Juergen Geck joined SUSE in 1997 and served since early 2000 as Vice President, Technology Partners. As Chief Technology Officer for SUSE LINUX at Novell, Mr. Geck is responsible for aligning and communicating the SUSE LINUX technology strategy for Novell. Mr. Geck helped design SUSE's flagship product, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and its maintenance model, enabling the first enterprise Linux offering in the market. He was instrumental in the conception of Novell's YaST open source project, an open source systems management project that for the first time provides a platform on which to tie together disparate systems using current systems management tools.