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Eric provides technical leadership for the company’s data services strategy and product development efforts. Considered one of the world’s foremost experts on data access, Eric serves on several international standardization committees including JSR 317 (JPA2) and JSR 235 (SDO 3 for Java) within the Java Community Process (JCP) and is also an active member of the OASIS and Open SOA consortiums contributing to the Service Data Objects (SDO 1, 2 and 3) and Data Access Service (DAS) specifications. Prior to joining DataDirect Technologies, Eric co-founded and served as chief technology officer at Xcalia (acquired by DataDirect in 2008), a pioneer in the burgeoning data services market dedicated to solving the business problem surrounding the gap between a sophisticated object oriented development approach and a simple database structure. Prior to co-founding Xcalia, Eric served as the technical director at ODBMS vendor Versant. There he was responsible for managing the pre-sales, support, consulting and training technical teams in South EMEA where he worked with marquee clients including France Telecom, Alcatel, Nortel, Lucent and BNP Paribas. Earlier in his career, Eric steered his own company, Allware Concept, a high-level consulting company focusing on object-oriented programming, relational databases, Corba, rich-user interfaces and object-oriented design and analysis which was later acquired by the business intelligence consulting company, Business & Decision. Eric holds a Master of Science in computer science specializing in operating systems, computer graphics algorithms and artificial intelligence and a doctorate in computer science specializing in distributed artificial intelligence from Paris 6th University. | 