Sacha was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and graduated in 1999 from EPFL. It was during Sacha's studies in 1996 that he 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.
Team
Management
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VP of International Business DevelopmentFrançois has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career as a developer and project manager for a large IT organization, then went on to co-found a UNIX VAR business in 1988. In 1994, after four years at KPMG's IT consulting practice in Paris, he joined Sun Microsystems' new professional services business unit in France, managing it from 1999 to 2002. He went on to create Mapics' professional services operations -- now part of Infor -- in EMEA. He joined JBoss in 2005 to launch its services and support activities in EMEA. After Red Hat's acquisition, he moved to Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. From Raleigh, he managed worldwide support for JBoss, then launched Red Hat's worldwide partner support program for both the Linux and JBoss businesses. François is now based in Paris.
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Senior VP of ProductsSteve joined CloudBees in September 2011 to drive overall product development and product management. Steve came to CloudBees after more than 13 years leading Oracle's Java server development organization. He joined Oracle in 1998 to manage the team that delivered Java support natively, inside the Oracle database. Steve led Oracle's Java products and strategy from the inception of Java EE though the acquisitions of BEA and Sun Microsystems. Along the way, he helped to establish Java-based middleware as a major contributor to Oracle's product portfolio. Before Oracle, Steve served as VP of Engineering for ParcPlace-Digitalk after selling his Smalltalk-based startup, Polymorphic Software, to the company. Steve's professional journey from the early days of object-oriented programming, through different development paradigms, into the emergence of the Java platform and its adoption in the enterprise convinced him that the changes being brought about today with the cloud and PaaS will fundamentally impact software developers and enterprises. He joined CloudBees to be at the leading edge of those changes.
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VP of Business DevelopmentAndrew has over 15 years of experience in business development and strategic alliances within the software infrastructure sector. Andrew was most recently a principal with Battery Ventures, focusing on the enterprise software and infrastructure sector, including PaaS. Prior to Battery Ventures, he directed corporate development at VMware, leading many of their acquisitions and strategic venture investments. While at VMware, he helped lead the investment in and subsequent acquisition of SpringSource. Through these initiatives, he developed an affinity for application development, deployment and management and realized the inevitability of Platform as a Service as a transformational technology. Previously, Andrew worked at Advanced Technology Ventures as an associate; and in venture and M&A advisory at Wasserstein Perella.
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VP of SalesJim is our English-born, Irish-bred, Boston-based, new-to-New-England-er VP of Sales. He has spent the last 25 years in increasingly senior customer-facing sales roles. Jim joined CloudBees following stints at cloud services innovator Appirio and software development's venerable Borland Software (now Micro Focus). Jim initially started his business career at GSK and Johnson & Johnson. From there, he went to IBM and started what has been a long, successful tenure in the IT industry, including stops at JD Edwards and PeopleSoft.
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VP of MarketingAndré brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology marketing and communications to his role as CloudBees VP of Marketing. He has experience in several enterprise software markets including application development tools, middleware, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise search and software quality and testing tools. André has particular expertise in working with the executive teams of enterprise software companies to create unique competitive positioning, build pipeline and establish sustainable market leadership. Prior to joining CloudBees, he served as principal analyst serving technology marketers at Forrester Research. He has also held a number of senior management positions in marketing and communications with companies such as Segue Software, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys Corp. and Bluestone Software. André holds a BS from Eastern University.
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FinanceBorn in St. Etienne, France, Laurence started her career at Club Med where she was responsible for the finance and human resources operations for some of their leading locations in Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan. In 2000, she moved to the Bay Area where she became financial controller of a fabless semiconductor company. As part of her job, she was responsible for the consolidation of the company's international subsidiaries. In 2004 Laurence moved to Switzerland where she became EMEA's Financial Controller for the very fast growing JBoss Inc. In 2006, Laurence moved back to her home country, but to Toulouse this time. Here she was the CFO of an open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) software team. In 2010, Sacha Labourey invited Laurence to take on the Corporate Controller position in the yet-to-be-named CloudBees. Laurence is a city council member, married to a Dutch engineer, has two kids, a fluffy labrador and loves reading techno thrillers and historical fiction.
