Team

Dries Buytaert CTO and Co-founder

Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. He serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. A native of Belgium, Dries holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University.

Drupal.org ID: Dries blog: http://buytaert.net
Thomas Erickson CEO

Tom has over 25 years experience in software products and services. Most recently, he was the CEO of Systinet Corporation, a privately held software company that provided a foundation for service oriented architectures (SOA) in Global 2000 companies. Prior to Systinet, Tom was the executive vice-president, international for webMethods, the fastest growing software company in the USA from 1998 to 2003.

Before webMethods, Thomas was President, Asia Pacific for the Baan Company. Tom enjoys spending time in Australia, snowboarding, and playing golf. Thomas Erickson earned his honors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jay Batson Co-founder

Acquia is the second technology company Jay has (co-)founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, which was acquired by Bluesocket in 2007.) Jay's work passion is to build great companies that build things that users are passionately happy with. When not obsessing about products, he builds miles on his custom Serotta, is a rabid pro cycling fan (getting his news at VeloNews - a Drupal site!), and spends time under the headphones listening to and spinning all styles of house and trance music.

Drupal.org ID: batsonjay blog: http://underheadphones.com
Chris Brookins Vice President, Engineering

Chris joined Acquia from Vertical Communications, where he managed engineering for several IP PBX and call center products, and lead a large adoption of Scrum. Prior to Vertical, Chris managed engineering at Stylus Innovation, a telephony toolkit startup that was sold to Artisoft. At work, he is passionate about user and developer experiences and facilitating high performance teams. He is the proud father of 2 boys and a very amateur photographer, cook, and tennis player. Chris earned his BS in computer science from Lehigh University.

Drupal.org ID: cbrookins
Lynne Capozzi Vice President, Marketing

Lynne was previously the VP of Marketing at JackBe, a privately backed Enterprise Mashup software company where she was an Acquia customer and loyal fan. Lynne was also the VP of Marketing at Systinet, an SOA leading company. After the successful acquisition of Systinet by Mercury Interactive, she was the VP of Marketing of SOA for Mercury. Lynne was also the GM/VP of the Internet Applications Division at Lotus/IBM for many years.

Lynne's passion is running, and is a 5 time marathon runner. She has an undergrad and MBA degree from Suffolk University.
Gretchen FlemingCFO

Gretchen joins Acquia from Maven Networks, Inc., a leading Internet video platform provider acquired by Yahoo! in 2008. As CFO at Maven, Gretchen oversaw all aspects of Maven’s strategic planning, operations, financial, legal and human resources management. Prior to Maven, Gretchen served as CFO for MediaMap, Inc., acquired by Cision in 2003. She joined MediaMap from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she was a manager in the Audit and Business Advisory Services group. Gretchen earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University and is also a Certified Public Accountant. In her free time, Gretchen enjoys kickboxing, skiing and traveling.
Warren Utt Vice President, Sales

Warren has over 20 years of experience with software and services companies. Most recently, Warren served as CEO of Impress Software in Waltham, Massachusetts. Impress Software was a leading supplier of packaged integration software for the Enterprise Resource Planning market. Prior to Impress, Warren was Senior Vice President of World Wide Field Operations for BroadVision. Warren is the proud father of 2 boys and enjoys coaching basketball as well as playing tennis. Warren earned his BA from Hamden-Sydney College.
Tim Bertrand VP, Business Development

Tim came to Acquia from OpenSpan where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Channels, which included managing all worldwide ISV/OEM, Reseller, System Integrator and Public Sector relationships. Prior to joining OpenSpan, Tim served in various leadership roles including direct, indirect and Public Sector sales roles at Systinet Corporation (acquired by Mercury Interactive), Cape Clear Software (acquired by Workday) and Silverstream Software (acquired by Novell).

