Advisory Board

Tim Golden, Senior Vice-President, Bank of America. Tim has 20 years IT management experience designing and implementing major infrastructure projects, both as a consultant working for IBM and currently as a senior vice president at Bank of America working exclusively with Linux and open source software technologies.

Doug Tracy, CIO, Dana Holding Corporation. Doug is CIO of Dana Holding Corporation, a Tier 1 supplier to the Automotive and Heavy Vehicle industries with 2008 revenues of $8.1 B.  He is responsible for all aspects of a global IT organization with staff on  six continents and 24/7 operations.  Prior to Dana Corp., Doug held IT executive and management roles with firms in the Aerospace, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services and Professional Services industries.

Barry Klawans, Barry was founder and CTO at Jaspersoft and responsible for the technical vision and direction. He has over 20 years of experience architecting and developing enterprise applications. Prior to JasperSoft, Barry was the Systems Architect at Bidcom, one of the original engineers at Remedy, and an early engineer at Sybase, where he spent five years of development effort on the core server and network access layer.

Mikko Puhakka, Consultant and Researcher. Mikko is an open source consultant and a researcher at Helsinki University of Technology. He founded Holtron Ventures in 1999 and was an early investor in MySQL. He is a founder of Open Tuesday in Finland.

Stephen Walli, Consultant. Stephen was vice president of R&D and founder at Softway Systems before being acquired by Microsoft. Currently he consults on software business strategy.