Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors

Elected Committer Representative

Chris is a software architect by trade with a passion for software evangelism, open source, and building communities. At Twitter, he's responsible for creating their open source program office and managing their open source efforts. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and on the Eclipse Technology PMC. In a previous life, he led and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related projects. In his spare time, you'll find him doing yoga, writing, running or cycling. You can read his blog or find him tweeting via @cra.

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 works for Google in Munich, Germany. He is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, and a committer on the Platform UI, e4, and Orion projects. He is proud to have helped increase diversity at the Eclipse Platform (a little) by attracting several outside contributors and helping them become committers. Before joining Google in 2011, he worked on Eclipse for IBM in Ottawa, Canada for six years, 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".

Talend

Cédric Carbone is Talend's Chief Technical Officer and Board Member of OW2 consortium (since the inception). Prior to joining Talend in 2006, he managed the Java practice at Neurones, a leading systems integrator in Europe. Cédric has also lectured at several universities on technical topics such as XML or Web Services. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and an advanced degree in Document Engineering.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Eric Clayberg is a Software Engineering Manager at Google and former co-founder and VP of Product Development for Instantiations (acquired by Google in 2010). He currently leads the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) projects and is the Project Lead for the WindowBuilder project at Eclipse.org (http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder).

He holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and is co-author of "Eclipse Plug-ins" (3rd Edition, Addison Wesley , Dec 2008), and "The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)" (Addison Wesley, Aug 2011). See http://www.qualityeclipse.com.

In his spare time, he enjoys one of world's largest collections of classic coin-op video games.

Actuate Corporation

Paul Clenahan is a founding member of the Eclipse BIRT Project and a continuing member of the BIRT Project PMC (Project Management Committee). Paul has over 20 years experience in the enterprise business intelligence industry working in a variety of Product Management and consulting roles with diverse customer applications.

In addition to his BIRT project role, Paul is VP of Product Management at Actuate and is responsible for coordinating overall product direction and vision for Actuate’s Business Intelligence technology based on emerging technology trends, market demands, customer feedback and internal innovation. Paul holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University, Scotland.

OBEO

Etienne is one of the major contributors for the SCA subproject in STP, and he is involved in the Eclipse SOA IWG. Etienne is one the founders of Obeo, focusing on Model Driven tools. He contributes to several Eclipse projects (Acceleo, ATL, EEF, ...) and to several Open Source communities. He also drives the commercial strategy of Obeo on Eclipse Modeling technologies for reverse enginnering of legacy code and viewpoint modeling.

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.

Elected Add-in Provider Representative

Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.

Innoopract GmbH

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.

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 Technologies

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.

BREDEX GmbH

Achim is a software developer and architect at heart. As a managing director at BREDEX GmbH he is responsible for technology and development strategies. In addition he is the project lead of the Eclipse Jubula project and represents his company in the Eclipse foundation.

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.

Sonatype

Jason van Zyl is CTO of Sonatype and the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework and the Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves on the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech and ApacheCon. Jason has over ten years of enterprise software development experience. He founded Periapt, Inc., a company that provided software infrastructure development services to Fortune 500 companies such as Toyota Corp., Bank of America and Coca-Cola Co. Previous to Periapt, he worked as a Technology Architect at Compusense, a world leader in sensory analysis and data research.