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Matt has spent the past 10 years using customer experience design and brand strategy to help businesses show up in ways that make people care. He leads engagements that set the stage for creating great brands and products and works with design teams to execute strategy. Matt has worked with executives at Disney, Target, Apple, Gap, Coca-Cola, L.L. Bean, Cingular, DirecTV, Motorola, HP, Autodesk, Kohler, Shangri-La, and Four Seasons. Prior to Ammunition, he was President of MetaDesign and a Strategist at frog design leading design and innovation programs.

A native San Franciscan, Matt is a graduate of UC Berkeley where he studied sociology and architecture, and is also the namesake for Bianchi’s commuter bicycle—Rollo—the highest quality, lowest priced bicycle ever produced by the venerable Italian brand.

Gaël Duval has created Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux) in 1998, a popular Linux distribution and co-founded MandrakeSoft. Since 2007, he is the Chairman and CTO of Ulteo, an Open Source application delivery and virtualization solution for corporates.

Olivier Ezratty is a freelance digital media strategy consultant helping startups and large organizations shape their solution, ecosystem and business strategies. He is involved in many startup and innovation communities: teaching, coaching and doing startups due diligences for investors, and also working with corporations in the telecom and media industry sectors. He shares his in-depth industry analysis and creative common licenced reports on his blog "Opinions Libres" (free opinions, http://www.oezratty.net) including a Digital Economy Startup Guide (15th edition) and a thorough 240+ pages report on the Consumer Electronics Show every year since 2006.

Born in Nice in 1971, Stephan Ramoin, graduated with a Masters Degree in Marketing and Management. In 1995, he began his professional career as Sales Manager at VIVENDI UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING GROUP. At that time, he assumed the development of over 100 publishers overseas. In 2000, Stephan joined the French start-up MULTIMANIA S.A, as Partnerships Director. Once LYCOS Europe Gmbh acquired Multimania, he then contributed to the restructuring of the BU’s organization as its European Managing Director.

The combination of his experience in the field of Domain Names, his seeing the potential for the development of such an industry, and his curiosity for new challenges led him to be interested in the acquisition of Gandi in 2005. Today, thanks to his visionary leadership and strong managerial skills, he oversees the ongoing development of Gandi Group with the objective of maintaining its position as the alternative provider of domain name and Cloud Hosting services.

Sam graduated from École Centrale Paris in 2002. Since then, he has worked as a research engineer and manager, working on projects as various as video-on-demand appliances, computer security, train simulators, and embedded image processing software. He is currently an R&D engineer at DONTNDO Entertainment, working on this young French game studio's first title for HD consoles.

Sam is very active in the opensource movement, having been part of the core VLC development team in the late 90s and early 2000s, and a long-time Debian developer. He was Debian project leader from 2007 to 2008 term. He is also a contributor to various projects such as Wikipedia or GNOME.