The Management Team

	Mark A. Brewer Chief Executive Officer Mark Brewer is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience within the technology and software industry. Brewer joined Covalent Technologies, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions, in late 2001 as Vice President of Field Operations and took over as CEO in early 2004. In this position, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company, including overseeing worldwide sales, marketing and business development initiatives. Prior to Covalent, Brewer served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development for Banter Technologies where he built successful business models for selling eCRM solutions to large financial institutions and enabling technologies to CRM software vendors. Previously, Brewer was Vice President of Sales at Andromedia helping to define and build the sales model and partner strategies for the leading provider of enterprise web site analysis and personalization solutions provider. Brewer was instrumental in the successful merger between Andromedia and Macromedia (MACR) in late 1999. Before Andromedia, Brewer held a variety of sales management and executive positions with Powersoft (PWRS), which was acquired by Sybase (SYBS) in 1995, during the company's rapid growth phase in the early and mid 1990s. Brewer holds a B.S. in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Computer Science from Western Washington University.
	Ryan A. Lindsay Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer Ryan Lindsay brings more than 10 years of executive-level operations, finance, and sales experience to Covalent Technologies. In his current position, he is responsible for overseeing the company finance, legal and operation initiatives. An industry veteran, Lindsay has worked with enterprise software companies for more than a decade, focusing the past 8 years specifically on bringing Open Source to the enterprise. During his tenure at Covalent Technologies, Lindsay has worn many hats including acting as Chief Financial Officer, and overseeing company operations, customer support and services, product management, legal, human resource, sales, marketing and business development activities. He is credited with the development of nearly all operational tools currently in use at Covalent, including the company’s product distribution system, sales, financial, legal, HR, and customer support systems and processes. Prior to co-founding Covalent, entrepreneurial minded Lindsay co-founded InterLink Systems, Inc. in 1997 during his senior year in college. Under his leadership as CEO, InterLink Systems became a leading Internet services company specializing in the design and hosting of large commercial websites and Intranet systems. InterLink was merged with Covalent Technologies in 1998. Lindsay holds a BS in Management with an emphasis on Information Systems from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While at UNL, Lindsay helped establish the university’s entrepreneur/intern program. This program provided students with an opportunity to work for start-ups and determine if starting a business was right for them while providing quality services for start-ups in need of affordable labor.
	Jim Jagielski, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer Web/open source visionary and advocate Jim Jagielski currently serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of products and services for the Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Axis and Geronimo. Early in his career, Jagielski went to work for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as an engineer. His main tasks were in modeling, simulation and analysis of spacecraft power systems. At GSFC, he was an early convert to the Macintosh (his PC of choice even today). When Apple released their first version of UNIX, called A/UX, Jagielski quickly became a known expert in that OS. He was the editor of the FAQ for A/UX, and Apple would even have people contact Jim if they had A/UX questions. It was his association with A/UX that started his guru reputation on the 'Net. Since then, Jagielski has made developer and porting contributions to numerous Open Source projects, including Perl, sendmail, BIND/named, PHP, xntpd, GNU, cgiwrap and FreeBSD. He's also written a lot of independent code and is best known as a long-time (almost "charter") core developer of several Apache projects, including the Apache Web Server (after having helped develop the later versions of NCSA's httpd server), Apache APR and Apache Tomcat. Jagielski also serves on the Board of Directors of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) where he currently holds the position of Chairman. A frequent speaker, he also serves on the Advisory Board of the Open Source Software Initiative (OSSI). In 1994, Jagielski started jaguNET Access Services, LLC, a very successful and acknowledged ISP and Web Hosting company based in Maryland. He also served as partner for OneStopSite, LLC, a Web Technologies firm and was CTO for Zend Technologies, USA, the PHP company. Jagielski was an editor on Slashdot, heading the Apache and Web section. He also had a monthly column in Web Techniques and New Techniques, called At Your Server, all about server-base infrastructure. Jagielski graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1983 with a BES in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. While at Hopkins, he was one of the student SysAdmins for the Engineering school's PDP-11 and VAX computer, where he got his first taste of C and UNIX and networks. He has since obtained his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science as well.
	Charles W. Purdom Vice President, Marketing Charlie Purdom is Vice President of Marketing for Covalent Technologies, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. In this position, Purdom is responsible for stewarding the Covalent brand image and identity on a day-to-day basis. Purdom brings more than 20 years of business-to-business and technology marketing and public relations experience to Covalent. Before Covalent, Purdom served as Vice President of Corporate Communications for Round1 – Private Capital Marketplace, a leading provider of financial software and services to enable more efficient private capital markets. Prior to Round1, Purdom served as Manager of Public Relations and Communications for Andromedia, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise Website analysis and personalization solutions acquired by Macromedia (now Adobe). Previously, Purdom served as a Principal and Senior Account Supervisor for Purdom Public Relations, a leading high technology and B2B communications public relations agency (acquired by Publicis Groupe SA). His clients included Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Acuson Corporation (now Siemens Medical), Varian Associates, Autodesk, National Semiconductor, and Tektronix, among others. Purdom graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in English. He also studied English Literature and History at Worcester College, Oxford University.
	William A. Rowe Jr. Senior Engineer & Release Manager William is a Senior Engineer for Covalent Technologies, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. In this position, Rowe is responsible for developing and delivering Covalent’s certified builds of Apache, Tomcat and related modules. William's contributions to Apache include numerous enhancements to the Win32 port of the HTTP Server project, including CGI, security, Service control, file system support, and APR design targetted at the WinNT native API. He provides Win32 hints to Apache related newsgroups, and has been a speaker at previous ApacheCon events. As a Board member of the ASF and a member of the Apache httpd and APR projects, and a Senior Engineer with Covalent Technologies, his work on Apache continues in areas such as integration of Apache 2.0 with the Win32 security model and add-in modules. William started his career developing an array of customized and revenue document imaging systems. Prior to joining Covalent, he provided consulting services in data transformation, application integration and Web interface services.
	Filip Hanik Senior Software Engineer Filip is a Senior Engineer for Covalent Technologies and a key participant in Covalent’s Apache Tomcat initiatives. Filip brings extensive experience in architecture, design and development of distributed application frameworks and containers and is recognized for his top-quality system development skills and continuous participation of Open Source development projects. Filip is a committer to the Apache Tomcat project where he is a leading authority on Tomcat clustering and author of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Tomcat. Prior to joining Covalent, Filip worked as a Senior Software Engineer/Architect for La Quinta Corporation. Previously, Filip has made contributions to software initiatives for walmart.com, Sony Music, France Telecom and has held a variety of senior software engineering positions with VRP Consulting, Pakana Corporation, XmarkstheSpot.com, Extrico Data AB, IRIS Data AB, and SEBA Data AB. He received his education at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden where he majored in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.