Black Duck Software - Advisors
Dr. Alex Aiken is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he focuses on tools for detecting errors and checking specifications of software, identifying and testing open source software, automatic program analysis and programming language design. He is also the developer of Moss, a system used at thousands of institutions for detecting plagiarism in software. Dr. Aiken was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center and a Professor at UC Berkeley before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003.
Karen F. Copenhaver is a partner in Choate Hall & Stewart‘s Business & Technology Group. Her practice focuses on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of software licensing and open source business models. From 2004 through 2006, Karen was executive vice president and general counsel of Black Duck Software, Inc., where she was instrumental in establishing automated methods of software compliance management as an industry best practice. Before joining Black Duck, Karen was a partner in the Patent and Intellectual Property Group of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP from 1994 through 2004. She began her legal career in 1979 at IBM Corporation and served as, among other positions, site counsel for the IBM Microelectronics Division, Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. She was a Partner at Brown & Bain LLP in Phoenix, AZ and Palo Alto, CA from 1991 through 1994.
David Flaschen, is an operating partner of private equity investment firm Castanea Partners and a frequent speaker on corporate governance. He has 20 years of executive experience in the information services industry managing and advising technology companies. Prior to Castanea, Mr. Flaschen was a managing director at Flagship Ventures, and CEO of Thomson Financial and Donnelley Marketing Inc. He has been a director of TripAdvisor, OnExchange and Paychex (PAYX), Inc., as well as several privately held companies.
Ben H. Flowe, Jr. leads the export and sanctions compliance program of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P. in Washington DC, supported by colleagues Wayne Rusch, John Ordway, Bruce Zagaris, Dan Fisher-Owens, Ray Gold, Tom Viles, and Jason McClurg, among others. For over twenty-eight years, Ben has advised U.S. and non-U.S. based businesses of all sizes on all aspects of export controls and sanctions on dual-use and munitions items, including representation on enforcement matters. He is the author of the comprehensive Export Compliance Guide (1995), has been a member of the Commerce Department’s Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee for four four-year terms (he chaired the RPTAC’s 1996 rewrite of the Export Administration Regulations, and Encryption and Enforcement and Compliance Working groups), was Co-Chair of the American Electronics Association’s (now TechAmerica) Export Control Committee 2002-03, and was Chair or Vice-Chair of the ABA’s Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee for 10 years. He has counseled and represented many U.S. and non-U.S. clients, written and spoken extensively, advised several Administrations, and testified before Congress on export control and sanctions reform. He has worked on each of the Commerce regulation changes on encryption exports since 1996.
Karim R. Lakhani is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School and a faculty fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be found and put to use inside for innovation in the biotechnology, life sciences and industrial chemicals industries. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open Source research community and web portal.
Palle Pedersen is the Chief Technology Officer for a start-up company currently in stealth mode. During his 20 years in the high technology market, Palle has designed and helped developed innovative systems and processes that efficiently hold, manage, process and deliver large-scale electronic data sets. In addition, Palle has a strong background in object-oriented and optimizing compiler technology and has worked with Open Source Software for more than 15 years.
From 2003 to 2008, Palle was Chief Technology Officer for Black Duck Software, Inc. and was a key member of the executive team that introduced the flagship product protexIP to market. Prior to Black Duck, Palle founded and served as CTO of both Wallaware, which developed server software for wireless carriers and Justa Technology, which built scalable software for network based applications. He was also founder and Managing Director of Spydre, LLC, a venture catalyst, and Vice President of Product Development and CTO at Integrated Computing Engines, Inc, where he was responsible for the technology strategy and the creation of their high-performance parallel processing architecture.
Earlier in his career, Palle created new parallel algorithms and designed parallel compilation techniques exploiting multi-level memory hierarchies at Thinking Machines Corporation. While at Thinking Machines, Palle achieved multiple world record benchmarks.
Larry Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He is founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm that specializes in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. In addition to this law practice, Larry also served for many years as general counsel and secretary of the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI). He currently advises many open source companies and non-profit open source projects including Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and the Free Standards Group. Larry serves on the board of International Characters, and on the advisory boards of Black Duck Software, Spike Source and JasperSoft. He speaks around the world about open source and open standards. His book, "Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law", was published by Prentice Hall in 2004. He is currently a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School.
Janpieter Scheerder, retired from Sun Microsystems after 10 years in senior executive positions, was last the president of the SunSoft division. In that role, he was responsible for the development, engineering, marketing, and sales of Sun's software products, including the Solaris operating system. He also served as vice president and general manager of Sun's network servers and information products group, where he directed activities for Sun's server and storage products. Before his tenure at Sun, Janpieter was a senior executive with Data General for 15 years, holding various sales, marketing, and engineering positions. His many notable accomplishments there included overseeing engineering for the first of that company's highly successful Aviion and Clariion RAID products.
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