Shattlvort Mark (Mark Richard Shuttleworth)

Shattlvort Mark (Mark Richard Shuttleworth)

Mark Richard Shuttleworth is the founder of the company Canonical developing Linux- a distribution kit Ubuntu, and also HBD Venture Capital (2000), Shuttleworth Foundation (2001) and also Ubuntu Foundation (2005). Lives in London (Great Britain). Has citizenship of the Republic of South Africa and the British citizenship.

Biography

Mark Shuttleworth was born in the city of Uelkam (Republic of South Africa) on September 18, 1973. Graduated from diocesan school and the university of Cape Town as the bachelor of economic sciences in the field of finance and information systems.

In the 1990s took active part in development of the GNU/Linux Debian distribution kit. In the 1995th founded the Thawte company specializing in digital certificates and Internet security, and four years later sold it for $575 million VeriSign company.

Later Mark heads staff of Ubuntu developers and and gives support to the KDE environment.

Mark Shatlvort before flight in space

On April 25, 2002 Mark as the space tourist departed at the ISS together with crew of the Russian spaceship "Union of TM-34". It returned to Earth on May 5, having become the world's second space tourist. Mark Shuttleworth paid $20 million for the flight. Before flight in space Mark Shuttleworth completed an annual course of training and spent 7 months in the star city to Shchyolkovo.

To make the list of potential employees of the project Ubuntu, Shattlvort spent six months for archives of mailing of e-mail Debian during the travel to Antarctica on the Captain Khlebnikov ice breaker at the beginning of 2004.

In March, 2004 he created Canonical Ltd. for promoting and commercial support of projects of the open source.

In December, 2009 Shattlvort resigned as the CEO of Canonical company, on purpose closely to be engaged in design of Ubuntu and quality control in a distribution kit, without being distracted at the same time by the management of Canonical. His position was held by Jane Zilber who was to this COO Canonical.

On March 27, 2013 the Forbes magazine recognized Mark Shuttleworth by the personality who stirred up the computer industry in 2013.

Interests

For the benefit of Shattlvort appear: travel, Russian baths, physics and string theory, Cesaria Evora and Frank Sinatra. Mark does not love public statements, to run also gray wet winter.