Adam Retter is the Director of Evolved Binary. He was a core contributor to the Open Source eXist-db Native XML Database for 20 years, he was also an invited expert to the W3C XQuery Working Group and helped standardise XQuery 1.0, 3.0, and 3.1. Adam founded the EXQuery project, and developed the RESTXQ framework for XQuery. Recently, Evolved Binary have released Elemental (forked from eXist-db) to modernise and advance the state-of-the-art in Native XML Databases.