Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. CollabNet provides on-demand distributed software development solutions and is the primary sponsor of the award-winning Subversion open source project. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. He is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation. In 2006, Behlendorf was named a Young Global Leader, an affiliate program of the World Economic Forum. Among his many books are Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and Running a Perfect Web Site with Apache.