Today we announced the appointment of Ben Sabrin to Vice President of Stategy and Business Development for Appcelerator. Ben’s an open source veteran, with the distinction of being the first non-founder employee at JBoss, which was acquired for $350M by RedHat (NYSE:RHAT) over a year ago. Ben took some time off in a semi-sabbatical over the past year since the acquisition and has now decided it was time to get back to work and help us build out Appcelerator.
I’ve known Ben for quite awhile. Ben and I became friend’s long before JBoss when he was at Pencom Systems. Ben helped place quite a few developers for me when I was the CTO of eHatchery. During that time, he was also one of the main guys behind the Atlanta Java Users Groups (AJUG). This is where Ben met Marc and the rest became the history of JBoss. At JBoss, Ben was very instrumental in bringing on a lot of the key core contributors such as Bela Ban, Bill Burke and Gavin King – among many others. Ben also had probably the biggest impact on growing JBoss’ revenue and helping Marc created a profitable, professional open source business model.
I’m excited to have Ben join Nolan and I and the rest of the team at Appcelerator. He’ll be a tremendous asset to the team. Welcome aboard.
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