Nelson is an admin of the TikiWiki CMS/Groupware open source software project. In 2007/08, he led the implementation of TikiWiki for Firefox Support at Mozilla. He is the President and CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., a company providing online collaboration and social media solutions based on TikiWiki and other open source software.
Deeply international in outlook, Nelson has held positions in Hewlett-Packard, Bank of Canada, and Singapore Telecom, and architected leading-edge solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra. Nelson holds a M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto.
Nelson has presented at a number of worldwide conferences including the 2007/08/09 Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto (Canada), 2009 Gilbane San Francisco Conference, 2009 Non-profit Technology Network Conference (San Francisco), 2009 Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference and Expo, and the 2008 International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Symposium.