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VP of EngineeringSpike Washburn was co-founder and CEO of Stax Networks, which merged with CloudBees in 2010. Since 1997, he has been a technology leader creating developer-focused products such as IBM WebSphere, Allaire JRun, Macromedia ColdFusion and Aptana Studio. After getting an injection of consumer-focused simplicity by building Onfolio (acquired by Microsoft) and Microsoft's Windows Live Writer, he is now putting his experience to manage the overall engineering organization.
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Engineering
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Elite Developer and ArchitectAdrian was born in Doncaster, England in 1969 (one day after Linus Torvalds), and graduated from the University Manchester with Joint Honors mathematics and physics in 1991. Adrian was the Chief Scientist for JBoss a division of Red Hat, and has written an especially wide range of software applications - from software delivery tools to accounts package - during his career. Adrian delivered key work on most of JBoss' critical subsystems. When not at a computer screen he enjoys sports and is a keen reader of history. Adrian's blog is visible on any Linux machine, simply type the command: cat /dev/random
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Elite Developer and ArchitectRyan has 12 years of development experience, most recently at Debix, JBoss and Red Hat. While serving as QA Manager at JBoss, he and his team built one of the largest known Hudson grids. Realizing his real passion was programming, Ryan returned to the trenches, but retained his commitment to software quality and automation. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two daughters.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectStephen has nearly twenty years experience in software development, most recently spending four years working on conferencing solutions while working for Avaya. He is involved in a number of open source projects including Apache Maven, Apache Cassandra, Mojo@Codehaus (where he has authored quite a number of Maven plugins) and Jenkins. He is a member of the Apache Maven PMC. He was one of the first non-Sun committers to the Jenkins (née Hudson) project and is the person directly responsible for the weather icons. Stephen lives in Dublin, Ireland - where the weather icons are particularly useful - with his wife and son.
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Support EngineerNicolas De Loof has been a Java Architect for 14 years, working for French IT services companies. Techno-addict and open source developer, he joined the Apache Maven team in 2007, where he focused on the Google Web Toolkit plugin. Having many contacts in the French Java community, in 2008 he launched a Java User Group in Rennes: the BreizhJUG. He has also spoken at many conferences about Maven and Software Factory, and actively supports the Java community.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectFabian has twenty years of experience developing enterprise scale software. Most recently, he was Chief Architect for Storage Management Software at Hewlett-Packard through its acquisition of AppIQ, the leader of standard based storage management. Prior to HP, Fabian was leading the development of natural language-based web applications for the retail and financial industry at Artificial Life. Born in Switzerland, he graduated from the EPFL where he was a researcher in Knowledge Based Systems. Fabian now lives in the United States in the Boston area.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectKohsuke is the creator of Hudson. He wrote the majority of Hudson core single-handedly. He has over 10 years of extensive experience in software development, ranging from Java to C++, .NET to x64 assembly, as well as system expertise on different platforms including Windows, Linux and Solaris. This broad range of expertise was a key enabler in various advanced features of Hudson. Aside from Hudson, Kohsuke was involved in JAXB, Metro web services stack, GlassFish v3, and RELAX NG at Sun Microsystems. He's also known for a large number of open-source projects, such as args4j, YouDebug, com4j, Animal Sniffer, Sorcerer, wagon-svn, MSV, Parallel JUnit extension, to name a few.
See http://www.kohsuke.org/ for more information about Kohsuke.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectIvan is a software developer who is interested in a wide range of technologies. However there are only so many hours in a day, so most of his days are spent developing code for CloudBees' DEV@cloud application. When he has some spare time he likes learning new programming languages and flying his quadcopter. Ivan currently lives in the small town of Cambridge, in New Zealand, where previously he worked for RimuHosting as sysadmin and Java developer.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectMichael is an open source polyglot developer. For his sins he spent time at JBoss, working on the Drools project, and then Red Hat, where he continually caused trouble on various projects. While at JBoss and Red Hat, he was active in speaking at various conferences and other engagements. His interest in the cloud is natural as he is attracted to disruptive technologies. Michael lives and works in the Blue Mountains, just outside Sydney, Australia, is married and has 2 kids and a poodle. He has no hobbies as his hobbies tend to turn into work anyway. "Find something you love doing, and then you will never work a day in your life again."
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Elite Developer and ArchitectVivek has fifteen years of experience working with key Web technologies. Prior to CloudBees, he spent ten years at Sun Microsystems as the Dynamic Language Lead for Glassfish, ensuring enterprise-grade deployment and scalability of languages and frameworks such as Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails, Python/Django, Scala or Lift on Glassfish. Vivek was also a lead engineer in the architecture and development of Sun's Web Services Platform known as JAX-WS, which went on to become one of the best OSS Web Services stacks on the market. He was also a lead developer and committer on various open source projects such as WSIT, Metro, JAX-WS RI, WOM (WSDL ObjectModel), Hudson, JAXB, GlassFish and GlassFish-Scripting. Vivek also owns the GlassFish gem project on RubyForge and has represented Sun in the WS-I Basic Profile and W3C WSDL 2.0 working groups. Vivek lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and two daughters.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectDaya is a techno-enthusiast software developer with over 12 years of experience, who made a career shift from biotechnology some 14 years ago. Prior to engaging in software development, he published two research papers on drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment. Today he loves Ruby and continues to play with Erlang, Clojure, Node.js and other wide ranging technologies. In the last 12 years he has worked with several start-ups across the United States as well as Fortune 100 companies like HP and Waste Management. Prior to joining CloudBees, he was a Java and Ruby senior technical lead for SkyAuction.com, a travel company. Currently he is focused on GrandCentral - the web console for the CloudBees Platform and Partner Ecosystem. When he has free time, he enjoys playing racquetball and listening to traditional Sufi music.
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Elite Developer and ArchitectGarrett was Chief Architect at Stax Networks, which merged with CloudBees in 2010. Garrett uses Erlang to build distributed, fault tolerant back-end systems. He has over twenty years of software development experience using languages like Java, Python, C/C++, and Erlang. He is the creator of Landshark, an Erlang-based web development toolkit that models Python's Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) design. He has been working on an embeddable version of CouchDB for Erlang applications. Prior to that, Garrett was Senior Technical Architect at Capgemini. Garrett concedes that MongoDB is scaled for the web, but thinks MySQL is still a viable option for many projects.
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Senior Director, Product ManagementHarpreet has 12 years of experience in the software industry in various roles. He came to CloudBees from Oracle where he was a Senior Product Manager in the Application Grid group - he helped onboard GlassFish into Oracle. He was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years in various roles such as Group Product Marketing Manager leading marketing efforts for Java EE 6, GlassFish 3.1 and monetization program for GlassFish Portfolio. He was also the Product Manager for Hudson and launched it as a supported product within Sun's GlassFish Portfolio. In his prior life, he was an engineer in the Java EE RI, GlassFish teams and was the technical lead for GlassFish 2.1. He has an MS degree in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and their puppy.
Sales and Marketing
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Sales ManagerCorey is a native of Boston. He graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from Boston University. Corey has four years of selling experience within both corporate and government markets. Throughout his sales tenure, he has shown a consistent track record of achieving and exceeding his yearly sales quotas. Prior to CloudBees, Corey worked for both EBSCO Publishing and ebrary where he played an instrumental role in developing the corporate and government markets. Corey currently resides in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In his spare time, you will most likely find him in the mountains running with his dog, biking or climbing rocks.
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Events ManagerAlyssa is a 12 year Sun Microsystems alumna where she held various program management roles in escalations, services, product management and marketing. While at Sun, she established a proven track record of meeting time to market for new product releases and was responsible for releases such as Solaris, Sun Cluster, GlassFish Portfolio, Java EE and Java Enterprise Systems.
Alyssa graduated from San Jose State University in 2004 with a B.A. in marketing. Her passions include cooking and pumping iron at the gym.
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Marketing DroneAn electrical engineer who was drawn over to the marketing dark side by the promise of unlimited free t-shirts, Lisa's greatest claims to fame might be authoring three Prentice Hall text books on National Instruments' LabVIEW software and helping design the first Student Edition of LabVIEW, now used by tens of thousands of students worldwide. Or it might be helping tens of companies build and sell innovative products that solve real market problems. As a product marketer for most of her career, and principal of a strategic marketing consulting company (Product Principles) for the last eight years, Lisa has launched dozens of software products that range from e-commerce and enterprise middleware to tools for developers, telecom and test and measurement software. Right now her favorite activities include dreaming up new ways to let people know how awesome the CloudBees platform is, herding cats and discovering new brands of truly exquisite chocolate.
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Advisors
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AdvisorBob Bickel is a 25-year software industry veteran who mentors and works closely with emerging software companies. He is currently a Board Member for eXo and Metaverse and an Advisor to 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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Member of the Technical Advisory BoardJ.J. is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has started several companies over the past 15 years. In 1995, J.J. founded Allaire Corp. whose flagship offering, ColdFusion, was an early leader in the web application server market. Allaire Corp. was acquired by Macromedia in 2001. The next year, J.J. founded Onfolio to create software that helped users discover and publish information on the web. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 and its core product, Live Writer, is now the standard blogging tool shipped with Windows Live. In 2008, J.J. created the iPhone application Lose It! to help people more effectively track their daily food and exercise. Lose It! has been downloaded over 6 million times and was the top free iPhone health and fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. J.J. is currently working on a new company, RStudio, which is focused on providing tools and services for the R statistical computing environment.
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Member of the Technical Advisory BoardEd Bugnion co-founded VMware, Inc. in 1998 and Nuova Systems in 2005 (acquired by Cisco in 2008).
At VMware, he played multiple roles including technical lead, Director of Engineering and CTO. At Nuova/Cisco, from 2005 until 2011, he led the core software teams of what would become Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), an integrated networking+server platform aimed at virtualized and cloud datacenters. He was most recently the VP/CTO of Cisco's Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group.
Ed is an expert in the areas of virtualization, computer systems, and datacenter networking. He has an engineering degree from ETH Zurich and a Master of Science from Stanford University, both in Computer Science.
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Member of the Technical Advisory BoardRichard Friedman is currently the VP of Engineering at MyYearbook.com, one of the top 20 websites in the U.S., recently launching a real-time social gaming platform with live video chat. He was the creator and lead of the JBoss Operations Network at JBoss and product manager for Red Hat Network. Previous to JBoss, he served as a VP/Senior Architect/Development Manager for JP Morgan Chase where he built an Enterprise Java system for credit card processing. He was the CTO for the HP Middleware Division, coming on board with the Bluestone team in the late 1990s.
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Member of the Technical Advisory BoardEduardo Pelegri-Llopart is Senior Technical Director for Open Software at Research in Motion. Eduardo was a Distinguished Engineer and a long time employee of Sun Microsystems. After working on SPARCworks IDE and Spring OS, Eduardo joined the Java group in 1995 where he participated and led multiple specifications, including Java Beans, JavaHelp, JSP, JSTL and several Web Services and XML specs. Over time he has focused on architectural and strategic roles mostly in the intersection of technical adoption, products and open source and community. Most recently Eduardo's responsibilities at Sun included engineering manager for Hudson and open source and community strategy for Sun's middleware group, which included the GlassFish server as well as the Web Server, Integration and Identity products and MySQL. Eduardo also led the Technical Team assessing the MySQL acquisition and was the long-time chief editor for The Aquarium blog, which published news from the GlassFish community. Eduardo earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and did his post-doc research at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the late 1980s. Eduardo most recently served as Architect for Open Source and Community at Oracle.
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Member of the Technical Advisory BoardA native Czech, Roman Stanek has founded five companies since the Velvet Revolution in 1989. After selling a software distribution business to Powersoft/Sybase, Roman co-founded NetBeans in 1997. The company disrupted the IDE market through smarter distribution and product innovation, outstripping Borland, IBM and Symantec. NetBeans was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, and now, as part of Oracle, remains one of the most widely used Java IDEs in the world. After NetBeans, Roman founded Systinet, the leader in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance. Systinet was acquired by Mercury Interactive/Hewlett-Packard in 2006 for $105 million. Today, Roman is founder and CEO of GoodData, which provides business intelligence software delivered as an on-demand service.
