Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf  is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served as President of the Foundation for three years.  Behlendorf has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003.

Behlendorf is currently the CTO of the World Economic Forum and a Director of CollabNet, a company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) in 1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative, distributed software development. CollabNet is also the primary corporate sponsor of Subversion, an open source version control system. He continues to be involved with electronic music community events such as Chillits, and speaks often at open source conferences worldwide.