Leadership

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  Benjamin Mestrallet

  Founder and CEO

  Benjamin Mestrallet is Chief Executive Officer of eXo, a company he founded just out of university to serve its first customer, the U.S. Department of Defense. With eXo's recent expansion to North America, Benjamin now oversees the Company's growth, marketing and sales strategy from San Francisco. He first created the eXo project while a student and, in December 2002, delivered the industry's first Java portlet container.

  Under Benjamin's leadership and care, eXo has expanded globally with operations in five countries and grown its product line to be the most comprehensive portfolio of open source collaboration software on the market. In recognition on his leadership and business savvy, a jury of France's top technology executives honored Benjamin as 2008's most outstanding young technology leader with the IVY Award. He holds an advanced master's degree in management science from the University of Paris IX Dauphine.

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  Bob Bickel

  Chairman of the Board

  Bob Bickel is a 25-year software industry veteran who mentors and works closely with emerging software companies. In addition to his role as Chairman of the Board at eXo, he is currently a Board Member for Metaverse and an Advisor to CloudBees, Funambol and JasperSoft. Other companies he has advised include Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource, in turn acquired by VMware), Bristol Technologies (acquired by IBM) and Princeton Softech (acquired by HP). Bob was Vice President of Strategy at JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), where he was responsible for the company's growth strategy, early strategic partnerships and recruitment of key management personnel. Previously, Bob was General Manager of Hewlett-Packard Middleware. He came to HP through its acquisition of Bluestone Software, which Bob helped create. At Bluestone, he oversaw initial sales, marketing and product development. He also led product strategy through the company's IPO and, later, its acquisition by HP.

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  Tugdual Grall

  Chief Technical Officer

  Tugdual Grall has more than 15 years of experience with middleware, Java and Web technologies. As Vice President of Business and Product Strategy, he works closely with the CEO to define eXo's growth and product vision. Tugdual oversees execution in the field with partners and large accounts and manages the development teams to ensure product adherence to the strategy.

  Tugdual joined eXo from Sogeti, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini SA, where he evangelized and worked on SOA and Web 2.0 projects. Prior to Sogeti, he spent eight years at Oracle, most recently as product manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware. In this role, he focused on product strategy in the development organization and engaged with key customers to accelerate adoption.Tugdual is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences.

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  Yann Aubry

  Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Field Marketing

  Yann Aubry is Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Field Marketing. Aubry brings deep knowledge of enterprise open source software and a strong track record of success to eXo. Prior to joining eXo, he was General Manager of France at Red Hat. While at Red Hat, Aubry developed and executed go-to-market strategies for the French market, where he was responsible for over $50 million in sales. Prior to Red Hat, Aubry held various sales management positions in the international sales organizations of Sun Microsystems and EMC. Aubry holds a Master’s Degree in management, business and marketing, and graduated with a degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Bordeaux, France.

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  Véronika Mazour

  Chief Financial Officer

  Véronika Mazour is Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for the financial management and health of the Company. Previously, Véronika was at BNP Paribas, one of Europe's largest financial services groups, where she served on the General Inspection team analyzing all aspects of the group's worldwide business. In this high-level management consulting and audit function, she reported directly to the CEO on ways to improve business strategy, sales/profitability, operations, finance, administration and HR, and organization and management structures.

  Véronika has also worked in strategy consulting at the Boston Consulting Group in Paris office and in private equity at Goldman Sachs in London. She has multiple degrees from France's top universities, including two master's degrees in engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and a master's degree in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris (IEP Paris), the Paris Institute of Political Science.

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  Francois Moron

  General Manager, Europe

  Francois Moron is Chief Operating Officer at eXo Plaform, responsible for managing the company's European operations and the services team. He first began contributing to the eXo Project in early 2004 with mobile support before joining the company. Prior to eXo, Francois held various IT management and R&D roles, including Orange and Total, the 180 billion international oil and gas company. Francois has a has a master's in information systems architecture from the University of South Brittany.

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  Oualid Chaker

  Vice President of International Business Development

  Oualid Chaker is Vice President of International Business Development and Alliances. Since joining eXo in 2008, his executive management responsibilities have included channel sales and business strategy development for the MEA region, as well as establishing both eXo's global support and inside sales teams. Oualid brings significant experience in research and development and IT project management to eXo. His prior work in France, Switzerland and Canada includes serving as Associate Researcher at Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal, Research Projects Manager for several telecommunications companies, and Aeronautics Engineer at SITA Geneva. Oualid holds a Ph.D in computer networks from Polytechnique Montréal, a Master's in Management from HEC Montréal and a Master's in Engineering from France's Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC). He has published several international scientific articles on computer networks and information systems management.

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  Brice Revenant

  General Manager, SEA

  Brice Revenant is General Manager of eXo's Vietnam office, with responsibility for managing the R&D team based there and for business development in the Asian market. eXo's first employee in France, Brice was previously Vice President of Customer Operations. He first came to eXo as a contributor on the eXo Project.

