Speakers
Matt Asay
Conference Chair & VP, Business Development, Alfresco

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, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management. 

Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®’s Linux Business Office and was an early agitator and architect for the company’s shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry’s premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entrepreneur-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 Residential Gateway business. 

Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation. He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.

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