Linux Foundation LF Events

Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Widely quoted in the press on open source and commercial software trends, Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference, Linux World and OSCON. Zemlin is an adviser on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.

Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the coauthor with Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of web 2.0.

Based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, Wikinomics shows Web 2.0's interactive technology platforms make new ways of value creation not just possible but imperative.

For more than a decade Anthony has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation's role is society.

He was a core member of an esteemed research team that charted a new course for governance and government for twenty top government agencies around the world, and is the author of a major study entitled Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy, and several articles on the topic.

Anthony Williams is Senior Fellow at nGenera Insight. His work has been featured in such publications as BusinessWeek the Globe and Mail and the Times of India, and is widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs.

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.

Vinod Kutty helps architect and maintain the several-thousand strong server infrastructure that handles electronic trading for the largest, most diverse derivatives exchange in the world -- CME Group -- where trillions of US dollars per day worth of transactions depend on Linux.

Scalability, reliability, openness and cost are extremely important in this environment.

His responsibilies include leading the Distributed Computing/Open Systems Research and Development initiatives as well as Kernel/Production Support and High Density Computing. He works closely with vendors on new technology evaluations, and helps voice performance and functionality requirements with Linux distro vendors and hardware OEMs.

Brian W. Clark is Vice President of Global Architecture at the NYSE Euronext. Prior to joining the exchange in 2004, Brian held various senior level Information Technology positions over a 25 year career, primarily in the commercial and investment banking areas of global financial services corporations. In leading the Global Architecture effort at the NYSE Euronext, Brian is focused on optimizing the Information Technology environment through business alignment and the proper allocation of advanced technologies.

By training and inclination, Bhaskar is an engineer and computer scientist, with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science. He manages GT.M (fis-gtm.com), a high performance transaction processing database engine with unique functionality for implementing logical multi-site applications that need fully ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable) transaction processing and an unparalleled degree of continuity of business. GT.M on x86 GNU/Linux is free / open source software (sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm) and is consistently in the top few percent of projects by activity at Source Forge.

Bhaskar believes that open source is good for business, and has been pursuing a GPL based business model for GT.M since it was released under the GPL in 2001. For the release of GT.M under GPL, Linux Medical News awarded Bhaskar its 2002 Achievement Award. Bhaskar is also active in the world of free / open source health care, and is a co-founder and Board member of WorldVistA (worldvista.org), a non-profitable charitable foundation with a mission to promote affordable healthcare IT through the widespread adoption of the VistA healthcare information system developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and which is in the public domain through the Freedom of Information Act. For its work WorldVistA was awarded a 2007 Rave Award by Wired Magazine, and the Linux Medical News 2007 Freedom Award.

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh first developed and sold free software in 1994. He switched from writing in C and assembly to English, and has been writing about the economics of free software and collaborative production since 1994. He is Founding International and Managing Editor of First Monday, the most widely read peer-reviewed online journal of the Internet, and Senior Researcher and Head of the Collaborative Creativity Group at MERIT, at the United Nations University in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

In 1997, he co-authored tools to measure contributions by free software developers by analysing source code, pioneering now widely used research techniques. In 2000 he coordinated the European Union-funded FLOSS project, the most comprehensive early study of free/libre/open source users and developers. He is involved in government policy initiatives on free software and open standards, and conducts research funded by the European Union and the US National Science Foundation. In January 2007, the European Commission published a major study led by him on the impact of open source on the economy, competitiveness and innovation. Since 2005 Rishab has been a board member of the Open Source Initiative.

Theodore Ts'o was the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and organizes the Annual Linux Kernel Developer's Summit, which brings together the top 75 Linux Kernel Developers from all over the world for an annual face-to-face meeting. He was a founding board member of the Free Standards Group, and was chair of that organization until it merged with OSDL to form the Linux Foundation. He is one of the core maintainers for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and is the primary author and maintainer for e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2/3/4 filesystems. At IBM, Theodore served as the architect for the Real-Time Linux development team.

Chris Mason is a member of the Oracle Linux team.

