Alexandre Lefebvre has been working at France Telecom Orange Labs R&D for about 10 years. His technical background is in deductive databases, and more generally persistance. He is now working in R&D in the middleware field, with a focus on Cloud, working hand in hand with France Telecom's Information Technology division. He has been involved in OW2 from its infancy, and is currently CTO of the OW2 consortium.
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