Acquia is a ground-breaking open source software company providing value-added products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. The people of Acquia believe that the open source development approach and social publishing technology have the power to connect people and unleash their collective creative potential in order to achieve great things.

Commercial open source vendor

Dries Buytaert Co-founder and Benevolent Dictator

Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. He serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. A native of Belgium, Dries holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University.

Jay Batson Co-founder, Company Craftsman

Acquia is the second technology company Jay has (co-)founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, which was acquired by Bluesocket in 2007.) Jay's work passion is to build great companies that build things that users are passionately happy with. When not obsessing about products, he builds miles on his custom Serotta, is a rabid pro cycling fan (getting his news at VeloNews - a Drupal site!), and spends time under the headphones listening to and spinning all styles of house and trance music.

Jeff Whatcott Communicator in Chief

Jeff joined Acquia from Adobe, where he managed marketing, product management, and evangelism for several platform and infrastructure products. He is a father of four, a passionate amateur photographer, and an armchair economist. Jeff grew up in Idaho and studied economics and earned his MBA at Brigham Young University.