|
 
VP & Conference Chair, Business Development, Alfresco Software.
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay is currently general manager, Americas, and VP of Business Development for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.
Prior to Alfresco, Asay was on the founding team of Novell's Linux Business Office in 2002. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners. 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 open source software licensing and innovation, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent and Brigham Young University, respectively.
Asay is a board member for OSI, and serves on the advisory boards of various open source companies, including MuleSource, Loopfuse, SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Specifix, Radview, Bungee Labs, and Intoto.
|
|
