Eero Teerikorpi is the founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Continuent, a leading provider of solutions for business-critical applications using MySQL databases, including cluster management, data replication, and connectivity. Eero's career, spanning more than 30 years, includes founding seven technology companies and playing a significant role in the development and growth of MySQL, the second largest open-source relational database management system in the world, since day one, from the early 2000s.