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Paul Fremantle
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder and currently CTO, Paul spearheads WSO2’s overall product strategy. His previous role at WSO2 was vice president of technical sales where he led the development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM for 9 years. At IBM, Paul created the Web Services Gateway, and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of the WebSphere Application Server. He was in the team that put the Service Integration Bus technology into WebSphere Application Server 6. He was also the key WebSphere technical sales lead for Europe, working closely with development to manage beta programmes, develop training materials, and enable first-of-a-kind J2EE projects.
Paul co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) with Sanjiva while also co-leading JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J.
Paul is currently co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee, which is charged with creating the industry standard for reliable message exchange over SOAP.
Paul's involvement in Open Source goes back to the original Apache SOAP project, where Paul donated code to enable access to Enterprise JavaBeans. He has also led IBM's involvement in the Axis C/C++ project.
Paul has published many articles, both on the Web and in traditional forms, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture, and others. Paul has published two books: Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition, and The XML Files.
Paul worked in IBM Global Services for 3 years, providing technical and business consultancy around the Internet and e-business. Before joining IBM, he was a consultant at ZS Associates, providing analytical sales forecasting consultancy to the Pharmaceutical market.
Paul has an MA in Mathematics and Philosophy and an MSc in Computation, both from Oxford University.