Jonathan Corbet got his first look at the BSD Unix source back in 1981, when an instructor at the University of Colorado let him "fix" the paging algorithm. He has been digging around inside every system he could get his hands on ever since, working on drivers for VAX, Sun, Ardent, and x86 systems on the way. He got his first Linux system in 1993, and has never looked back. Mr. Corbet is currently the co-founder and executive editor of Linux Weekly News; he lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two children.

Bernard Golden is an accomplished high technology executive whose experience in starting and building world-class organizations spans nearly two decades. He has previously served as a Venture Partner for an international venture fund and has been Vice President and General Manager in a number of private and public software companies, including Informix, Uniplex Software, and Deploy Solutions. He is a frequent speaker on Information Technology topics and has been featured in industry publications such as InfoWorld, UnixWorld, O'Reilly onLAMP, and eWeek.

Nimrod Gindi is Director of Corporate Strategy at Mellanox Technologies, which specializes in Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect silicon and system products. Mr. Gindi has been in charge of business development mainly in the USA financial market. Between 2000 and 2005, he was Team Leader for Network Adapter Architecture and Design validation projects and Team Leader for PCI Bridge design projects. Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Gindi was the company's official representative in standard Architecture working group at the InfiniBand Trade Association, and Workgroup Leader in Compliance and In-teroperability Working group(CIWG). Mr. Gindi holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Israel Technion Institute of Technology (2001).

Phil Robb is General Manager of FOSSBazaar.org; a website and community dedicated to improving the governance and adoption of free and open source software within enterprises, institutions, and governments. Phil is also a section manager at Hewlett Packard leading their Open Source Programs Office. In that role Phil manages several product development teams focused on open source solutions and governance including the FOSSology project. Phil is also responsible for HP’s Open Source Review Board which is the governing body within HP for all open source software usage and deployment.

Prior to joining HP in 2001, Phil held senior management and technical positions at Critical Path, Fisher Scientific, Motorola, and Honeywell-Bull. Phil received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Bowling Green State University, and attended Colorado State University toward a Masters degree in Computer Science.

Joe Alexander has responsibility for the software strategy of Bull’s NovaScale product line and the product planning and strategic development of Bull’s GCOS product line. In fulfilling this role, Joe has leveraged AIX, Linux, OSS and Intel-based technology to address the needs of the marketplace by working closely with customers, partners and industry consortiums. In 2004, Joe added to his current responsibility by representing Bull at OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) to accelerate the early adoption of Linux in the Data Center. In January 2007, OSDL merged with the Free Standards Group to become The Linux Foundation (TLF).

Joe now represents Bull in TLF and the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA). Joe is also a Senior Faculty member as an adjunct professor at Keller Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Hart works for the IBM Linux Technology Center as the real-time Linux development team leader. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Nivedita Singhvi has been a software engineer at IBM's Linux Technology Center in Beaverton, Oregon since the olden days of 2001. Prior to that, she worked on Sequent's networking team. Her interests include Linux networking and virtualization. She is currently working on Real-Time Linux for IBM.

Gerritt Huizenga is currently the STG Blue Cloud architect and a Solutions Architect for the Next Generation Systems/Kickstart team in IBM's Systems and Technolgy Group (STG). He is currently working on architecting, designing and ultimately delivering Ensembles and Cloud Computing solutions across the STG hardware brands, in conjunction with IBM Research, the IBM Tivoli team, Software Group and Global Services and various IBM partners. Gerritt was previously a Linux architect for IBM's Linux Technology Center. He started with the LTC in June 2000 on IA64 and general IA32 Linux scalability, in part using NUMA-Q hardware to validate Linux (lack of) scalability. As a result, he kicked off the Linux Scalability Effort (lse) project. As Linux scalability became more acceptable in both capability and in favor with the Linux development community, Gerritt expanded the role to include general enterprise capabilities for Linux, leading to as the overall LTC architect for RAS, scalability, security, bring up on System X platforms, as well as a supporting interest in virtualization. More recently, Gerritt has been working on a role to match Linux and key IBM technologies with enterprise class customers.

Gerritt is also a member of the Linux Foundation's Vendor Advisory Council and previously the Technical Committee Chair for the OSDL's Data Center Linux initiative.

