About MindTouch

Aaron Fulkerson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Aaron is a multifaceted entrepreneur and technology advocate. He has held senior management positions at three technology startups and has helped to launch non-profits and businesses outside the technology industry. Aaron received his BS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.He worked for Microsoft Advanced Strategies and Policies on distributed systems and owned and operated a successful technology consulting firm. He is a recognized expert on communities, software, and open source and is regularly asked to speak on these topics at conferences and Universities. 

Steve Bjorg

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Steve is a seasoned technologist and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in software development and product design. He is the author of DREAM, an innovative service-oriented distributed architecture that is the foundation of MindTouch’s technology. Prior to founding MindTouch, Steve worked in advanced strategies at Microsoft. Before that, he founded a real-time 3D strategy game company. An expert in distributed systems and Web services, Steve has 7 patents and applications in distributed computing, behavioral type analysis, and graph theory. Steve received his BS/MS in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is now on the Advisory Board of its Computer Science department.

Doug Levin

Doug Levin is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Black Duck Software. In the past he has served as the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation; interim executive or consultant to CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation and other companies, and from 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation.

Matt Asay

Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.

Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®'s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business.

Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies.   He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource.   One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide.   Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000.   From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners.   In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999.