Alan Zeichick

Pär Emanuelsson

Thomas Eitzenberger

Timothy Webb

Alan Zeichick co-founded BZ Media LLC in 1999, bringing 20+ years as a software developer, technology analyst and industry journalist to the company. He serves as editorial director for the company's magazines, including SD Times, Software Test & Performance, and Eclipse Review, and newsletters, chairman of several of its conferences, and manages its BZ Research arm. After starting his career as a mainframe programmer and systems analyst in the 1970s, Mr. Zeichick shifted over to the world of technology journalism in 1984, beginning at a small publishing company in rural New England. From 1987-1990 he worked for IDG Communications and was recruited to Miller Freeman Inc. in 1990. As an editor-in-chief and editorial director at Miller Freeman, Mr. Zeichick led the content-oriented aspects of the start-up, acquisition and repositioning of several publications, as well as several trade shows and conferences. His final project at the company was the award-winning repositioning and redesign of LAN Magazine into Network Magazine. A prolific author and popular speaker, Mr. Zeichick left Miller Freeman in 1998 to develop Camden Associates, the technology analysis and consulting firm he launched in the early 1980s. In April 1999, he partnered with Ted Bahr to launch BZ Media LLC. Mr. Zeichick is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pär Emanuelsson has a PhD in Computer Science 1980. Research positions in Linkoping, Sweden and Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park USA. General manager at expert system company Epitec AB, Linköping 1984. Senior consultant at Softlab AB 1990. Currently system manager at Ericsson AB and Eclipse representative for Ericsson.

Studied technical Physics at the technical University of Graz and completed the study in march 2000. Joined Siemens PSE in 2000 and has been involved with end to end solutions based on Java and/or markup language based technologies since the very first day. Former hardcore developer that refused to accept GUI based IDEs until he met eclipse in 2004. Has been actively pushing Eclipse as standard development IDE inside of Siemens PSE.

Timothy Webb works for Cisco Systems focused on Eclipse-based technology deployments across the company. He is the proposed lead for the Maya project proposal and currently leads a team in Cisco to build out an enablement and distribution platform for RCP-based tooling; with the goal to enable adoption of Eclipse-based technologies by engineers who may have no prior knowledge of the platform. Previous work with Eclipse includes leading creation of a test automation platform which integrates a testing IDE coupled with automated distribution of testing services via remote OSGi containers. With over eight years working at Cisco, he has filled many roles including architecting a massively scalable broadband provisioning system and for the past four years leading innovation which utilizes the Eclipse platform and a plethora of associated technologies.