Allison Randal
Chair
Open Usage Commons, Software Freedom Conservancy, Eigenstate Ltd, Ericsson Software Technology, The Perl Foundation, Onyx Neon, Inc.
Allison is a software developer and open source strategist. She is the Chair of the Board of the OpenInfra Foundation, a board member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as President of the Open Source Initiative, President of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, Chief Architect of the Parrot virtual machine, Chairman of the Board at the Parrot Foundation, Open Source Evangelist at O'Reilly Media, Conference Chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She participates in the Debian and OpenStack projects, and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Amy Marrich
Individual Director
Red Hat
Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager. Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and a Linux System Engineer on the Platform Engineering Cloud Operations team at Rackspace. She currently serves on the OpenInfra Board, is an active member of the Openstack Ansible project, chair of the OpenInfra Foundation Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy spends her free time competing in performance events (agility, FASt Cat, and dock diving) with her Dalmatians and competing in Dressage with her Connemara pony.
ChangBo Guo
Gold Director
EasyStack
ChangBo Guo serves as Individual Director of OpenInfra Foundation in 2017- 2019 and Oslo PTL for Pike and Queens. He worked on Linux and AIX for several years. He is one of the earliest OpenStack contributors in China. He has been working on the OpenStack since 2012, when he worked on the PowerVM driver under Nova to support IBM Power Systems. He is Oslo core reviewer and have been contributing several projects like Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Oslo, etc. He is one of top contributors in China, has submitted 1000+ commits, with more than 45000 LOCs. As founding engineer of EasyStack, he attended the earliest of large-scale OpenStack adoptions in China, such as Lenovo, Postal Savings Bank of China, China Telecom, State Grid, etc. He was involved in the whole adoption, including platform design, implementation and solving key issues for these customers. He is also an active OpenStack evangelists in China. He is organizer of China OpenStack user group, and promote OpenStack technologies in several meet-ups in China including Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Shenzhen, etc. He is honored to be the host of Beijing OpenStack meet-up from November 2016 and on. He is also keen to help others learn how to contribute in upstream and delivered presentation about upstream contribution for several companies. He leads a upstream team to make OpenStack better and more popular. He attended several design summits and delivered presentations. He served as track chair of upstream development in Barcelona, Boston and Sydney design summit.
Christopher Price
Platinum Director
Ericsson AB, Ericsson Software Technology
I am focused on, and passionate about, open source technologies for next generation networks. Primarily a developer my career has been focused on building and deploying networking technologies for global and carrier networks, more recently my attention has turned to open source community and technology advancement.
A strong believer in collaborative development and open technology ecosystem enablement I am fully invested in exposing technology through open source for global adoption and advancement.
Clemens Hardewig
Gold Director
Deutsche Telekom T-Systems
Clemens is born in Germany and married with three kids, I have a PhD in computer science and worked in the communication industry in different managerial roles in IT.
Working for Deutsche Telekom-T-Systems since 1997, IT wise Clemens grew up in the **ix space and became excited with Opensource and community work already early in my carrier. Since then, the use and promotion of Opensource Technology in the different stations of my carrier is one of the red lines Clemens always tried to facilitate and develop.
Being with Deutsche Telekom in different managerial roles, Clemens has been involved in depth in Community Work as eg in the early days of Mobile Internet where I helped to develop the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Community as a accounable representative for DT.
After several years in Mobile Communications and traditional IT as Technical Manager, Clemens took the opportunity and leads since 2014 the Technology team within T-Systems which builds and delivers the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), a public cloud offering in Europe based on Openstack and being currently accountable for the teams of architects, engineers, operations and consultants.
Eoghan Glynn
Platinum Director
Red Hat
Director of OpenStack Engineering, Red Hat. Eoghan leads the OpenStack engineering team at Red Hat. He has been part of the Red Hat investment in OpenStack for the past decade, first as an individual contributor and upstream project leader, and then later as a manager. He has a long background with open source and with cloud technology, having contributed to the Apache community for many years and also worked on AWS monitoring while at Amazon. Eoghan is based in Dublin, Ireland though he's also part of a highly globalized team at Red Hat.
Erin Bournival
Gold Director
Dell Technologies
Ms. Erin Bournival is a Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies. She joined Dell EMC in 2003 and leads standardization of IoT and Healthcare. Erin leads several international standardization efforts within ISO, IEC, INCITS, and ANSI. She is the Chair of the Working Group on IoT Architecture, Frameworks, and Vocabulary within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC41 “Internet of Things and Digital Twin”, as well as the Vice-Chair and Secretary of the INCITS IoT TAG (Technical Advisory Group). She chairs groups within the Industrial Internet Consortium and Digital Twin Consortium; and represents Dell Technologies in several other national and international standardization efforts in the domains of IoT, Digital Twins, and System Architecture.
