mal@egenix.com Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a German Python-focussed consulting company. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf. His work with and for Python started in Winter 1993/4. In 1997, he became a Python Core Developer, later on he was founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and has worked for the PSF as board member and vice-president. Marc-Andre is the author of the well-known mx Extensions, e.g. mxTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com. Today he spends most of his time consulting for companies investing in Python and managing projects heavily relying on Python and C.