James Governor is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy. He advises enterprises, early stage startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. He is particularly proud to have open source organisations such as the ASF and the Eclipse Foundation as clients. James is co-author of the O'Reilly book Web 2.0 Design Patterns: what architects and entrepreneurs need to know.

RedMonk makes extensive of social media tools in its business operations - James, aka @monkchips, has more than 11k followers on twitter. Chairman of SAP's external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting for 2009 he led the creation of the Greenmonk sustainability