David “Lefty” Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Co., Ltd., working principally on open source strategy and community relations, and representing ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives. Lefty is responsible for open source licensing compliance practices within ACCESS, and is the author of internal “open source best practices” curriculum for the company.

Lefty is well-known in the open source community and is a frequent presenter and panelist at open source-related conferences, and has spoken this year at the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software’s Verso Business Series, FOSTEL (the Free and Open Source Telephony Conference), the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the GNOME Users’ and Developers’ European Conference and a variety of other prestigious open source venues. He was the keynote speaker at this year’s Northwest Technical Conference for Undergraduates at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lefty’s paper on the Hiker Project was published in this year’s “Proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium”.