Kaj Arnö
MariaDB Foundation
CEO
Kaj Arnö is CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. He is a software industry generalist, having served as VP Professional Services, VP
Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB prior to the acquisition by Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Kaj served
as MySQL Ambassador to Sun and Sun VP of Database Community. Initiator of Projekt Fredrika, about Swedish Finland on
Wikipedia. Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland). Kaj is a co-founder of MariaDB
Corporation Ab, and served on its Executive Team in several positions, most recently Chief Evangelist. Kaj lives and works in
Munich, Germany, and during summer often in Nagu, Finland. He is a citizen of both countries. Kaj holds a M.Sc. (Eng.) from
Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and an MBA from Hanken School of Economics. He tweets @kajarno.