Scott McNeil is Executive Director of the Free Standards Group. Mr. McNeil was responsible for the creation and management of the LSB DBsig, the first Linux Standards Base special interest group, which focused on the needs of major database companies and resulted in the creation of the Linux Development Platform Specification, LDPS. Actively involved in Linux and Open Source for over six years and in the LSB/Free Standards Group since its inception in 1998, Scott McNeil has also held management positions at companies such as VA Linux and SuSE.