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Mekki MacAulay Abdelwahab
B.Eng., B.A., M.App.Sc., P.Eng
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Biography
Mekki MacAulay is the Principal of OSStrategy.org, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their competitive advantage and strategic positioning in a world embracing open source. Mekki was also the president and founder of MekTek Solutions, an IT services company based in Ottawa, ON that operated from 2002 to 2010.
Mekki holds undergraduate degrees from Carleton University in Computer Systems Engineering, and Psychology, and a Master's degree in Technology Innovation Management. He is currently working on a PhD in Strategic Management at the Schulich School of business. His research interests focus on open source adoption; open source ecosystem value creation, extraction, and keystone company positioning; and quantifying the value of passive participation in open source projects.
More generally, Mekki is interested in business models that use intellectual property laws in a creative manner, such as those based on open source, creative commons licensing, and the like.