Mark Hinkle, Zenoss

Mark Hinkle has been the force behind Zenoss' remarkable community adoption and involvement, growing community membership to over 55,000 members since joining the company in 2006. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006)

Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.

Mark blogs at www.socializedsoftware.com and can be found on Twitter @mrhinkle.