Eric Soares became Vice President Southern Europe at IngresCorp. in 2006. He is responsible for the expansion of Ingres presence on the French, Italian and Spanish markets, by developing strategic partnerships and new applications based on the Open Source model and thus providing Ingres customers with professional services of quality while significantly reducing their project costs.
Eric started his career in 1987 at the Gaz de France research centre as a Systems Engineer working on Mainframes IBM environments.
Two years later, he managed a team of engineers at Télésystèmes, a French software engineering company and a branch of France Télécom.
He joined Novell in 1992, where he held several sales middle management positions. After having been responsible for European partnerships, he held for six years several management positions and became Director of the French and Southern Europe region during for 4 years.
In 2003, Eric managed for three years the French subsidiary at Critical Path, a Mobile messaging solutions software provider.
Eric holds a degree in IT engineering as well as an Executive MBA from HEC.

Chief Operating Officer Josep Mitjà is in charge of Openbravo's Product Strategy and Business Development unit. Among many activities in Josep’s wide range of responsibilities, he leads the definition and execution of the product strategy and marketing approach, drives business development activities, builds corporate alliances and is in charge of defining the international growth model, Openbravo’s web presence, as well as Openbravo’s marketing and communication initiatives and IT & Systems department. Lastly, Josep is also an Openbravo Board member and a Board member of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), which Openbravo co-founded. Prior to joining Openbravo, Josep was a principal with DiamondCluster International (now Oliver Wyman), where he worked in more than 10 countries across three continents advising senior executives in the high tech industry. Josep holds an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, and from MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Previously he graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

Yves de Montcheuil is the Vice President of Marketing at Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration.  He has over 15 years of product management and product marketing experience with various US and European software companies, including Sunopsis, Empirix, Cyrano and SDP/Sybase.  Yves holds a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supelec in France; he has presented at numerous industry events and conferences and has authored several published articles.

For the final 20-30 minutes of the session, the panel will take questions from the audience. 

Cocktail-Lunch and networking