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Andi Gutmans is CEO and co-founder of Zend, the PHP Company. In this role he leads Zend’s focus on helping companies with rapid application development and delivery for web and mobile apps. Since founding Zend, Andi has consistently championed the benefits of openness, standardization and best practices among enterprise IT leaders and the developer community. He has been a key contributor to PHP since 1997, when he and Zend co-founder and CTO Zeev Suraski developed the foundation for PHP 3, followed by the Zend Engine, which powers PHP 4 and PHP 5. Today, more than one-third of the Web runs on PHP, which is used by close to five million developers worldwide. Under Gutmans’ leadership, Zend has partnered with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies to advance PHP adoption by enterprises worldwide.
Gutmans was recognized by InternetNews.com as one of the top 10 most visionary tech CEOs in 2010, he was chosen by Mashable as one of the “10 founding fathers of the Web”, and he was named one of Computerworld’s “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40.” He is a recognized author and frequent speaker on technology and business issues at global industry conferences. Mr. Gutmans received his B.S. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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