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| Jason van Zyl is CTO of Sonatype and the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework and the |
| Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves on the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been |
| involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected |
| incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software |
| conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech and ApacheCon. Jason has over ten years of enterprise |
| software development experience. He founded Periapt, Inc., a company that provided software infrastructure |
| development services to Fortune 500 companies such as Toyota Corp., Bank of America and Coca-Cola Co. Previous |
| to Periapt, he worked as a Technology Architect at Compusense, a world leader in sensory analysis and data |
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