Elected Committer Representative

Chris Aniszczyk is the technical lead for the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project at Eclipse. Chris also commits on various other Eclipse projects and sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Chris's passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling and anything Eclipse. He's always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

OpenMethods LLC

Nokia

SAP AG

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.

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.

Exist Global (formerly DevZuz)

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Robert Day has spent his entire career involved with software development. For the last 20 years his focus has been on embedded software; developing, selling and marketing many of the popular tools and real-time operating systems.

Robert has been heavily involved with the Eclipse Foundation since 2004, and has held the chair of the Eclipse embedded workgroup since then. He has published many articles, given many conference papers, and strongly promoted Eclipse into the embedded software market. His current position is VP of Marketing at LynuxWorks, who now have standardized on the Eclipse platform for all their development tools.

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.

Borland Software Corp.

Richard Gronback is chief scientist for modeling products at Borland Software Corporation, managing both open source and commercial product development. Richard co-leads the Modeling project Project Management Committee (PMC), along with Ed Merks of IBM, and leads the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) project. Richard holds a BSE in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and was a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy prior to his current career in software.

Zend Technologies

Andi Gutmans has been a lead contributor to PHP since 1997, when he and Zeev Suraski developed the foundation for PHP 3. The new version was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 4.5 million developers. He currently leads product strategy and innovation at Zend, including the open-source Zend Framework project. In addition, he has helped Zend evolve into a successful global Web solutions company and fostered its growth by securing four rounds of financing, aiding with key customer wins and supporting alliances with industry giants like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.

Andi was named one of Computerworld’s “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40”. Also, he is recognized from the widely circulated technical publications he has authored and is a frequent speaker on business and technology issues at global conferences. Andi is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation and serves on the board of the Eclipse Foundation. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

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.

Elected Committer Representative

Mik Kersten is the President and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project, committer on the AspectJ project, and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming IDE extensions. He then created Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface technology while completing his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik's passion is building Eclipse-based tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done.

Intel Corporation

Jon Khazam is Vice President & General Manager of the Manageability & Middleware Division in IntelÕs Software and Solutions Group. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for the development of value-add manageability-related software and middleware products, including the Intel XML Software Suite. Jon became involved with Eclipse in 2003 while he was leading the development of Intel software tools, including compilers, performance analysis tools, performance libraries and binary translation. He has been a key contributor to IntelÕs software enabling efforts since the introduction of MMX Technology, which first inspired his interest in software development tools. Jon has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He is also an independent board director at Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.

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

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.

Elected Committer Representative

Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi, RCP and Orbit teams, and is the founder of Code 9. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). Jeff co-leads the Eclipse RT PMC and is also a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools Project PMC, the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested in all aspects of Eclipse componentry, from designing, developing and building bundles, to deploying, installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc.), as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Emma McGrattan is senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. She is responsible for technology integration and the development of emerging technologies. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Emma has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line. Emma joined Ingres from CA where she held a similar position and was responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products. She started her career with Ingres in 1992, and has held a variety of senior development and management positions. Born in Ireland, Emma earned a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University.

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.

IONA Technologies

CA Inc.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Tracy Ragan has served as CEO and COO for OpenMake Software since 1995. She began her professional IT career in 1989 consulting to Fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Tracy recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had long been considered standard on the mainframe. In the four years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process. Tracy received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

Wind River

Sybase

Cloudsmith Inc.

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.

Sonatype

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Todd Williams is Vice President of Technology and co-founder of Genuitec and has been involved with Eclipse since its public launch in 2001. He is a recognized speaker and author on Eclipse technologies and his publications include a 2002 article that became the genesis of the Eclipse rich-client platform. Todd has over 20 years of experience in development of computing infrastructures, large scale distributed software architectures, and optimization of development processes, techniques and tools.

Prior to Genuitec, Todd served as Enterprise Architect for Viewlocity's Global Supply Chain Event Management Suite, Senior Consulting Architect at Objectspace, and Parallel Systems Consultant for Mobil's Advanced Research Center. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Motorola