Gang Chen
Platinum Director
Fiberhome
As the Chief Architect of FiberHome, Gang Chen focuses on IT Infrastructure, Cloud Computing and Big Data, and he is one of the earliest evangelists of OpenStack in China. Gang Chen has more than 20 years of experience in architecture design, product management and technical consulting in the field of information technology. Prior to joining FiberHome, Chen taught at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and served as a senior consultant and chief IT architect of China HP.
Grace Lian
Gold Director
Intel
Grace Lian is a senior director of Cloud Software Engineering team in Intel. She leads a global team to work on open source cloud software technologies, including OpenStack, k8s, Kata containers, Cloud Hypervisor, Envoy, Istio, Ceph, and Akraino etc. She also drives the strategy in the cloud native software domains for Intel. Grace is an open source veteran. She started to work on open source software from Carrier Grade Linux project back to 2001. She was engineering manager for the first Linux team in Intel China. The team became OTC (Open Source Technology Center) China and has grown many open source talents for the community. She has long time experience leading global engineering teams on open source software development, touching layers of system software (OS, Web/HTML5, virtualization, orchestration, SDN/NFV, SDS, cloud and edge etc.), bringing open source values to business and successfully supporting many customers. Grace's team started to work on OpenStack since 2012. In the past years, her team has contributed significantly to OpenStack upstream development, actively led, participated and promoted many community activities. Intel is also one of the members who started Kata Container project and StarlingX project, and contributed them to Open Infrastructure Foundation.
Jean-Pierre REN
Platinum Director
Tencent
Jean-Pierre REN Zhongping, head of Tencent TStack Architect, General Engineer of Ecole Centrale of Paris, Master of Tsinghua University. He started Private Cloud business since year 2011 and had participated in the cloud architectural design of CNPC. He joined Tencent Cloud TStack (an OpenStack distribution) team in year 2018, and is now in charge of the architectural solution for software and HCI in the TStack product line, an OpenStack distribution.
Johan Christenson
Gold Director
City Network International AB, City Network Hosting AB
Johan Christenson is a serial entrepreneur whom has successfully exited multiple companies he founded. After receiving a graduate degree in Engineering, from Florida Institute of Technology, his focus turned to the digital media space. He has raised money both in the US and Europe from venture capical firms such as Benchmark Capital and Balderton Capital.
Johan is the founder and CEO of City Network, which offers a global public cloud as well as private clouds for enterprises - all based on OpenStack. City Networks mission is to enable innovation and focuses on enterprises with regulatory challenges such as banks and insurance companies.
Johan sees OpenStack as critical for all enterprises in order to provide options and create competition in an ever more centralized infrastructure world. He, and the team at City, empower new types of industries and markets to use the power of OpenStack, to enable and increase innovation in their organizations.
Johan is based in Sweden.
Julia Kreger
Individual Director
Red Hat
I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.
The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.
In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers.
I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic.
Li Kai
Gold Director
99Cloud
I am Kai and am the CSO/Co-founder from 99CLOUD. I had been devoting myself for OpenStack for more than 7 years from 2012. 99CLOUD is the NO.3 code committer. We believe with Open Infra tech, we can some how change the world and help client better in their IT and bussiness transformation. Prior to 99CLOUD, I worked for Intel from 2006~2012 as a SW engineer and Accenture 2012~2014 as Cloud Manager.
Michael Cheng
Platinum Director
Facebook
Michael is a product manager at Facebook, currently supporting open source and standards work across the company.
Michael is former network engineer, investment banker, car salesman and M&A attorney. He previously led the Product and IP function on Facebook's M&A legal team.
While at Facebook, Michael has established and/or now actively serving on the boards of 20+ open source foundations, non-profits, standards setting organizations, including: ML Commons, Confidential Computing Consortium, Libra/Diem Association, Urban Computing Foundation, OpenChain, Open Invention Network Technical Advisory Committee, Magma Foundation, and others.
Mohammed Naser
Individual Director
VEXXHOST, Inc.
Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack. Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack. I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering.
By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then. I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical committee, chairing tthe committee for a term.
Paul Miller
Platinum Director
Wind River
A technology executive with extensive experience in leading complex high technology solutions development, product management, evangelization and team leadership. Entrepreneurial drive and energy combined with deep technical skills used to motivate cross-functional teams and drive products and solutions from concept to production. Experienced and effective at being the voice of the business to industry forums, customers and internal teams. A demonstrated history of business effective product innovation and inventorship.
Rico Lin
Indvidual Director
EasyStack
Rico Lin, OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) member, Heat PTL in the past cycles, char for Auto-scaling SIG, software engineer, EasyStack. Experienced on OpenStack develop(infra and app), Cloud architect, Container(docker and k8s), community(contribute and event host), and customer tech consults and supports. Goals in OpenStack: * Improve experiences of Cloud native application on top of OpenStack(by improving infra and user experiences). * Blending OpenStack with other cloud solutions to make it become one indispensable layer. * Leverage the community differences across global (Include let Asia community get more actively join to others).
