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He originated Tiny ERP, now OpenERP, and is the director of two companies including Tiny sprl, the editor of OpenERP. In three years he has grown the Tiny group from one to sixty-five employees without loans or external fund-raising, and while making a profit.
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He has also developed several large scale projects, such as Auction-in-Europe.com, which become the leader in the art market in Belgium. Even today people sell more art works there than on ebay.be.
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He is also the founder of the LUG (Linux User Group) of Louvain-la-Neuve, and of several free projects like OpenReport, OpenStuff and Tiny Report. Educated as a civil engineer (polytechnic), he has won several IT prizes in Europe such as Wired and l'Inscene.
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A fierce defender of free software in the enterprise, he is in constant demand as a conference speaker and he is the author of numerous articles dealing with free software in the management of the enterprise.
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Follow Fabien on his blog http://fptiny.blogspot.com/ or on twitter fpopenerp.
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**Geoff Gardiner**
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Geoff has held posts as director of services and of IT systems for international companies and in manufacturing. He was Senior Industrial Research Fellow at Cambridge University's Institute for Manufacturing where he focused on innovation processes.
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He founded Seath Solutions Ltd (http://www.seathsolutions.com/) to provide services in the use of Open Source software, particularly OpenERP, for business management.
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Author of articles and books focusing on the processes and technology of innovation, Geoff is also an active contributor to the OpenERP project. He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and an MA in Engineering and Electrical Sciences from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and of the Society of Authors.
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Having observed, suffered, and led process implementation projects in various organizations, he has many thoughts to share on the successful adoption of an effective management automation tool.
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