elections/2019/brewer.xml

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<boardmember id="brewer" type="add-in-provider">

	<name>Mark Brewer</name>

	<title>CEO, Lightbend</title>

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	<image>brewer.jpg</image>

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	<email>mark.brewer@lightbend.com</email>

	<phone>877.989.7372</phone>

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	<contact><![CDATA[
	c/o Lightbend, 625 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
	]]></contact>

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	<eclipse_affiliation>Solution Member</eclipse_affiliation>

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		<![CDATA[
		<p>The Eclipse Foundation, and its growing base of technologies that companies depend on, has been at the forefront of 
		driving innovation and community engagement.  With the addition of MicroProfile and more recently Jakarta EE projects 
		under Eclipse’s domain, I am more optimistic than ever that there is a future for Java in the Cloud Native world.  I 
		am excited to see and be a part of the future of Java as it 
		embraces <a href="https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">Reactive</a> principles 
		while enabling developers to leverage the benefits cloud nativity.</p>
		<p>It will take passionate individuals, an inclusive community and committed 
		companies to ensure that Java does move forward along these lines, but I could not 
		think of a better community and foundation to lead that effort.</p>
		]]>
	</vision>

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	<bio><![CDATA[
	Mark Brewer (@mabrewer7) is President and CEO of Lightbend - the provider of development platforms for 
	Reactive and streaming Fast Data applications. We are a passionate crew of 
	technology pioneers committed to building amazing software for developers on the 
	JVM. He has been in the open source world of software for 19 years, starting with 
	Covalent Technologies where we provided a distribution, support and services for the 
	Apache HTTP web server and Tomcat.  Mark worked with the Apache Software Foundation on their 
	marketing programs - including running ApacheCon between 2001 and 2008.  
	Following the sale of Covalent to SpringSource in 2008, he managed the business operations for the 
	company through it’s sale to VMware.  At VMware Mark was responsible for the middleware business unit and 
	led the acquisitions of a number of open source technology companies for the 3 years I was there. Mark 
	has also participated as a Board Member for several open source technology companies, including Stormpath, 
	LucidWorks and ActiveState.  Mark has a Bachelors of Science degree from Western Washington University.
		]]></bio>

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	<affiliation><![CDATA[
	Lightbend - We build and maintain the Akka message-driven runtime, Play web framework, 
	Lagom Microservices framework, and Scala programming language, and we contribute to Apache Spark. Our 
	mission is to help developers build high-performance applications that are message-driven, elastic, 
	resilient and responsive. We have been involved in the Eclipse community for many years - initially around 
	an Eclipse plugin for Scala and more recently in the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile projects.
	]]></affiliation>

</boardmember>