Ryan van Wyk
Platinum Director
AT&T
Partner Software Engineering Manager – Microsoft. Ryan van Wyk leads Microsoft’s Azure for Operators – Network Cloud Engineering Team. Through collaboration with Telcom Operators around the world, Ryan and team are working to expand Microsoft’s telecom portfolio with a carrier-grade cloud that provides seamless experiences across Microsoft’s cloud and the operator’s network. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ryan has held a variety of leadership positions within AT&T Communications – primarily driving transformation programs and new technology introduction and engineering. A few of his many contributions to AT&T include leading technology teams that helped: • build the world’s largest Network Function Virtualization Private Cloud Infrastructure. • deliver the first virtualized network functions and services on a network cloud, using an open source approach. • create Airship, a declarative container automation platform designed to rapidly deploy and upgrade cloud infrastructure with no SDN workload impact. • transform the network tools, process, and data that support AT&T’s largest managed networking customers. • integrate products from multiple suppliers to deliver Uverse (AT&T’s award-winning IPTV platform). Additionally, Ryan has driven several innovations that resulted in nine US patents, he served on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Board of Directors in 2021 and has served on the board of directors for the OpenStack Foundation (the third largest opensource software project in the world) since 2019. For the remainder of 2021 Ryan is representing AT&T's Platinum Membership.
Sean McGinnis
Individual Director
Dell EMC
Sean is a Distinguished Engineer in the Dell Technologies Office of the CTO, focusing on programs to support open source usage and involvement across the company. Sean is currently a community representative on the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors. He has served on the OpenStack Technical Committee (TC), was the Project Team Lead (PTL) for the Cinder block storage project and the Release Management team, and is currently a core reviewer in a number of OpenStack projects.
Shane Wang
Individual Director
Intel
Shane Wang is the Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel System Software Engineering group. He has participated in or led his team on research and development of open source software projects such as Xen, tboot, Yocto and OpenStack. He has been serving as an Individual Director of OpenInfra Foundation Board since 2015, with years of commitment to community development and building. Currently he and his team are focusing on cloud native, software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) technologies, edge computing, and NFV-related domains, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, SODA, Istio/Envoy, Akraino, and so forth. He is keen on cloud computing and has been working on this domain for many years. He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.
Shannon McFarland
Gold Director
Cisco
Shannon is a Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Architect for Cloud Native and Application Infrastructure technologies at Cisco. He has been at Cisco for 20+ years. Shannon worked as a systems engineer at a system integrator for many years and as an end-user engineer in the medical industry prior to that.
Shannon has been involved, as a technical contributor in the OpenStack (Since Diablo), Kubernetes and Istio communities, with a distinct focus on all-things networking. He is an author (“IPv6 for Enterprise Networks”) and a frequent speaker at various industry and community conferences to include OpenStack/Open Infrastructure Summits, Cisco Live, etc.
Tim Bell
Individual Director
CERN
Tim is responsible for the group at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which manages the compute infrastructure for 13,000 physicists around the world to support fundamental research. He previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM along with managing large scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank in Europe.
His team is running the CERN OpenStack cloud which has been in production since July 2013 and is currently around 320,000 cores. This cloud provides processing power to analyse the data from the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments which produce around 60PB a year. The practical experiences are shared on the blog at http://techblog.web.cern.ch.
Tim has been an elected individual director of the OpenStack management board since 2012 and was a member of the OpenStack user committee from 2013-2015.
Tytus Kurek
Gold Director
Canonical
As a Product Manager at Canonical, Tytus drives the evolution of Canonical’s products and services in the data centre space. Tytus received his PhD with honours in telecommunications in 2018. His background is data centre administration and cloud engineering. His research interests focus on 5G networks, network functions virtualisation, container network functions and unikernels.
Xu Wang
Platinum Director
Ant Financial, Kata Containers
Xu Wang is a senior staff engineer at Ant Financial and an initial member of Kata Containers Architecture Committee. He was the CTO and Cofounder of hyper.sh and created hypervisor-based open source container runtime runV (secure as VM, fast as container). runV merged with clear containers from Intel, and become Kata Containers project in Dec 2017. Before cofounded hyper.sh, Xu worked in a public cloud in China since 2011 and was working for China Mobile cloud team from 2007 to 2011. Xu had experiences on Linux Kernel, virtualization, container, and distributed storage system. And he is also a technical writer and translator on Linux, virtualization, NoSQL etc.
Xudong Ren
Platinum Director
Huawei
Bill Ren holds an EMBA and Master Degree from PeKing University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 2000，Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General Manager of Business OSS, Vice President of Network OSS, Vice President of Network OSS Strategy and MKT, Vice President of Solution MKTG, etc. We have accumulated rich experience in R&D, marketing and product management.
Mr. Ren Xudong（Bill Ren）serves as the General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, and as the chief liaison officer of Huawei. In this role，he is fully responsible for responsible for the implementation of open source solutions for operators/enterprises in the network automation industry, using open source means to build industrial ecology, expand industrial space, build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment, and support the success of the company's business.
