The OpenStack Foundation, the open infrastructure community comprised of 34,000+ voting members globally, has elected its 2017 Board of Directors. With 24 members across nine countries and 19 organisations, the Board represents a large, diverse and vibrant open source community.
According to a recent Forrester Research Report, “OpenStack's Global Traction Expands for its Newton Release,” OpenStack has “grown into a de facto standard platform for the private cloud market and now serves as the foundation for public clouds, particularly in Europe and China.”
The OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors includes 24 board members—eight Individual Directors elected by the individual members of the OpenStack Foundation; eight Platinum Directors, each appointed by a Platinum Member of the Foundation; and eight Gold Directors elected by the Gold Members of the Foundation. The elected and appointed directors for 2017 will begin their terms on January 24.
Individual Directors elected on Friday, January 13, are:
Tim Bell, CERN
Russell Bryant, Red Hat
Steven Dake, Cisco Systems
ChangBo Guo, EasyStack
Kavit Munshi, Aptira
Allison Randal, HPE
Egle Sigler, Rackspace
Shane Wang, Intel
Gold Directors elected on Wednesday, January 4, are:
Robert Esker, NetApp
Kenji Kaneshige, Fujitsu
Anni Lai, Huawei
Junwei Liu, China Mobile
Christopher Price, Ericsson
Boris Renski, Mirantis
Lew Tucker, Cisco Systems
Joseph Wang, InwinStack
Platinum Directors appointments are:
Mark Baker, Canonical
Alan Clark, SUSE
Eileen Evans, HPE
Toby Ford, AT&T
Mark McLoughlin, Red Hat
Todd Moore, IBM
Imad Sousou, Intel
Brian Stein, Rackspace
OpenStack Summit in Boston, May 8-11
The OpenStack Summit is the largest open source conference in North America, bringing together open infrastructure communities including OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes and OPNFV, alongside enterprise users, global telecom leaders and research institutions. The four-day event offers networking, hands-on workshops and educational breakout sessions covering topics such as cloud strategy, organisational culture, operations, application development, containers and NFV. Cloud leadership from Bloomberg, eBay, Google, Harvard, Walmart and more have already signed on to speak in Boston.
