Stephen brings 23+ years of experience in the IT industry having developed real-time embedded software, founding developer programs in mid 90’s, managing 2 open source communities, and building global alliance and licensing programs. Prior to joining Ericsson, Stephen was the CMO of RackN, an open source provisioning startup. He also delivered global marketing programs for cloud solutions at HPE/HP and Dell and managed the OpenStack and the Xen.org open source communities at Rackspace and Citrix Systems. Mr. Spector is a native Buckeye living in Boise. He received a Bachelors of Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, a Masters of Computer Science from University of Florida, and a Masters of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University. Follow at @SpectorID