipse Platform (a little) by attracting several non-IBM contributors and helping them become committers. Before joining IBM in 2005, he wrote a commercial RCP app using EMF and GEF, co-founded and co-managed a Web 2.0 company in Germany, worked on the original Eclipse 1.0 at OTI in Ottawa, and earned a PhD in computer science at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. He is married and a geek dad of three kids. You can find him on IRC as "borisb6i".

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Hans-Joachim (Achim) Brede is the founder of BREDEX GmbH and is one of its managing directors. He has implemented and managed multiple, highly complex customer projects and is responsible for the concepts in the development of the automated test tool GUIdancer. Achim holds a Master in Computer Science and has worked with the University of Braunschweig and Digital Equipment as a technical consultant.

brox IT-Solutions GmbH

Chris Brockmann was educated in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA. He studied business administration in Göttingen (Germany) and Winston Salem (USA) where he earned an MBA degree. He spent 10 years with Baan Company's Solutions Center Automotiv, where he built a strong background in production and logistics planning. Later he was in charge of automotive retail solution projects in Europe and Asia. He founded brox IT-Solutions GmbH in 1998 with the vision to help businesses make the most of the massive amounts of available information. In 2008 brox and partners proposed to the SMILA (previously EILF) project to become the new open-architecture standard for handling unstructured information.

Motorola

Dino Brusco is a Senior Director of the Mobile Device Business of Motorola, and is responsible for delivering software development tools and services to mobile application developers. Dino led the creation of Motorola's first Eclipse-based mobile application development platform.

Dino's previous senior management experience includes VP of Marketing, VP of R&D, and VP of Mobile Software Developer Services for several high-tech software companies. He has experience in a broad array of industries including enterprise, mobile, communications infrastructure, and aerospace/defense.

Actuate Corporation

Mark Coggins is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Actuate Corporation. He has over 20 years of management experience in the software industry, including a significant tenure in the software tools space. Among previous positions held, Mark was VP of Engineering at Interactive Development Environments, developers of the "Software through Pictures" product line and the first company to provide tool support for UML. He has an undergraduate degree in International Relations and a masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and is the author of four crime novels set in the Silicon Valley.

Sonatype

Mark de Visser has extensive experience and accomplishments in marketing open source software and software development tools. As CEO of Sonatype, Mark is responsible for building a rich and productive ecosystem around the success of the Apache Maven open source project where open source and commercial users, as well as partners and service providers, can all thrive. Prior to Sonatype, Mark was the Chief Marketing Officer at Zend, the PHP Company, where he was responsible for the company's overall market strategy, as well as for product marketing and corporate communications. Before Zend, de Visser was vice president of marketing at Red Hat Inc. where he was a member of the team that created the company's market-leading position with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He also worked for 12 years at Borland International in international and product marketing roles, and as vice president of corporate marketing.

SOPERA GmbH

Dr. Ricco Deutscher is CTO and co-founder of SOPERA. Before joining SOPERA, Ricco Deutscher was an architecture and technology expert at McKinsey and in charge of international architecture projects. In this capacity he developed the fields of SOA and Open Source at McKinsey. In addition, Ricco Deutscher was also co-founder and president of flatfox AG, a provider of email marketing technologies. He began his professional career as a software architect at SAP AG in Walldorf. Dr. Ricco Deutscher studied physics at the Universities of Leipzig and Moscow, and received a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Hanover.

Elected Committer Representative

Doug Gaff is the PMC Lead for the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Doug is also a Senior Engineering Manager on Wind River's commercial Eclipse-based product, Wind River Workbench. He is responsible for Eclipse open source contributions and adoption of Eclipse technology commercially. Doug has 13 years of embedded software development experience and holds a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich. He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focussed on realtime image processing and process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic detection of objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many years of development and project management practice in Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations in MicroDoc, working mainly in business development and legal/contractual matters.

IBM

John Kellerman joined IBM in 1984 with a computer science degree from Purdue University. He's since completed graduate degrees in Computer Engineering at North Carolina State and Business Administration at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He has spent the majority of his years at IBM in the development and management of application development tool products, including ISPF/PDF, VisualAge Smalltalk, Eclipse and Jazz. John was a founding member of the Eclipse project. He is currently Product Manager for Jazz and Eclipse at IBM. Finally, John co-authored the award winning book, Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse. See www.jdg2e.com.

