Gordon Kruberg & Craig Hughes, Gumstix

Gumstix enters its fourth year of business in 2007 with more than 5,000 customers in 60+ countries creating projects and devices in a huge array of application areas. To meet customer demands, the company continues to focus on leading hardware development to support the outstanding Gumstix Software Development Kit and buildroot environment.

Exciting new answers for customers wanting to go "to the next level" lie just around the corner with Gumstix. Founder Dr. W. Gordon Kruberg and CTO Craig Hughes will present the company and what's ahead.

Gordon Kruberg is the Gumstix founder, CEO and President. He manages the overall vision of the company, day to day operations and product development. Before following his passion for robotics, Gordon founded, financed, and played operating and strategic executive roles in over 30 US-based companies, including Deersoft (acquired by Network Associates in Dec. 2002), IntegriNautics, HopeLink, and Schoolpop. His background includes managing investments in software, biotechnology and medical high-technology startups. He has also implemented information systems, consulted on research protocol development and emerging medical technology. Gordon holds an A.B. degree in Human Biology, a M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an M.D.degree from Northwestern University.

Craig Hughes is the Chief Technology Officer of Gumstix. As Gumstix technology expert, Craig leads the team in all technology decisions critical to running the organization. Craig brings 10 years of Internet software development experience to Gumstix, as well as a background in successfully creating software companies. He previously started Deersoft with Gordon, leading it through its acquisition by Network Associates in 2002, and also had success before that, having created Panop.com and helped lead it through its acquisition by Broadbase (now Kana) in 2000. Craig is also active in open source development, most notably with his involvement in the SpamAssassin project, on which Deersoft was based. Outside of the technology arena, Craig is also a non-executive director of Cygnet Healthcare in the UK.

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