Lauren Cooney
Lauren Cooney has ten years of experience building technical communities and strategies for enterprise software companies. Cooney joined the Information Management CTO Office in January 2007, focusing on strategy and community evangelism around Web 2.0, Info 2.0, and open source technologies and products. She is currently responsible for Info 2.0, IBM's new Web 2.0 offering. Prior to her role in Information Management, Cooney worked on Apache Geronimo in the WebSphere Group as the IBM lead for building community and programs. Before coming to IBM in 2005, she ran dev2dev and led developer marketing and community at BEA Systems Inc., where she started the BEA dev2dev User Group Program, Technical Evangelist program, spearheaded the O'Reilly/dev2dev partnership and led several other successful community and technical initiatives. Prior to BEA, she was an investment analyst at The Angels Forum venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, focused on enterprise software investments.