Patrick Lightbody

Chairman of OpenSymphony Group, Inc.

Patrick is the founder and CEO of Autoriginate, the creators of HostedQA. Patrick is also the CEO and Chairman of OpenSymphony Group, Inc, a non-profit open source group dedicated to the creation of high quality, open source Java-based components. Most recently, Patrick oversaw a rare occurrence in the open source world: a merger of two competing projects, OpenSymphony WebWork and Apache Struts. He is also the founder of OpenQA, an open source group dedicated to bringing quality open source testing tools to the market. Patrick is a published author and an established leader in the Enterprise Java community.