Tim graduated from Bryant University and currently resides in Sturbridge, MA with his wife and two dogs. Outside of Acquia, Tim and his wife own a semi-professional auto racing team & enjoy traveling.
Chuck D'Antonio Senior Director, Professional Services

Chuck joined Acquia from HP, where he managed a global SOA software consulting practice, completing a journey that started at Systinet. Prior to Systinet, he was a principal consultant at eFORCE and Context Integration. Chuck is a father of two children and a black lab. Chuck enjoys cooking, sailing, and reading. He's a lifelong resident of Medford, MA and was graduated from Bates College in 1995.

Drupal.org ID: crdant blog: http://chuckdantonio.com
Kent Gale Senior Director, Technical Assistance Center (TAC)

Kent joined Acquia from Angus Systems and brings a range of customer support and operations experience. Previously he held operations and customer management positions at e-learning and telecommunication firms. Prior to that he built a world-class support organization serving customers on three continents and supporting multiple products at ON Technology. His "thing" is figuring out how to delight customers by assembling the people and systems needed to deliver great service and support. When not keeping up with his two very active girls he enjoys tinkering in his workshop, reading about new gizmos, practicing karate, and pondering the cosmos.

Drupal.org ID: kgale
Bryan House Senior Director, Marketing

Bryan joined Acquia from EMC, where he managed product and outbound marketing for Documentum’s collaboration, document management and search technologies. Prior to EMC, Bryan worked in product marketing and product management in the collaboration technology space, after brewing beer professionally for seven years. Bryan lives in the Boston area and is an ardent Red Sox fan, he earned his MBA at Harvard.

Drupal.org ID: bhouse blog: http://beerobserver.com
Robert Douglass Senior Drupal Advisor

Robert’s Drupal adventure started in 2003. Along the way he co-authored the first book published about Drupal, was technical editor of Pro Drupal Development, became the maintainer of numerous modules, and organized Drupal’s “Google Summer of Code” involvement. Robert loves classical music and open source software dearly, and looks to each as a source for motivation and optimism.

Drupal.org ID: robertDouglass blog: http://www.robshouse.net
Gábor Hojtsy Code Gardener

Gábor is an open source enthusiast and contributor. He started his open source work as part of the PHP.net team, where he was the documentation team lead. With experience organizing open conferences and meetups, reviewing books, teaching courses and collaborating on all kinds of open source projects, he settled around Drupal over the past few years. In his spare time, Gábor likes to sing and act, especially in musicals.

Drupal.org ID: Gábor Hojtsy blog: http://hojtsy.hu/
Barry Jaspan Senior Architect

Barry is an entrepreneurially-minded computer programmer with a strong focus on computer security and privacy. Prior to Acquia, Barry spent two years as a Drupal core developer; he also created interMute, the first commercial web annoyance blocker, and Spamnix, a spam-blocking product. Barry is a maniacal whitewater kayaker and rock climber and generally spends his time wherever rocks, water, and gravity meet.

Drupal.org ID: bjaspan blog: http://jaspan.com
Kieran Lal Community Guide

Kieran earned his nickname, Amazon, by following a dream that he was biking through the Amazon river basin. That spirit of adventure continues in his multiple roles within the Drupal community today. He enjoys hiking, wine, and his wife Denise's gourmet vegan cuisine in San Francisco.

Drupal.org ID: amazon blog: http://association.drupal.org/blog/67
Peter Wolanin Momentum Specialist

Peter Wolanin made the leap (or perhaps just one step in a biased random walk) from being Senior Scientist at a bio-tech to working on what he truly loves, Drupal. Peter spent a large fraction of his non-working waking hours in the last couple years re-working Drupal core and maintaining contributed modules. In the free time that he hasn’t devoted to Drupal he enjoys watching and reading science fiction, hiking, getting involved in politics, and working on his town’s environmental commission. Peter graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Physics and a certificate in Engineering Physics and then went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Michigan where his research focus was biophysics.

Drupal.org ID: pwolanin