Martin Lippert is a consultant and coach at akquinet agile GmbH, a company located in Germany that is focused on agile software development. He received a master degree in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg and worked as intern as part of the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC
back in '99. While he helps teams become more agile he also authors articles on rich client and server-side development with Eclipse and Eclipse runtime technology. He is involved as a committer in the Equinox
Incubator project.

Martin is a frequent conference speaker including The Spring Experience 2006 as well as EclipseCon 2007 where he gave a tutorial on Spring and OSGi.