Stephen O'Grady is an industry analyst with RedMonk. He co-founded the firm in November of 2002. Previously, Brian worked for Keane, Dialogos (now defunct), Blue Hammock, and Illuminata. He has a BA in History from Williams College.

Jon Stumpf serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Americas for AIG Global Services (AIGGS) –the primary Infrastructure Services Provider to AIG member companies. Mr. Stumpf joined AIG in 1998 as Vice President of Strategic Implementation for AIG and has held a number of leadership roles, including Global CTO as well as Divisional CTO positions in AIG Technologies (the precursor to AIGGS) and the Commercial Insurance Group. Over his career at AIG, Mr. Stumpf has championed critical global IT initiatives that continue to shape and improve AIG’s global infrastructure. Through his sponsorship, he is responsible for the managed adoption of Free and Open Source software at AIG.

Mr. Stumpf has more than 20 years of IT management experience in a variety of industries. He participates on numerous technology advisory boards including the Linux Foundation’s User Advisory Council, HP’s Open Source and Linux Advisory Council, and VMware’s Customer Advisory Council.

Mr. Stumpf holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Rochester. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

James Bottomley is a Director of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He is Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He has also made contributions to PA-RISC Linux development in the area of DMA/device model abstraction. 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. In 2000 he Joined SteelEye technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO.

Andrew Keith Paul Morton is a leading developer and coordinator of the Linux kernel project. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.

In the late 1980s, Andrew Morton worked as a software and hardware engineer for an Australian gaming equipment manufacturer. From 1992 to 2001 he worked at Nortel Networks' Australian R&D labs as a software development manager. In 2001, Andrew and his family moved from Wollongong, Australia, to Palo Alto, California.

In July of 2003, Morton joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc., in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo.

Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google but continues his current work in maintaining the kernel.

Ron Hovsepian serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc. He is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and leading its growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services.

Mr. Hovsepian, 45, joined Novell in June 2003 as President of North America, and has most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer. In that role he had direct worldwide responsibility for product development, marketing, and field operations, which includes sales, consulting and technical services. Previously, Mr. Hovsepian held management and executive positions at IBM Corporation over a 17 year period, including worldwide general manager of IBM's distribution industries, managing global hardware and software development, sales, marketing and services. With stints in various sales and marketing positions prior to taking profit and loss responsibility at several IBM units, he brings a proven track record of achieving revenue goals and profit growth in the IT solutions business. Mr. Hovsepian also served as a managing director of Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm.

Mr. Hovsepian is non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ann Taylor Corporation. Hovsepian received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College.

Cormier leads Red Hat's technology and products organizations, including engineering, product management and product marketing for Red Hat's technologies. Cormier joined Red Hat in May 2001 as Executive Vice President, Engineering. Paul Cormier's leadership and experience in enterprise technology has led to the introduction of Red Hat's acclaimed line of enterprise products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cormier has been instrumental in forging tight partnerships with many leading technology companies.

Prior to coming to Red Hat, he served as senior vice president of research and development at BindView, helping the company achieve market leadership in 2000. Cormier holds a Master of Science in Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Head Bubba has 21 years experience in IT. He has been at Credit Suisse for 10 years, and has been a member of IT Research and Development since its inception. Prior to Credit Suisse, H.B. was an independent consultant designing systems using object oriented design methodologies. Head Bubba has a degree in Computer Science from the City College of New York.

Sean Foley is a software developer for the IBM Ottawa Lab as part of the IBM Java Technology Centre. With a penchant for solving analytical problems, Sean received a BSc in mathematics from Queen's University in 1994. In 1995, he received an Msc in mathematics from the University of Toronto, with graduate research focused on combinatorial problems in design theory and graph theory. Afterwards, Sean developed software for several companies in the mobile telecommunications and embedded processor industries.

He joined the IBM Software Group in 2002 to develop embedded Java virtual machines and supporting products, such as tools for performing static analysis and optimizations on compiled Java programs. More recently, he has been a key contributor to the real-time class library implementation in the IBM WebSphere Real Time product. He is now a technical leader in the team that continues to develop and improve real-time Java technology.

