DAVID CARUANA is Chief Architect and a founding engineer of Alfresco Software, where he is responsible for overall product architecture and design, and has developed many of the core capabilities of Alfresco, such as content modeling, workflow, Web scripts, and CMIS. With over 15 years of experience in the ECM industry, David has previously led product development at Documentum, where he created Web Development Kit, and Oracle, where he developed several content repositories. David is a member of the JSR 283 (Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0) Expert Group and the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee. He is also active on the Spring Surf and Apache Chemistry open source projects.

JOHN NEWTON, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, has spent the last 25 years building information management software. In 1990, he co-founded Documentum, the enterprise content management company acquired by EMC, with Howard Shao. John started his career in databases as one of the original engineers at Ingres, the relational database company, and ultimately ran the database development group. John was also one of the first entrepreneurs in residence in Europe at Benchmark Capital. In addition to the Alfresco board, John serves on the board of AIIM, the ECM industry group, and the London International Festival of Theatre. John graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981.

John blogs on content management, open source, and whatever he feels like on http://newton.typepad.com.

MICHAEL FARMAN has over 20 years experience in the content management industry. He started working at Interleaf, specializing in large-scale publishing, and was one of the early employees at Documentum, initially focusing on the pharmaceutical industry and the drug submission process. Mike spent over ten years at Documentum, where he worked in a variety of technical roles and vertical industries. Mike was an early employee at Alfresco, working in almost every department over the past five years, then settling in his current role as Director of Product Management.

MICHAEL G. UZQUIANO is the Director of Web Platform Tools for Alfresco Software, where he has led the development of Alfresco Surf and Web Studio for scriptable Web delivery and visual layout. He is also the head of the Spring Surf Project—a formal Spring Framework extension. With over 12 years of experience in the ECM industry, Michael previously pioneered product and service efforts at Trilogy Software, Epicentric, and Vignette.

Michael holds a Master's Degree of Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

KEVIN ROAST is a founding developer of the Alfresco platform and principal developer of the Alfresco Surf Web Framework. He has over 10 years of experience in the software industry and was previously a leading developer at Documentum. Kevin's expertise is in developing and performance-tuning enterprise-scale application platforms, as well as designing and implementing user interfaces based on innovative technology. Kevin is also a contributor to various open source projects.