Brian Behlendorf
CTO, World Economic Forum

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Brian Behlendorf is the collaboration advisor for the CONNECT project, bringing a depth of experience in open source projects to the team. Behlendorf has served as a director for CollabNet where he helped guide the company to its leadership position in distributed software development with over one million users on CollabNet’s on-demand collaborative development environment. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. Behlendorf is currently on the board for the Mozilla Foundation and a retired director and president of the Apache Software Foundation