Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. He is the CEO of Collabora Productivity, overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers and
partners alongside the community. He has served as a Director of the The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora he gained a wide experience as a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linux stack to from the base-system, boot-time, MeeGo, GNOME, CORBA, Nautilus, Evolution and Open Source accessibility, among others.