Linux Plumbers Conf 2010

Mark Gisi is Senior Manager of Intellectual Property at Wind River Systems where he is responsible for managing IP policies, processes and IP compliance. His responsibilities include conducting due diligence IP reviews, IP training and managing the company’s open source contribution program. Mark currently oversees the IP compliance of thousands of open source packages used in dozens of product releases consisting of over 60 million lines of code (including Wind River’s embedded Linux offering). Mark served on the Eclipse IP advisory committee and currently serves on Wind River’s Corporate Open Source Review Board. Prior to Wind River, Mark founded Quality Instincts, an Intellectual Property business consulting firm and served as a Member of Technical Staff at HP Labs in the Software Technology lab. Mark holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York.