Yannick Pellet is the Vice President of the Advanced Software Platform group at Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley). Prior to Samsung, Yannick worked for Hewlett-Packard where he headed the software development function and developer relations for webOS and later on the OpenWebOS open source project. Earlier, he was member of the original group of engineers that designed and implemented Maemo – one of the first Linux-based open source based mobile platform. He also participated in the creation of MeeGo (predecessor of Tizen), and was a member of the Nokia MeeGo leadership team. He delivered over half a dozen mobile products among which the critically acclaimed Linux based N9 and N900.