Nat Friedman, Vice President, Linux Desktop, Novell

Nat Friedman is Vice President of Linux Desktop Engineering at Novell, in charge of the vision and implementation of Novell's desktop products. Both a hacker and an entrepreneur, Nat cofounded Ximian in 1999, which was later acquired by Novell. Nat started the Beagle, Dashboard, Hula, and Better Desktop projects and today is responsible for overseeing the development of Evolution, F-Spot, Banshee, and many other projects. Nat served as chairman of the GNOME Foundation for two years.