John Roberts is former Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of SugarCRM and is a pioneer in the open source enterprise application space having co-led the product design of Sugar Open Source. With strong business, marketing, business development and product management experience, he has introduced open source as the only viable contender to the established proprietary CRM solutions. John brought a strong enterprise CRM applications track record spanning 14 years which has helped make him the leading voice for open source CRM technologies. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, he held product management and sales engineering positions at E.piphany, BroadVision, Baan/Aurum Software and IBM.
Bob Bickel is an active Advisor or Board Member to several companies including Arjuna, Apax Partners, Bristol Technology, Funambol, Hyperic, Jaspersoft, and JBoss. He was the EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at JBoss from September 2003 through February 2006, helping to found the Professional Open Source business model, build the management team, and create meaningful partnerships with leading IT companies. Prior to founding Bickel Advisory Services, Bob was the GM of the HP Middleware Division and EVP of Products for Bluestone Software (acquired by HP in January 2001). Bob was one of the original creators who brought Bluestone's application server technology to the marketplace.
Larry Augustin is interim CEO of SugarCRM and an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993, he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999. Larry can be found online at http://lmaugustin.com.
Ujjal has over 25 years of experience in general management, engineering, marketing, strategy, M&A, and venture capital. Ujjal was EVP of Marketing & Sales for AirTouch Cellular, a $3.5 Billion revenue wireless carrier. As CMO, Ujjal led the creation and development of the AirTouch Cellular brand at its inception. Ujjal also led AirTouch Business Units in Northern and Southern California as VP/GM, and oversaw Strategy, M&A and Product Development in his six years at AirTouch Cellular. Before AirTouch, Ujjal was with McKinsey in their technology practice. Ujjal started his career at Intel Corporation, first in engineering and subsequently in marketing. Ujjal is a private investor/advisor in several start-ups including Mirapoint, ByteMobile, Flarion, Bridgewave Communications, Jasper Systems, EAS Inc, & TrueSpan. Ujjal holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Andrew Aitken is the Founder and Managing Partner of Olliance Group. He has over 18 years senior management experience in building and leading national professional services companies. In 2001, Andrew founded Olliance Group with other industry veterans to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Software Institute and the SDForum, and is Chair of their annual Open Source Conference. Andrew is on the Board of Advisors of SugarCRM, Funambol and Krugle, and has personally advised firms including Sun, Intel, Nokia, and numerous VCs and startups on their open source strategies.
Paolo Huscher is the former Director of IT & Technology Management for Vodafone, CIO of Omnitel and Executive at Wind. He has a strong technical background in Information Systems and Network Technology, including many years of international experience managing large and successful IT and technology organizations in the teleco industry. His background also includes stints at DEC and Honeywell Information Systems. He completed the Scientific Lyceum in Brescia and graduated in Nuclear Engineering, Electronics Specialization, from Milan Polytechnic.
Doug Garland is vice president of product management at Google where he leads Google's efforts in the development of mobile and local advertising products. Doug has more than 20 years of experience leading the development and growth of Internet and wireless services. Prior to Google, Doug was an executive in residence at the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Prior to that, he was a senior vice president at Yahoo!, where he led the company's mobile efforts and the launch of the broadband access business. He also held executive positions with Excite@Home and leading wireless companies, such as Sprint PCS. Doug began his career as a communications network engineer and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Doug holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree with distinction and a master's degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia.
As founder of gugliGroup, Inc., David assists clients with strategy for products, technology and business development. He has charted more than 20 years of hands-on experience in telecommunications and mobile services. David led advanced technology and product development teams at AT&T Wireless Services including music, imaging, location-based-services, messaging, and mobile-commerce products. He has held various technology and leadership roles at Sprint, Prime Computer, Dow Jones & Company and is a decorated veteran of the United States Coast Guard. David is also co-author of five patents related to mobile messaging and communications and is a recognized business and technology visionary in the mobile applications and services space.
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