From The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation board of directors currently consists of 16 directors, as specified by the Bylaws.
Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. Previously he was a Director of JBoss (acquired by Red Hat Software) and Linux International (LI). One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. Previously he served as interim CEO of Medsphere. From September 2002 to December 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners where he helped lead Azure's investments in Zend and Medsphere. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002 and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. At VA Linux, he launched SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development community. Also at VA, he acquired Andover.net, merging SourceForge.net, Linux.com, Slashdot, and other well-known Open Source Internet sites to form the Open Source Development Network (OSDN).
Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Larry can be found online at http://lmaugustin.com.
James Bottomley, Technical Advisory Board
James Bottomley is an active member of the open source community. He maintains the SCSI subsystem, the MCA subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper HA project. He has spoken before at LinuxWorld, Usenix ATC, ALS, OLS and the Kernel Summit.
Alan Clark, Novell
As a Strategic Advisor for Industry Initiatives and Standards, Alan Clark enjoys his role within the office of the CTO for Novell's Open Platform Services. In addition to the activities within the Linux Foundation, Alan currently participates on several technical committees, work groups, steering committees and Board of Directors for several Industry forums.
A principal portion of Alan's career has been devoted to the research and development of distributed multi-platform server services. His experience is with file systems, Directory Services, LDAP Services, Object Databases, Security, Developer Interfaces, Web Services, Network Protocols and more.
Wim Coekaerts, Oracle
Wim Coekaerts is Vice President of Linux Engineering for Oracle, reporting to Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven. He is responsible for managing Oracle's Unbreakable Linux strategy with a dedicated focus on ensuring large enterprises can adopt Linux quickly. Mr. Coekaerts has spent more than 7 years building a large-scale development and support organization and has fostered comprehensive customer and partner relationships, which helps drive the company's evolution of Linux. Additionally, his group develops and makes on-going contributions to the Linux community, including the first Cluster File System to be accepted into the Linux mainline kernel in 2006.
Masahiro Date, Fujitsu
Masahiro Date is the General Manager of Fujitsu and has been involved in operating systems at Fujitsu including development and development management of Fujitsu proprietary operating systems and Solaris and Linux. Mr. Date has been active in the Linux community for many years including acting as Secretary and Director of the Linux Foundation.
Frank Fanzilli
Frank Fanzilli is a seasoned software veteran and advisory to early and late stage software companies. Previously, he held the post of Global Chief Information Officer and Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) where he grew the technology business into a $2 billion division with operations in all major financial centers.
In addition to his board seat at The Linux Foundation, Frank today serves on the board of InterWoven Inc., a Sunnyvale, California based content-management software provider, where he is also chairman of the Strategy Committee and was formerly Chairman of the Board; CommVault Inc., a fast-growing software company in the data backup space which launched a successful IPO in 2006.
Frank also serves on the boards of Calypso, a privately held financial derivatives software developer located in San Francisco; IT Structures, an early stage company in the virtualization of software testing; and Correlix, an early stage company which develops software to improve the performance of trading systems. Formerly, Frank was a founder of nLayers, Inc., a privately held software company which was acquired by EMC in 2006, and was a director of PeopleSoft (sold to Oracle) and Avaya (sold to Silverlake/TPG). In addition, he is an advisor to several venture capital firms on the west coast. Frank holds an M.B.A in Finance from New York University and a B.S. in Management from Fairfield University.
Doug Fisher, Intel
Doug Fisher is Vice President, Software and Solutions Group (SSG), and general manager of SSG’s Systems Software Division at Intel. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for a broad range of development, enabling, architecture analysis and optimization efforts including pre-boot firmware, operating systems, virtualization, middleware software, graphics, SoftSDV and client/server projections. In addition, Fisher has been named the Intel corporate “Mega Initiative” owner for virtualization.
Fisher joined Intel in 1995 and for the first few years managed several new product development and research efforts including projects around remote LAN access, data over VBI, and “Internet in a box” before moving to Intel’s Enterprise Platform Group where he led the Server Management Software development organization for three years. In 1999, Fisher transferred to Intel Online Services as the director of engineering for Europe and moved to England to set up the international engineering organization. In 2000, he was appointed director of worldwide engineering for Intel Online Services.
Prior to joining Intel, Fisher worked for 10 years at Hewlett-Packard where he started his career as a software developer on a real-time operating system with his final role as the marketing manager over the OpenView Network Node Manager product line.
Fisher holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University, and a master’s degree in management from Stanford University.
Dan Frye, IBM
Daniel D. Frye, Vice President - IBM Open Systems Development, is the head of IBM’s Linux development team - the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) - and is responsible for overseeing IBM’s Linux technical strategy and IBM’s participation in the open source Linux development community.
The mission of the LTC is to help the global open source Linux community make Linux better, to ensure Enterprise-level Linux support for IBM’s Hardware, Software, and Services brands, and to help expand the reach of Linux into new markets. LTC engineers are trusted, valued members of dozens of open source communities and contribute broadly to open source in many respects.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Dr. Frye was a member of IBM’s Emerging Technologies and Business Opportunities team where he worked on company-wide technical strategies that predicted future trends and transitions in the IT industry. It was during this time that Dr. Frye co-authored the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Since then, Dr. Frye has been a key participant in both the IBM-wide Linux and open source core teams that have overseen the adoption of Linux and open source as key strategic initiatives for IBM.
