Symbian Foundation adds Larry Berkin and Dietmar Tallroth

Today the Symbian Foundation has announced two key additions to its management team: Larry Berkin, formerly a VP at ACCESS, who will head Symbian's US office and act as Head of Alliance Management and Dietmar Tallroth, formerly Director of Legal for Nokia's Open Source and Java, who will serve as Symbian's General Counsel. The Symbian Foundation continues to recruit staff as it grows towards it goal of around 200 employees by the end of 2009.

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.

Published by Rafe Blandford at 14:08 UTC, June 1st

Categories: Developer, Industry
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition, MOAP, S60 5th Edition

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