Rafael LAGUNA

CEO of Open-Xchange

Rafael LAGUNA

CEO of Open-Xchange

Biography

A co-founder of OX, Laguna was chairman of the board until 2008 when he became CEO. Under his guidance, OX extended its product offerings into SaaS and established the indirect distribution model through Cloud service providers.

With more than 25 year’s experience, Laguna has a proven track record of success in building and growing software companies. He was crucial to the investment and the successful sale of SUSE Linux to Novell in 2004 and managed as chairman the turnaround of Bäurer AG and its subsequent takeover by Sage in 2006. Passionate about the open source movement, Laguna acts in an advisory role for openBIT e.V.