Acquia Co-Founder Dries Buytaert Is CIO of the Year

BURLINGTON, MA, May 3, 2012 — Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced that Dries Buytaert has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech as a 2012 CIO of the Year in the Emerging Technology category. Winners of the prestigious award will be honored during an awards presentation on Tuesday, June 12, from 7:30 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. EST at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.

Recipients of the second annual award were chosen by a team of editors from the two publications. Winners were selected for exemplifying how innovation in the use of information technology and in IT strategy can bring success to an organization in driving profits or providing improved services to customers, end users or the public.

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Originally built from Buytaert’s Ghent University dorm room as a message board for his friends, Drupal has dramatically changed the pace of innovation and economics of web development by allowing site builders to assemble sites rather than code them. It has attracted a huge community of nearly 800,000 individuals in 228 countries, and today is the platform for more than 1.5 million websites worldwide. A leading figure in open source, Buytaert also serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish.

Buytaert is also co-founder and CTO of Acquia, a venture-backed software company offering products and services that enable organizations, such as Verizon, NPR, the World Economic Forum, Mercedes Benz and Twitter to leverage the power, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal. In 2011, Acquia was named to Forbes’ list of 100 Most Promising Companies.

A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a Ph.D. in…

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