Zak Greant owns a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates. The Foo team helps organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. They are a tiny shop, but have great clients (like eZ Systems, Canonical, the Mozilla Foundation & Navarik.) The Net has been a part of his daily life for more than a decade now - most of his adult life, in fact. After dropping out of high school, then cooking school, the Net was a gateway to tremendous opportunity and wonder. Like all tools, it wasnt the Net that mattered so much - instead it was what the Net let people do that was the true alchemy. He has been an active participant in many Free Software/Open Source communities, from PHP to MySQL to volunteering with the Free Software Foundations License Compliance Lab.