Michael has more than twenty years of experience in the enterprise software industry including executive and management roles in product management, marketing, engineering, and consulting at companies including BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), Oracle, Walker Interactive Products and several startups. At BearingPoint, Michael was a Senior Vice President and partner-in-charge of the global Oracle practice. At Oracle, he designed seven of the major Oracle Applications products.

Michael received an A.B. in German Language and Literature from Harvard College, USA.

Philippe is an enthusiastic technologist with deep knowledge of all facets of software development with 20 years experience as a software developer, team leader, management consultant and technical mentor in industries sectors ranging from chemical, energy, manufacturing and financial services to high-tech. He has worked with companies ranging in size from the Global Fortune 100 to startups.

Philippe is actively involved with open source software projects as the original co-author of EasyEclipse, as a committer on open source projects such as Ecipse, JBoss Drools and PHPEclipse, as a contributor to open source projects such as Joomla! and Mozilla, and as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code.

Philippe graduated from the Institut Superieur de Gestion, Paris, France, with a major in Business Administration.

François has extensive experience in software product development. Prior to nexB, François cofounded, and lead the engineering team, at ViaFone, a provider of mobile applications for the enterprise, subsequently sold to Extended Systems (NASDAQ: XTND). In previous roles, François also was instrumental in starting Collage, an Intranet Content Manager for NetObjects.

François received his MS degree in Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.