Innoopract

Jochen Krause is the project lead for the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) project, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation. He is CEO of Innoopract, a recognized leader in Eclipse distribution and web application development. Jochen has had a leadership role in the Eclipse community since its inception in 2002, and in addition to RAP development, co-leads the Eclipse Runtime PMC and participates in setting the directions for the next generation Eclipse Platform (e4).

Jochen has focused Innoopract's product development on bringing Eclipse technology to enterprise customers, and at the same time has guided the company in making strategic technical contributions to Eclipse. In addition to Jochen's activities, Innoopract staff are involved in many Eclipse projects such as Riena, Eclipse Packaging and G-Eclipse.

OBEO

Stephane Lacrampe is the CEO of Obeo. He's got a technical background in mathematics combined with IT. He started his career in the Telecom industry before switching to Internet technologies, working in a startup in London for two years. He also worked for very large insurance, banks and services companies back in France, where he learned about technical and methodological aspects of working with modeling technologies.

Stephane Lacrampe founded his own private company, Obeo, with two other associates in 2005, in order to provide innovative modeling and reverse engineering solutions based on Eclipse technologies. He is now in charge of growing the company and also focuses on growing the French Eclipse community.

Oracle

Dennis Leung is Vice-President of Development for Oracle Fusion Middleware, leading the development teams for the award-winning Oracle TopLink product, Eclipse Dali, and EclipseLink projects. Dennis has been involved in providing enterprise data solutions for over 14 years and also has a background in telecommunications. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Business Administration from Queens University.

CA Inc.

Paul Lipton is an Advisor and Senior Architect in CA where he leads the CA Industry Standards and Open Source Program in the Office of the CTO. Paul has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He has also participated in many standards organizations including OASIS and the W3C, and serves on the Board of Directors of the DMTF. Paul is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence, where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 to improve research collaboration. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering topics such as industry standards, SOA, open source, technical innovation, enterprise architecture, social computing, virtualization, Web services, management/security, governance, autonomic computing, Web 2.0 and many other emerging technologies.

Elected Committer Representative

Ed Merks leads the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and co-leads the Eclipse Modeling project along with Rich Gronback from Borland.  He is a coauthor of the authoritative book EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework which is nearing completion of a second edition. He is interested in all aspects of Eclipse modeling and its applications.  He is well recognized for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year.  He is also an active blogger.  He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser Univeristy.  His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.

itemis AG

Wolfgang Neuhaus is a co-founder and member of the board of itemis AG. Previously he was Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Brockhaus AG and headed a team of 80 software developers and consultants.

Wolfgang earned a degree in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund in 1995. He has extensive practical experience in introducing and implementing Model Driven Software Development, which is his core focus. He is a well-known journal-published writer, an IT conference speaker, and is responsible for the company's technical vision and for the cooperation with research institutes.

He also is a member of the strategy committee for software intensive embedded systems of BITKOM.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

At Google, Shawn is committed to fostering the growth of the open source ecosystem by supporting existing programs such as Google Summer of Code, and the development of new communities, like the Android Open Source Project. Prior to joining Google, Shawn lead a development team at Bank of America building domain-specific plugins for the Eclipse platform.

Outside of work, Shawn is an active contributor in the Git community, pushing the limits of distributed development tools.

Cloudsmith Inc.

Mitch is a co-founder and CEO of Cloudsmith. Mitch is currently on his third career. In his first, he was a lawyer specializing in venture funds and financings (i.e. the sidelines). In his second, he was a Wall Street research analyst (i.e. the press box). In his third career, Mitch took the last step onto the playing field as head of corporate development and strategy at one of the leading technology companies of the day.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Mike Taylor is President, CEO, and co-founder of Instantiations, Inc. and has been involved with Eclipse since late 1999. He has extensive senior management experience in the enterprise software development tools arena. During his 30-year career in the software industry Mike has been involved in founding several successful high-tech software companies.

Mike holds a BA and and MBA from the University of Washington. In addition to his software-related business activities he is a private pilot, past-president of the Oregon Archaeological Society, and has co-authored several books on Pacific Northwest Indian rock art. Mike lives happily with his wife and dog in Vancouver, Washington.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative