Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco as a General Manager and Vice President.

Prior to Alfresco, Asay was an early member of Novell's Linux Business Office. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Network & Communications business.

Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.

Richard co-founded Pentaho in 2004 and is responsible for the strategic vision, direction and day-to-day leadership of the company. Richard has held key executive management positions in the business intelligence software market for over 20 years, starting his career at IBM. Richard was a Co-Founder at AppSource Corporation (acquired by Arbor Software which later merged into Hyperion Solutions) and Keyola (acquired by Lawson Software) and is an avid waterskiier.

Manel is leading Openbravo to fulfill its vision and extend the adoption of ERP to all small and midsize enterprises through an innovative open source business model. To this end, Manel is responsible for overall strategy, management, international expansion.

Manel comes to Openbravo following seven years with DiamondCluster International where, as a Senior Principal, he led the successful launch of eight businesses in various countries and consulted leading telecom players in the areas of overall strategy, marketing & sales, customer service and overall turnaround programs. Prior to DiamondCluster, Manel worked at Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture).

Manel has a BS in Engineering and Industrial Organization from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and did his postgraduate studies at London School of Economics.

As Chief Products Officer, Paolo leads Openbravo's ERP product development organization. In this capacity, he coordinates with the Openbravo community to define the product roadmap, and is responsible for all engineering and integration projects in the ERP space.

Prior to joining Openbravo, Paolo was based in Redwood Shores, California, working for Oracle Corporation for over fourteen years in applications development. Most recently he was a Senior Director leading the development of the Service product line. He also held a broad range of development and management roles within Oracle's Applications business, including positions in the Financials, Supply Chain Management, CRM and Business Intelligence development teams.

Paolo also worked in Paris, France, as part of Oracle's Globalization team.

Originally Italian, Paolo graduated from Politecnico di Milano with a degree in Electronic Engineering and a specialization in Software Engineering.

Josep is in charge of Openbravo's Product Strategy and Business Development unit. Among many activities in Josep's wide range of responsibilities, he leads the definition and execution of the product strategy and marketing approach, drives business development activities, builds corporate alliances and is in charge of defining the international growth model, Openbravo's web presence, as well as Openbravo's marketing & communication initiatives and IT & Systems department. Lastly, Josep is also an Openbravo Board member and a Board member of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), which Openbravo co-founded.

Prior to joining Openbravo, Josep was a principal with DiamondCluster International (now Oliver Wyman), where he worked in more than 10 countries across 3 continents advising senior executives in the high tech industry. In the start of his career, he worked for BASF in Germany and Spain.

Josep holds an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, and from MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Previously he graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

Josep also serves on the board on the Open Solutions Alliance, an international organization that aims to promote the use of open source in the enterprise and facilitate the interoperability among the leading open solutions.

Cees is responsible for the global partner ecosystem and the international subsidiaries. As Vice President of Global Commercial Operations, Cees is in charge of defining the company's global channel strategy, attracting and developing the very best partner network as well as defining key growth initiatives in developed and emerging markets.

Cees has 20 years of experience in the ERP industry, mostly in defining international go-to-market strategies, setting up subsidiaries and building channels for international software vendors like Navision and Microsoft.

Prior to joining Openbravo Cees was Managing Director of Navision Netherlands, Director for Microsoft Business Solutions and most recently responsible for defining the go-to-market strategy for Microsoft Dynamics Entrepreneur.

Cees holds a MBA from Nijenrode Business University in the Netherlands as well as a MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business of the University of Rochester in New York state, USA.

Ismael Ciordia leads the engineering team with a special focus on platform development. He is responsible for defining the technology and architecture of the Openbravo products with the aim to make those the best available solutions for end-users.

In 2001, Ismael co-founded Tecnicia (the predecessor of Openbravo). Prior to that, he worked for the University of Navarra as a software engineer, leading development projects. In his spare time" he is a lecturer of Software Engineering at the Engineering School of San Sebastián.

Ismael has a BS in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV) and is a PhD Engineering candidate at the University of Navarra.

Andreu Bartolí is currently leading the Sales organization within Openbravo, playing an important role in building and managing the Openbravo global sales force. To this end Andreu is responsible for acquiring and developing best in class partners to cover the large demand that today exists around Openbravo products. Likewise, Andreu leads the management of the team that deals with direct client demands.

Prior to joining Openbravo, Andreu was a Manager at Accenture specializing in Supply Chain Management, SAP implementations, and Services Management for Accenture Global Network (within the Supply Chain Center of Excellence framework). In 6 years there he acquired an international background working in Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and UK. He started his career in the electronics and machine manufacturing industries working in both China and Spain.

Andreu graduated from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) with a degree in Industrial Engineering. He also holds a degree in Materials Engineering offered by The University of Lorraine (France) which included study abroad programs at the University of Saarland (Germany) and University of California, Los Angeles (USA).

Jordi brings to Openbravo a wealth of knowledge and experience in all matters related to open source.

He has been a free software contributor since 2002 when he started collaborating with the Abiword open source project. Nowadays, he is an active contributor to GNOME, Abiword and Mono. He has written many articles about technology as well as two books: "Free Software: technically viable, economically sustainable, socially just" and "Free Software and enterprise in Catalonia. Success cases". He also co-authored the book "Software engineering in free software environments".

Jordi has more than 10 years of experience in software development with a variety of companies: MENTA, Vodafone, Amena, Terra Networks, eresMas, InOut TV and Novell.

Jordi earned his bachelor degree in computer science at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and holds an Executive MBA from EADA Business School.

Richard is responsible for the financial capability of the Openbravo product, and for coordinating community and partner localizations initiatives. As Manager of Financials and Localization Richard is responsible for defining the company's global localization strategy, and ensuring the successful evolution of a localization ecosystem within the Openbravo community and partner network.

Richard has 10 years of experience in the ERP industry, mostly in Product Marketing and Product Management for international software vendors like Scala and Epicor Software. Prior to joining Openbravo Richard was Director of Product Management for Epicor, and most recently a founder member of the team defining the requirements and functional scope of Epicor 9.

Richard holds an BAcc (Hons) degree in Financial Accounting from the University of Dundee (Scotland).