Larry Berkin began working for Symbian today, June 1st, while Dietmar Tallroth started work last month.
Symbian Foundation’s Executive Director, Lee Williams, said, “Symbian is strengthening its executive team with talented individuals, including Larry and Dietmar, both very experienced, passionate and already well-entrenched in the open source movement. Their contributions will enable the foundation to continue its efforts towards growing a thriving ecosystem, comprising a strong network of developers, partners, manufacturers and operators, around the Symbian platform.”
June 24th marks the one year anniversary of the Symbian Foundation announcement; it's remarkable the amount that has been achieved in a short time given the breadth and divserity of the stakeholders involved. Of course much works remains with the most prominent, perhaps, being the push to provide a full open source version of the Symbian Foundation Platform.
Other recent additions to the Symbian Foundation staff list include:
- Robert Ackland, formerly of Panasonic and Motorola, now Technology Manager for Application and UI layer technologies
- Paul Beusterien, formerly Director, CTO Projects at Wind River, joins as Team Lead for Tools
- Richard Collins, formerly of Orange, The Cloud, and Vodafone, joins the Connectivity Technology Management team
- Oliver Gunasekara, formerly of ARM, joins the Alliance Management team
- Daniel Rubio, formerly of Sendo, NEC and Motorola, will serve as Chief Architect and chair of the Symbian Architecture Council
- Lauren Sarno, formerly of ARM’s marketing communications group, has joined the Member Programs Team
- Bill Washburn, formerly Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, joins as Companies Community Manager
- Scott Weiss, formerly of Human Factors International and Usable Products Company, is now UI Technology Manager
There are more details in the press release on the Symbian Foundation website.