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Phil Odence is responsible for expanding Black Duck’s reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships in the multi-source development ecosystem. He is in charge of building the company’s growing network of international resellers and launched Black Duck’s legal certification program. A frequent speaker at open source industry events, Phil chairs the Linux Foundation’s Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) working group and is a blogger for NetworkWorld http://www.networkworld.com/community/odence.
He came to Black Duck from Empirix where he served as Vice President of Business Development and in other business management positions. Prior to Empirix, Phil was a partner and ran consulting at High Performance Systems, a startup computer simulation modeling firm. He began his career with Teradyne’s electronic design and test automation group in product, sales and marketing management roles. He has an AB in Engineering Science and an MS in System Simulation from Dartmouth College.
When not at work, Phil can be found running barefoot, which he documents in his entertaining Barefoot? Phil blog.