Rod Johnson is the General Manager of the SpringSource product division. Previously Rod served as CEO of SpringSource since the company's inception and has more than 12 years of technology and management experience.

Rod conceived of and initiated the development of Spring. The Spring Portfolio of open source projects was based on the code published with Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002). This book was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE and the sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development.

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a thought leader on open source, as well as a popular speaker at conferences and symposia around the world. Rod founded SpringSource and continues to be actively involved in guiding the direction of Spring.

Rod has specialized in server-side Java since 1996 across a wide range of industries. Rod’s hands-on experience has led him to see problems from a client's perspective as well as a technology perspective, and has driven his influential criticism of bloated, inefficient, orthodox approaches to J2EE architecture.

Rod is a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC).  EC members guide the evolution of the Java technologies by approving and voting on all technology proposals. They are also responsible for defining the JCP's rules of governance and the legal agreement between members and the organization.

Rod holds a BA with Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics and Musicology as well as a Phd from the University of Sydney.

Adrian Colyer is the CTO of SpringSource and has more than a dozen years of experience leading teams in Java and enterprise middleware.

Adrian Colyer is the leader of the AspectJ open source project and a well-known industry expert on the topic of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). He is a co-author of the book "Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming in Eclipse with AspectJ and AJDT," and has also published numerous book chapters, articles and published papers. His short essay, "AOP without the buzzwords" has been described as "the best explanation of AOP, ever."

In 2004, Adrian was recognized as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the development and adoption of aspect-oriented programming in industry.

Adrian founded the AspectJ Development Tools project (AJDT) on Eclipse.org in 2003, a project that continues to lead the world in providing IDE support for AOP. As leader of the AspectJ project, Adrian has overseen several releases of the compiler and designed and implemented many of the AspectJ 5 language extensions to support Java 5 features.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM. Whilst there he oversaw the introduction of aspect-oriented programming to many IBM development teams.

Adrian holds a BSc, Computer Science from University of Southampton.

Javier Soltero is the SpringSource product division Datacenter Architect.

Previously, Javier was the co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, which SpringSource acquired in May 2009.   Prior to co-founding Hyperic, he was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager (CAM)—now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ.

Prior to Covalent, Soltero was a senior software engineer at Backflip, where he met Hyperic co-founders Charles Lee and Doug MacEachern. At Backflip, he was actively involved in the design, implementation, and operational aspects of the site.

Soltero also held senior engineering positions at Netscape, where he participated in the design development of e-commerce and Internet infrastructure suites. Over the last 10 years, Soltero has been actively involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor to projects like JBoss and Apache Tomcat.

Soltero is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his BS in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark Brewer is Senior Vice President and GM of Enterprise Delivery at SpringSource. Brewer is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience within the technology and software industry. Mark was previously CEO of Covalent Technologies, which SpringSource acquired in early 2008.  Mark joined Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of support and services for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) open source projects, in late 2001 as Vice President of Field Operations and took over as CEO in early 2004. In this position, Mark was responsible for the day-to-day management of the company, including overseeing worldwide sales, engineering, marketing and business development initiatives.

Prior to Covalent, Mark served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development for Banter Technologies where he built successful business models for selling eCRM solutions to large financial institutions and enabling technologies to CRM software vendors.

Previously, Mark was Vice President of Sales at Andromedia helping to define and build the sales model and partner strategies for the leading provider of enterprise web site analysis and personalization solutions provider. Mark was instrumental in the successful merger between Andromedia and Macromedia (now Adobe) in late 1999.

Before Andromedia, Mark held a variety of sales management and executive positions with Powersoft (PWRS), which was acquired by Sybase (SYBS) in 1995, during the company's rapid growth phase in the early and mid 1990s.

Mark holds a B.S. in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Computer Science from Western Washington University.

Shaun Connolly is Vice President of Product Management at SpringSource and is responsible for overall product strategy, definition and promotion of SpringSource products. Shaun has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a track record of building early stage and midsize software companies into successful market leaders.

Shaun was previously Vice President of Product Management responsible for the JBoss Enterprise Middleware line of products at Red Hat and JBoss. Prior to JBoss/Red Hat, Shaun served in Vice President and Director level Product Management and Product Development positions at Princeton Softech, Hewlett-Packard, Bluestone Software, and Primavera Systems.

Shaun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

Peter Cooper-Ellis is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Management for SpringSource with more than 25 years of experience managing enterprise software product development teams including transaction processing systems, messaging systems, Web application servers, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), customer support and security products.

Prior to SpringSource, Peter served as Executive Vice President and General Manager for the WebLogic Server product line at BEA Systems, Inc. (acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008). While at BEA, he was recognized for growing the WebLogic Server Unit business from its inception to the creation of BEA’s flagship product, BEA WebLogic Server, the world’s leading Java application server.

Besides being a driving force behind the WebLogic Application Server since 1999, Peter had management responsibility for more than a dozen acquisitions for BEA and was influential in product strategy for a variety of BEA’s industry-leading Java products. Peter was also responsible for setting up offshore development labs for BEA in India and China.

Before joining BEA, Peter spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he managed the transaction processing engineering team, and six years at National Semiconductor as a software development engineer.

Peter is a member of the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors. The OSGi Alliance is a worldwide consortium of technology innovators that advances a proven and mature process to assure interoperability of applications and services based on its OSGi component integration platform.

Peter holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Herb Cunitz is Vice President of Worldwide Sales for SpringSource.  Herb brings more than 20 years of experience building sales and sales management teams for enterprise software companies.

Herb has brought two enterprise software companies through IPOs and both of these companies were within the top 15 IPO’s of their respective years.  Most recently, Herb was SVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations for Savvion where he successfully grew the bookings to a $25M run rate.  Previously, Herb was VP of Worldwide Sales for Bang Networks and VP of Sales for Vitria Technology. While at Vitria, Herb grew the sales organization from $0 to more than $80M per year in revenue.

Prior to Vitria Technology, Herb was Vice President for Sales at Viasoft Corporation. Herb also spent 10 years at IBM in NY in various positions, including Account Executive, Marketing Manager and US Marketing Executive for Desktop Operating Systems.  

Herb has an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in New York.

Mitch Ferguson serves as Senior Director of Alliances for SpringSource and has over 20 years of sales and business development management experience.

Mitch has helped establish and execute global business development and channel strategies with enterprise software companies from early-stage through IPO, including Arbor Software and Vitria Technology. Mitch served as Vice President, Asia Pacific Operations, and Global Alliances at Vitria Technology and Director, Channels and Asia Pacific Business Development at Arbor Software. Previously, Mitch held executive sales and business development positions with 3VR Security, Composite Software, and Wang Laboratories.

Mitch holds an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. from the University of South Carolina.

Matt Stodolnic is Senior Director of Marketing for SpringSource. He is responsible for corporate marketing, product marketing and demand generation.   

Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing for Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, which SpringSource acquired in May 2009.

Stodolnic brings more than 15 years of marketing experience at start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies to SpringSource. He has contributed to the success of early stage technology companies in the enterprise software and Software as a Service (SaaS) industries. Before joining Hyperic, Matt spent the last seven years at cloud computing pioneer salesforce.com as vice president of interactive marketing and creative services.  As a member of salesforce.com’s management team he was responsible for online demand generation, community, global Web strategy, advertising, and branding.  Prior to joining salesforce.com, Stodolnic was vice president of product marketing and product development at Conscium Inc, a pioneer in Internet collaboration technology where he led product marketing and product development. The company was acquired by NYSE-listed Bowne & Co., Inc in 2001.

Stodolnic holds a BA in Economics from University of Colorado, Boulder.