  Prior to eXo, Brice worked in the areas of open source for several large systems integrators and software vendors, including Bull, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. He has a master's degree in information technology and applied mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), one of France's top engineering schools.

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  Gennady Azarenkov

  General Manager, Ukraine

  Gennady Azarenkov is General Manager of eXo's office in Ukraine, one of the company's primary R&D centers. He oversees the development teams based here on low layers.Gennady is an IT specialist with 18 years of experience is software engineering, system architecture and project management. He began contributing to the eXo project in late 2003 and implemented first release of eXo JCR (JSR-170). Currently, he is a member of the Content Repository for Java Technology API 2.0 (JSR-283) Expert Group. Gennady is a graduate of National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), the country's top school.

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  Patrice Lamarque

  Vice President of Products

  As Vice President of Products, Patrice Lamarque is in charge of eXo Platform, the supported enterprise product delivered to eXo customers. He leads several cross-departmental teams worldwide, and is responsible for the overall product architecture and strategy, integration and packaging, documentation, maintenance and delivery. Prior to his current role at eXo, Patrice served as project development manager for eXo Social, eXo Collaboration, and eXo Knowledge open source projects. Patrice originally joined eXo in January 2008 as a consultant, where he helped eXo's customers design, build and implement eXo solutions.

  Patrice has over 10 years experience in enterprise software, where he has worked in both small start-ups and large professional services firms like Capgemini. He has been involved in a range of industries including aeronautics, energy, charity and real estate. He has a masters degree in computer science from UMLV.

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  Frederic Drouet

  Vice President of Project Development

  Frederic Drouet has over 10 years of experience in software development, architecture and project management. As Vice President of Project Development, Frederic is in charge of all eXo development teams worldwide.

  Before joining eXo, Frederic led the Java expert team for Generali France. In this role, he was responsible for the company's comprehensive Java development strategy (standards and best practices, documentation and technology selection, developing frameworks for internal use, implementation and maintenance of the Software Factory and related development tools), as well as providing operational support to all architecture and technical development teams. Fred has an engineering degree in Industrial Biology with a specialization in Process Engineering.

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  Dimitri Baeli

  Vice President of Strategic Projects

  Dimitri Baeli is Vice President of Strategic Projects, where he works closely with the CEO to manage critical projects, ranging from key customer and partner development to technology evaluation and acquisition. He previously served as Vice President of Quality, where he was responsible for improving eXo product and development practices since joining the company in 2008. Under his guidance, eXo has generalized the Scrum agile methodology, defined the release and support processes and created dedicated teams on Software Factory (better builds) and Release (better deliveries). Dimitri brings over 10 years of experience building computer interfaces for several French software vendors, including Datox (web content management for media and publishing), Dotvision (with 3D and M2M networks), Almonde (banking software) and Prima-Solutions (insurance software and UML modeling). Dimitri holds a postgraduate DEA in human-computer interaction from Grenoble University and a master's degree in computer science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), one of France's top engineering schools.

Board of Advisors

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  Patrick Chanezon

  Patrick Chanezon is Senior Director, Developer Relations at VMWare, where he is responsible for building the developer relations team. Prior to this position, he served as Developer Advocate for Cloud and Apps at Google, where he worked since 2005. His responsibilities at Google included building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France.

  Apart from programming and reading books, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

  Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon where he graduated in 1993.

  More on his blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com/ or his Twitter stream at http://twitter.com/chanezon

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  Edwin Khodabakchian

  Edwin Khodabakchian is an entrepreneur and software developer, currently focusing on personalization, mash-ups and semantic Web technologies at Feedly, which he co-founded. Previously, he was Vice President of Product Development at Oracle, responsible for growing the Oracle SOA Suite, including the Oracle BPEL Process Manager product line, formerly known as Collaxa (acquired by Oracle in 2004). As CEO of Collaxa, Edwin built up the company, helped define industry trends around Web orchestration and led the team that developed the first BPEL server. Prior to co-founding Collaxa, he was CTO of eCommerce at AOL and a software architect at Netscape.

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  Sacha Labourey

  Sacha Labourey was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and graduated in 1999 from EPFL. It was during his studies in 1996 that Sacha started his first consulting business - Cogito Informatique. In 2001, he joined Marc Fleury's JBoss project as a core contributor and implemented JBoss' original clustering features. In 2003, Sacha founded the European headquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company's growth in that region. While in this position, he led the recruitment of some of JBoss' key talent and acquisition of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, Inc. and as such, oversaw all of the JBoss engineering activities. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc. was acquired by Red Hat (NYSE:RHT). After the acquisition, Sacha remained JBoss CTO and played a crucial role in integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat's middleware division. He ultimately left Red Hat in April 2009. Following a period of research, Sacha became convinced that public cloud infrastructure would lead a fundamental IT paradigm shift and that middleware would play a key role in that shift. As a result CloudBees, Inc. was formed in April 2010. In addition, Sacha has contributed to eXo as a strategic advisor since 2009.