Simon Phipps
Simon is the founder of Public Software CIC, a european fiduciary host for open source free software projects, a director at The Document Foundation and at the Open Rights Group, and a past-President at OSI. Simon was previously instrumental in the liberation of the Java platform under the GPL as well as the opening of the rest of Sun Microsystems' portfolio. Earlier he was a co-founder of IBM's Java business, and before that he worked as a programmer and technical expert on a range of projects for Unisys and IBM.