Greg is a software architect and kernel developer for the Linux Solutions Group within Novell. He specializes in system software and kernel design, and spends most of his days working on the core of the kernel (scheduler, locking, network-stack, virtualization, etc) making it run faster and more predictably.

Prior to joining Novell in 2006, he was the technical lead for the Linux based system infrastructure for the Matrix-X series core enterprise switch at Enterasys Networks. He has been hacking on Linux since the mid 90's and has spent more than a decade developing various system level solutions such as high-availability, filesystems, and transaction-engines for the telecom and networking industry. He holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1997) where he studied computer engineering and cryptography. He currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and two year old son, with a second child expected in December.

Steven Rostedt started playing with Linux at the end of 1996. By 1999, he started playing around with the Linux Kernel. In 2001, he was hired by TimeSys to port their version of the Real Time kernel to various architectures. Since then, he started his own contracting company and worked to customize Linux kernels for his customers. One of these projects involved bringing Linux to be a Real Time operating system where he joined up with Ingo Molnar to help on the RT patch. This lead him to eventually be hired by Red Hat where he now works on the RT patch full time and is also the current maintainer of the RT patch.

Chris DiBona is the open source programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google where his team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches.

Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm.

Frank Ch. Eigler is a systems-level programmer at Red Hat. He has worked on compiler toolchains, debuggers, simulators, and most recently the linux systemtap project.

Kazuhiro Itakura is the Senior Manager, Open Platform Dept. at UFJIS Co., Ltd a 100% subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank focusing on their IT systems.

Raymond Dury is an established IT leader with more than 18 years experience in the global financial services industry including corporate and retail banking, capital markets, merchant processing and brokerage services. Mr. Dury most recently was the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Fifth Third Bank, where he led the business technology planning, new product and application development for the consumer, commercial and processing solutions divisions. In addition, he was responsible for IT infrastructure, enterprise systems, enterprise risk and security solutions, quality assurance and architecture. He served as a member of Fifth Third’s management committee.

Before joining Fifth Third Bank, Mr. Dury held senior leadership positions in top financial services firms, including Managing Director and head of North American Infrastructure for Citigroup, Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer for Barclays Capital, and as Chief Information Officer for Ameritrade Holding Corporation. In these positions, Raymond has been responsible for technology strategy and product development; managing global systems and operations, and leading process improvement and organizational transformations.

Mr. Dury has been an industry thought leader on various technology topics including deployment of scalable financial services systems, trading floor technology, and efficient virtualization of computer system. With a bachelor’s degree in accounting, he effectively communicates with his corporate partners, contributes to overall enterprise strategy, and maintains strong business relationships.

Mr. Dury has been subject of the cover article of the CIO magazine, and quoted in Computerworld, American Banker Magazine, Wall Street & Technology and Windows in Financial Services magazine. Recently he has also spoken on various IT related topics including Development of High Performance Teams, Supporting Technology Innovation for Business Benefits and CIO as a Business Partner.

Currently, Mr. Dury serves as a board member on the AT&T Wireless Board of Advisors and he is a member and past chairperson of the CIO Forum advisory board and recipient of that organization’s Financial Services Executive award. Mr. Dury has also received Salomon Smith Barney’s CIO of the Year award.

Gary Pilafas is the Chief Architect & Managing Director of Enterprise Architecture at United Airlines.

Michael Breuer is the Executive Director; ITI DSS Head of Architecture at UBS. Prior to joining UBS in September of 2007, Mr. Breuer was a Managing Director at NYSE Euronext.

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.

Government Acquisitions, Inc. is an IT solutions provider and trusted advisor to the Federal Government, focused on “Optimizing the Data Center” through consolidation, virtualization, and main frame re-hosting. Federal agencies include Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Department of Agriculture, a top 100 federal prime contractors of 2008 and #1 RedHat federal advanced partner.

Long time advocate of FOSS, Sid met and worked with Linus at Transmeta, a pioneer in VLIW (instruction level parallelism) decoupled by Code Morphing x86 instruction set software. At the Summit, Sid will present a demo of non-hypervisor based virtualization technology. Sid's other interests include KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machines), Qemu and OpenVZ, a container-based virtualization VPS.