After studying computer science at Southampton University, Adrian cut his teeth on traditional transaction processing, messaging and middleware before making his first foray into open source, programming languages, and compilers as the lead of the AspectJ project. His adventures in open source continued at SpringSource where he was CTO for many years. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware Adrian continued in a CTO role for the vFabric division, and helped to put together the technical thesis for the creation of Pivotal as a spin-out from VMware and EMC. He was part of the senior leadership team at Pivotal, helping to connect open source initiatives to business outcomes, and led Pivotal’s involvement in the creation of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. On leaving Pivotal, Adrian joined Accel as a Venture Partner based out of London, helping to find and grow great technology companies out of Europe and Israel.