Miguel de Icaza

Miguel has directed the Mono project since its creation in 2001 and led the launches of Mono's releases at Novell. Before Mono he co-founded the GNOME project in 1997 and in 1999 he co-founded Ximian with Nat. He has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award in 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.