ABOUT THE AUTHORS

DAVID CARUANA is Chief Architect and a founding engineer of Alfresco Software, where he is responsible for overall product architecture and design, and has developed many of the core capabilities of Alfresco, such as content modeling, workflow, Web scripts, and CMIS. With over 15 years of experience in the ECM industry, David has previously led product development at Documentum, where he created Web Development Kit, and Oracle, where he developed several content repositories. David is a member of the JSR 283 (Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0) Expert Group and the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee. He is also active on the Spring Surf and Apache Chemistry open source projects.

JOHN NEWTON, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, has spent the last 25 years building information management software. In 1990, he co-founded Documentum, the enterprise content management company acquired by EMC, with Howard Shao. John started his career in databases as one of the original engineers at Ingres, the relational database company, and ultimately ran the database development group. John was also one of the first entrepreneurs in residence in Europe at Benchmark Capital. In addition to the Alfresco board, John serves on the board of AIIM, the ECM industry group, and the London International Festival of Theatre. John graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at ...

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