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Mårten Gustaf Mickos
Mårten G Mickos
Born	1962 Espoo, Finland
Occupation	CEO at HackerOne

Mårten Gustaf Mickos (born November 6, 1962 in Espoo, Finland) is the current CEO of HackerOne, a security vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform.^[1]

He is the former senior vice president and general manager of the Cloud business for Hewlett-Packard, and former CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. He was also a member of the board of directors of Nokia.^[2]

Mårten Mickos has a master's degree in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, and is a frequent speaker and blogger on topics of leadership, open source business models and cloud computing.

In March 2010, Mårten was appointed CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the Eucalyptus software for cloud computing on computer clusters.^[3]

From 2009 to 2010 Mickos was the Entrepreneur In Residence of venture capital firm Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures.^[4]

Mickos was chief executive officer (CEO) of MySQL AB from January 2001 to February 2008, when Sun Microsystems bought MySQL Inc and MySQL AB. He served as senior vice president of the database group at Sun Microsystems until March 2009.^[5]

He has previously been a member of the board of Electrosonic (2009-2012), Mozilla Messaging (2008-2011) and RightScale (2009-2010).^[6]

In 2009, Marten participated as an expert witness for the European Commission when they were looking at the Oracle-MySQL merger through antitrust perspectives.^[7]

Mårten was a co-founder and CEO of MatchON Sports Ltd. Previously, he was CEO of Sonera subsidiary Intellitel Communications Inc, and has held sales and marketing positions at Solid Information Technology Ltd and other software companies.^[8]

Marten Mickos is also an angel investor in Enterprise 2.0 start-up Tradeshift.^[9]

Mickos was honored with awards the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006"^[10] and the Nokia Foundation Award.^[11]

In Chinese, Mårten uses the name 马腾.米克思.

• Mårten Mickos on Twitter
• Mårten Mickos' Blog
• Mårten Mickos on Quora
• Mårten Mickos on Yabbly
• Open for business: Building successful commerce around open source - Mårten Mickos' talk at the PARC Forum.
• Mårten Mickos on effective teams (Slides, Video)
• Video: Mårten Mickos, ex-CEO of MySQL on Oracle, Open Source Startups & Lessons of MySQL
• Video: Shoot for the stars! - Mårten talks about the role of failure and long-term perspective at the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
• Video: Entrepreneurial talk at Stanford: Believe in something bigger than yourself

• Gigaom Standardized open source products are the key to unlocking the lock-in trap
• Gigaom For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software
• On distributed teams http://productivemag.com/15/interview-with-marten-mickos
• CNN Money interview: How to manage employees who work from home http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/27/smallbusiness/employees-work-from-home/index.html
• Keynote by Mårten Mickos at O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011, "Data in the Cloud" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llO_EFQk3dM
• "Making it in America’ (by the Finn who sold MySQL for a billion dollars)": http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/23/making-it-in-america-by-the-fin-who-sold-mysql-for-a-billion-dollars/
• Interview with Mårten Mickos in BizDeans Talk - "Entrepreneur and ex-CEO of MySQL": http://www.deanstalk.net/deanstalk/2009/11/interview-with-marten-mickos-entrepreneur-and-exceo-of-mysql.html
• Interview with Mårten Mickos in Forbes Magazine - "Why Oracle Won't Kill MySQL": https://archive.is/20130123095359/http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/20/mysql-marten-mickos-technology-enterprise-tech-mysql.html
• Interview with MySQL CEO by Guy Kawasaki: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w_2.html
• Interview with MySQL CEO on Slashdot: http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/20/1325244&from=rss
• Mårten Mickos IT decision maker of the year in Finland in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20071216062647/http://www.tietoviikko.fi/doc.te?f_id=1067666
• Mårten Mickos ranked no. 9 among IT decision makers in Sweden in 2006: http://www.nyteknik.se/art/47124
• Mozilla Messaging Board of Directors: https://www.webcitation.org/68D1hHH8v?url=http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/