Dr. Frye has an M.A. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1982) and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Idaho (1979). He also received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1985). Dr. Frye is a member of multiple Linux and open source industry groups including being a founding Board Member of The Linux Foundation.
Hisashi Hashimoto, Hitachi
Hisashi Hashimoto has been working on the development and management of commercial operating systems based on UNIX since he joined Hitachi. His responsibilities encompass both workstations and mainframes. He also has extensive experience managing collaborative development with other UNIX vendors. He now works with the Open Source Software Technology Center and is responsible for the collaboration with other vendors and the OSS community, including the work with the Open Source Software Promotion Forum in Japan.
Randy Hergett, HP
Randy Hergett is the Director of Engineering for the Open Source & Linux Organization (OSLO). In this role, he has responsibility for the OSLO engineering organization including development, testing & certification, and technical support of Open Source & Linux solutions. His team is also responsible for open source programs and governance across HP.
With Hewlett-Packard since 1981, Randy has a history of driving innovation balanced with delivering business commitments. He has held a variety of engineering, management, and business planning roles in HP’s calculator, notebook, enterprise storage, and digital imaging businesses. Prior to his current position, he was the director of R&D for HP’s digital camera business
Brian Pawlowski, NetApp
Brian Pawlowski is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Network Appliance, Inc. Since joining NetApp in 1994, Brian has been involved in the design of high performance, highly reliable storage systems. Brian has been working on open protocols for storage since his earlier position at Sun Microsystems, was co-author of the NFS Version 3 specification and is currently co-chair of the NFS Version 4 working group at the IETF. Brian led the design team for NetApp's first SAN product and holds several patents related to that work. Additionally, Brian has been driving the Open Source strategy at Network Appliance, defining NetApp's community engagements and directing funding to open source efforts critical to NetApp's customer's success.
Chris Schlaeger, AMD
Chris Schlaeger joined Advanced Micro Devices in April of 2006 as Director of the newly founded Operating System Research Center. In this capacity, he ensures that upcoming AMD processors meet the needs of modern operating systems and manages the teams that are contributing to popular Open Source projects like the Linux Kernel and the Xen hypervisor.
Prior to AMD he worked as VP of Engineering for Novell and SUSE. He was instrumental in expanding SUSEs product portfolio into the enterprise -- including the addition of several new hardware platforms such as AMD x86-64, IBM i, p and zSeries. He also expanded SUSEs "Single Source Code for all hardware platforms" strategy from 3 to 10 different hardware platforms.
Chris has been an Open Source developer since 1991. He is a long-time member of the KDE Core Team and founder of the TaskJuggler Project Management Software project. He still is an active Open Source developer in his spare time.
Tsugikazu Shibata, NEC
Tsugikazu Shibata is the Senior Manager of NEC and has an extensive background in the development and management of proprietary operating systems, including work with mainframes and super computers. He currently belongs to the Open Source Software Promotion Center of NEC; there he works collaborately with vendors and the open source community. Mr. Shibata has also occupied a senior role in the Linux Foundation's Japan Linux Symposium.
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project, an enterprise Linux distribution that is freely available worldwide and has both cutting-edge desktop and enterprise server editions, and has become very popular. Mark studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town, and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and internet privacy. He sold Thawte to US company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City and Khazakstan. In April 2002 Mark flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004 he founded the Ubuntu project, which aims to produce a free, high quality desktop OS for everybody.
Eric Thomas, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments is a leading provider of application processors for the mobile handset industry and has been supplying Linux solutions to this industry for the past six years. Eric Thomas has 15 years experience contributing to mobile handset design and has been joined TI in 2001 to lead the Wireless Terminals Business Unit's strategy to enable Linux-based handset manufacturers. In his role within the Wireless CTO organization, Eric represents TI on the Board of Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) and has participated in Consumer Electronics Linux Foundation (CELF) and the Java Community Process (JCP). Texas Instruments joined The Linux Foundation in late 2007 in order to participate directly with those who are invested in Linux and working to define both technical and operational best practices with open source business models.
Christy Wyatt, Motorola
As Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development for Motorola's Mobile Devices business, Christy Wyatt is responsible for building a healthy software economy around Motorola's handset platforms and for taking Motorola's platform strategy to carrier partners. Christy leads the carrier market development and software alliance teams and the MOTODEV developer program to work with carriers and developers alike to foster and deliver a vibrant solutions economy for our customers.
Prior to joining Motorola, Christy served as Worldwide Developer Relations Director at Apple Computer where she was responsible for partners, global alliances and evangelism. Before her time at Apple, Christy was Senior Director at Palmsource Inc. responsible for their licensing and developer relations teams where she grew the developer community from 3,000 to 200,000 with over 14,000 applications.
Christy has also held key technical, sales and business development roles at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft and ESRI.