Alexis Richardson is a co-founder of CohesiveFT, developers of Elastic Server On Demand (ESOD) and sponsors of RabbitMQ AMQP. ESOD delivers production-line assembly of custom application stacks for any virtual format and the cloud.

Previously he was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specialising in high throughput caching and transaction management products. A past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, Alexis most recently worked on various high performance front office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed income derivatives at Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University.

Cleve Gibbon is CTO for Cognifide where he works with clients to turn their creative visions and content strategy into a technical and tangible reality. Prior to this, Cleve spent over decade exclusively in the Finance Sector building trading systems and working with the top-tier banks in delivering reliable, high available, transactional applications in a service-oriented manner.

Cleve actively speaks out on issues around people, process and products on his blog. And now, after a few years in the content management space, Cleve is keen to see how the industry can bring content to the masses

Cleve has a PhD in Object-Oriented Design Heuristics from the University of Nottingham. He regularly speaks at community events and writes articles for on-line technology-focused sites.