Mike Milinkovich


Mike Milinkovich is the first, and still current Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation Inc., a member-based, not-for-profit, corporation supporting the Eclipse open source community and its commercial ecosystem.
Milinkovich has been involved in the software industry for over thirty years in a variety of leadership roles, including software engineering, product management, business development, and IP licensing.

Education

Milinkovich earned his Masters of Science degree in Information and Systems Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Career

Milinkovich began his career in 1983, at Bell Northern Research in the corporate financial analysis group. After completing his Masters, he returned to BNR as a member of scientific staff in 1987.
He joined Object Technology International as a software engineer, in 1988, and in February 1995, became the Vice President of Technology Alliances.  
In 1996, following the acquisition of OTI by IBM, he assumed the role of Strategy Manager for IBM’s VisualAge Integrated Development Environment. VisualAge Micro Edition, which supported the development of embedded Java applications and cross-system development, was a re-implementation of the IDE in Java. This version of VisualAge was the predecessor of the Eclipse IDE.
In 1999, Milinkovich left IBM and became Vice President of Business Development for . The Object People was acquired by Webgain in 2000, and following this acquisition, he transitioned into the role of Vice President of World Wide Services. In 2002, Milinkovich assumed the role of Vice President of Technical Services for Oracle.
In 2004, Milinkovich was appointed to the Executive Director role at the Eclipse Foundation.
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