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Mårten Mickos

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Mickos became CEO of MySQL AB in January 2001, and served in this role until February 2008. During this time, he became a voice for the value of, and business model behind, commercial open source. He oversaw that settlement with NuSphere Corp over a dispute regarding the use of MySQL AB's trademarks
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In 2009, Mickos participated as an expert witness for the European Commission when they were examining the Oracle-MySQL merger because of their concern over an antitrust issue.
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subsidiary Intellitel Communications Inc, and held sales and marketing positions at Solid Information Technology Ltd and other software companies.
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Mickos and his wife married in 1988. They raised three children, now adults, in Scandinavia and California. The couple divorced in 2015.
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acquired Eucalyptus in September, 2014, they appointed Mickos SVP and GM of HP's Cloud Business Unit. Mickos left HP in October 2015.
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Mickos moved from Finland to Los Altos Hills, CA in 2003 and currently resides in San Francisco.
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In March 2010, Mickos was appointed CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the
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Mickos was a co-founder and CEO of MatchON Sports Ltd. Prior to this, he was CEO of
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In November 2015, Mickos became CEO of the bug bounty platform company HackerOne.
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Mickos studied technical physics at Helsinki University of Technology (now called
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Mickos is the third born of four siblings, and was raised in the town of
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Nordic Entrepreneur of the Year prize by Silicon Vikings in 2012
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from 2012 to 2015. He also served on the boards of Electrosonic,
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Mickos has received the following awards and recognition:
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Espoo
Finland
Helsinki University of Technology
CEO
HackerOne
Espoo
Finland
CEO
HackerOne
bug bounty
chief executive officer
MySQL AB
Sun Microsystems
MySQL AB
Kauniainen
Helsinki
Jakobstad
Aalto University
Polycon Ab
Sonera
GNU General Public License
Entrepreneur In Residence
venture capital
Benchmark Capital
Index Ventures
Eucalyptus
cloud computing
computer clusters
Hewlett-Packard

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