Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur born in 1973 in Welcom, Free State, South Africa. He was one of the original developers of Debian Linux and founded Thawte, a digital certificate company, in 1995. In 2001, he formed the Shuttleworth Foundation and in 2002 became the first African in space as a space tourist. He began funding the development of the Ubuntu Linux distribution in 2004 and founded the Ubuntu Foundation in 2005 with an initial $10 million investment. In 2010, he received an honorary degree from the Open University for his work with Ubuntu and FOSS.