Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö is the former VP of the MySQL Community at MySQL AB

MySQL AB

MySQL AB was a software company. MySQL AB is the creator of MySQL, a relational database management system, as well as related products such as MySQL Cluster...

, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. He joined MySQL AB as VP of Training in May 2001 and subsequently served in roles as VP Consulting, VP Services, VP Engineering and VP Community Relations till February 2008, when Sun bought MySQL AB

MySQL AB

MySQL AB was a software company. MySQL AB is the creator of MySQL, a relational database management system, as well as related products such as MySQL Cluster...

. He served as VP of the MySQL Community in the Database Group at Sun Microsystems until June 2010, when the German subsidiary of Sun was integrated into Oracle. In October, he announced his retirement from Oracle. He is currently EVP Products at SkySQL.

Prior to joining MySQL AB, Kaj was an entrepreneur and the main owner of Polycon Ab where he served as CEO from 1987 to 2001. Arnö studied physics at the Helsinki University of Technology

Helsinki University of Technology

Aalto University School of Science and Technology , was the temporary name for Helsinki University of Technology during the process of forming the Aalto University...

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Arnö was the main spokesperson towards the MySQL community from 2005 onwards, as well as a frequent speaker at MySQL events.

Other work

A passionate runner, Arnö has condensed his philosophy of running into what he labels as Runnism, the Religion of Running.