Simon Poole, 58,

from Melbourne Australia,. After studying
physics at Zürich University, he worked for a short period of time for the
Swiss university computer network SWITCH and then moved on to
co-found  what was to become the first commercial ISP in Switzerland and
one of the first in Europe in the early 90s. He lives outside of Zürich in
Switzerland.

Simon is a moderately active OpenStreetMap contributor, is the current chair
of the OpenStreetMap Foundation licence working group, was the chairman of
the OSMF in the years 2013 and 2014, and has been the president of the Swiss
OpenStreetMap Association since 2012.

Trivia: Simon wrote the most popular VT100 terminal emulator for the Atari
ST in the 80s.