Governing Board

Cole Crawford is CEO and founder of Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge and the leading provider of tower-connected edge colocation and interconnection services. He was previously the founding executive director of the Open Compute Project and a co-founder of OpenStack. He is a founding board member of the Open19 Foundation and has been a thought leader in data center technology for over a decade. He is leading Vapor IO in developing the largest nationwide edge colocation and interconnection platform at the edge of the cellular network. Cole has been named to Data Economy’s list of The World’s Most Influential Data Economy Leaders and The World’s First Top 50 Edge Computing Influencers.

Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at the CTO office at OSIsoft, focusing on technology, research and innovation projects related to IIoT, Open Source and Energy (Distributed Energy Resources). Daniel acts as technical liaison for strategic partners and represents OSIsoft at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Daniel collaborated in various international research and development projects related to both edge and cloud.

Daniel holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark).

Dave Landsman is the Director Industry Standards at Western Digital.

Engineering Technologist, Office of the CTO at Dell

Eric Watko is a highly-accomplished, solutions-driven technology development leader and visionary business strategist. He is currently the Vice President of Innovation Product Line Management for American Tower’s Innovation business unit where he is responsible for bringing new edge data center infrastructure solutions to market for cloud, enterprise and private networks.  Eric has held numerous senior management roles with companies such as SES Networks, iDirect and Cisco Systems.  He has a consistent track record of delivering innovative business and technology solutions that have increased customer satisfaction and stimulated new markets and business/revenue growth. For more than 15 years he has also championed methods of improving product and process performance/functionality related to new product introductions.

He is responsible for leading technology strategy, product portfolio evolution, system architectures, platform engineering, and organic and inorganic innovations to ensure F5’s leadership position in multi-cloud application services. Meet the diverse needs of NetOps, SecOps, and AppDev communities, and support our customers’ transformation journey towards application-centric digital businesses.

Hakan currently serves as a Product Strategy and Operations Manager at IBM’s Edge Computing and SDN business unit. His focus areas are Edge computing, Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking and applying AI/ML to multi-cloud operations. He works closely with IBM technical leadership on the Open Horizon project of LF Edge. Previously, he was a lead consultant at IBM Corporate Strategy team.

Prior to IBM, Hakan held various technology roles in Networking and Telco industry, including Cisco Systems, Airvana Networks, Sycamore Networks and NextWave Wireless.

Hakan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakansonmez/

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Hatsumi is the Senior Director of Strategic Planning Unit in Fujitsu Ltd. She is currently responsible for the open source and community strategy, and leading to create 5G era global network & business architecture. Her previous roles included director positions of both Product Planning and Business Management of global photonic business. She was assigned to Texas US for more than 8 years and her main business has been for big carries in US market.

She has BS for Mathematical Statistics, and resides in Kawasaki city, Japan.

Henry leads system and software architecture for HP retail, hospitality, healthcare products and solutions. Henry has over 30 years of experience developing embedded systems, VOIP gateways, and mobile phones from startups to global companies.

Henry holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California San Diego.

Jim Xu is a principal Engineer at Zenlayer. Zenlayer is an innovative company in the Edge Cloud business. Before joining Zenlayer, he was a Tech Leader in Cisco’s flagship products, a Principal Engineer at Futurewei Technologies enterprise networking and Edge Computing products. He also partnered with several companies before, on the Edge Computing IoT and on Decentralized Cloud. He has been granted over 20 US and international patents. He was actively involved in early DPDK community, managed the ODL projects within company, and advocated blockchain and Hyperledger technologies across other partners.

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

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KJ is Director – Inventive Science at AT&T, where he leads the Network Cloud Infrastructure Research lab.

Lisa Caywood is a Principal Community Architect at Red Hat, focusing on projects and communities of interest to the telco and manufacturing industries. She serves as the Red Hat representative on the LF Edge Board and Magma Core Outreach Committee. She has a long history with Linux Foundation networking and telco communities, starting with OpenDaylight while with a founding member company, and later serving as Marketing Director for LF Networking and LF Edge while at the Linux Foundation itself.

