Henrik Stahl is vice president of Product Management at Oracle, and oversees planning and strategy for the Java Platform, tasked with moving Java forward in a way that benefits the overall Java community as well as Oracle and its customers and partners.

Henrik joined Oracle as part of the BEA acquisition; at BEA he served in a similar position with responsibility for the JRockit family of products, which sums up to about 10 years working with JVM and Java strategy and development. Prior to BEA, Henrik has, among other things, been co-founder and CTO of Swedish consultancy Omegapoint AB - the lead developer of the Swedish BankID service for issuing digital IDs to Swedish citizens and in general with IT security, system architecture and development, network engineering, and support.

Henrik holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He lives with his family in California and spends his spare time doing random sports, gardening, and playing flamenco guitar.