Mårten Mickos
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MÃ¥rten Gustaf Mickos (born November 6, 1962 in
Espoo,
Finland) was chief executive officer (
CEO) of
MySQL AB. He served as chief executive officer from January 2001 to February 2008, when Sun bought MySQL AB. He served as senior vice president of the database group at Sun Microsystems until February 2009.
(1) In February 2008 he was announced as member of the board of
Mozilla Messaging, in May 2009, he also joined the board of directors at
RightScale.
(2) In September 2009
venture capital firm
Benchmark Capital hired Mickos as their
Entrepreneur In Residence.
(3)In March 2010, MÃ¥rten was named CEO of
Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the
Eucalyptus open-source infrastructure for the implementation of
cloud computing on computer clusters.
(4)MÃ¥rten also was a co-founder and CEO of MatchON Sports Ltd. Previously, he was CEO of
Sonera subsidiary Intellitel Communications Inc, and has held sales and marketing positions at
Solid Information Technology Ltd and other growth-oriented software companies.
(5)Mickos has a Master's degree in Engineering from
Helsinki University of Technology in
Finland and has been rewarded with awards like the
Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006"
(6)and the
Nokia Foundation Award.
(7) See also
References
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In the media
- Interview with MÃ¥rten Mickos in BizDeans Talk - "Entrepreneur and ex-CEO of MySQL":weblink
- Interview with MÃ¥rten Mickos in Forbes Magazine - "Why Oracle Won't Kill MySQL":weblink
- Interview with MySQL CEO by Guy Kawasaki:weblink
- Interview with Mårten Mickos in Forbes Magazine – "Oracle’s New Enemy":weblink
- Interview with MySQL CEO on Slashdot:weblink
- MÃ¥rten Mickos IT decision maker of the year in Finland in 2006:weblink
- MÃ¥rten Mickos ranked no. 9 among IT decision makers in Sweden in 2006:weblink
- Mozilla Messaging Board of Directors:weblink
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