Henry Poole is a technologist and social entrepreneur, CEO of CivicActions and Board Member of the Free Software Foundation.
That year, he served as technical editor for the book, Demystifying Multimedia.
In 2000, Poole joined as CEO of French Linux publisher MandrakeSoft.
Poole joined the board of the Free Software Foundation in December 2002.
In May 2006, Poole and the Free Software Foundation launched the anti-DRM campaign, Defective by Design.