Author Biography

Hallé n, Jacob

 

 

Biographical Notes

Jacob Hallén is President of Strakt Holdings Inc and CTO of its Swedish subsidiary AB Strakt (http://www.strakt.com), a company developing workflow software with an OpenSource focus. He is the Chairman and a founder of The Python Business Forum (http://www.python-in-business.org). He has recently given talks on OpenSource Business Models at the first EuroPython conference (presentations available at http://www.europython.org). Before founding the Strakt Group he worked for 3 years as technical advisor to the Royal Library, the National Library of Sweden. Earlier merits include founding several different companies, teaching in both the university world and the corporate one. He has also served on two tours of duty with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces.