Michael Nash is the author of "Java Frameworks & Components: Accelerate Your Web Application Development" (Cambridge University Press) and lead developer of the Keel framework. He was also the creator and lead developer of Expresso up to version 4.02. A long term industry veteran, he has spent many of his years servicing large international corporations with financial software. He has lived in the Bahamas for the past several years, and has enjoyed an excellent reputation as a very productive addition to the open source community.