Martin Bäckström is a member of the LF Edge Governing Board & The Head of Industry Area Datacom. Martin is responsible for leading ICT technology convergence and fostering co-operation between industries in areas such as Software Defined Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, Analytics, Automation, Digitalization, and IoT. Prior to this position, Martin joined Smart and PLDT in Manila in The Philippines as The Chief Technology and Information Advisor for several years. His previous positions in Ericsson include being head of Radio Technology Development, Principal designer for GPRS and Packet PDC, and CTO for Ericsson APAC Innovation. Martin has been actively participating in ICT technology evolutions from 2G, 3G, to 4G and 5G and actively leading engagements related to standardization and open source projects to drive for convergence and harmonization.

Maxey, aka Michael Maxey, is the VP of Business Development, where he focuses on building and executing go-to-market (GTM) strategies with ZEDEDA customers and partners. Prior to ZEDEDA, Maxey held executive product management and business/corporate development roles at various infrastructure companies like Dell, Greenplum, Pivotal Software, Smallstep Labs, and EMC.

Dr. (Peter) Moonki Hong has been taking responsibilities for technical and business enabling project management based on Edge/IoT open source ecosystem in Samsung Electronics. His open source contributions span from IoTivity and EdgeX Foundry to Home Edge Project in LF Edge since 2014 and he has one a several award like Outstanding Contributor Award from OCF (Open Connectivity Foundation) in 2017. He is currently leading Samsung’s open source activities in Home Edge in LF Edge, ONAP (Open Networking Automation Platform) in LF Networking, and O-RAN SC (Software Community) and so on, which must be core components to build up the innovative ecosystem in 5G and beyond 5G regarding open source projects. He is also a Samsung representative of OPC (Open Platform Communications) Foundation.

Mr. Ren Xudong（Bill Ren）is a member of the LF Edge Governing Board. He also serves as the General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, and as the chief liaison officer of Huawei. He is fully 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.

Bill Ren holds a Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 1998，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. He has accumulated rich experience in R&D, marketing and product management.

Renu N. Navale is vice president in the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the smart edge platforms division at Intel Corporation. She is responsible for overall strategy, software and platforms that strengthen Intel’s presence in the network edge computing business sector. She also leads ecosystem enabling for the Network Platforms Group (NPG) to accelerate network and edge transformation, and she fosters scale and industrywide collaboration through open source initiatives.

She is an experienced executive in the software technology sector. She brings a diverse skill set and expertise to mimik, including sales, business strategy, product management, and engineering. She has been with the company from an early stage and has made significant contributions to the development of the company and its products.

Prior to joining mimik in 2010, she held key leading positions at startups Mobidia and L3 Technology and before that she was with Sage Software. At Mobidia, Sam was part of a leading sales team, worked closely with the sales and engineering teams internally and held a key customer facing position focused on delivering network optimization solutions to large mobile operators. At Sage she held various positions including leading a product specialists’ team and delivering the right business software solutions to the business partners’ channel.

Sam holds degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.

Sven van der Meer is a lead architect at VMware building an autonomic grid covering RAN, edge, core, and private mobile networks.

Tina Tsou is an innovator and a visionary with far-reaching accomplishments within the technical engineering realm. As Arm’s Enterprise Architect, Tina serves in the highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzes, designs, and implements robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects. Tina also serves as Arm’s Edge Computing Team Lead. As the company’s open source thought leader, she builds powerful partnerships with and influences open source communities in support of multiple architectures. Tina previously served as the Digital Domain Expert (Connectivity) for Philips Lighting, where she implemented NB-IoT in an outdoor carrier project with China Mobile and Huawei. She released Bluetooth + ZigBee combo chip architecture and delivered connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Tina 100+ patents. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies. Tina was the first woman to chair an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group from a Chinese business enterprise and was the youngest Asian rapporteur in ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) history. She currently serves as Chair of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee.

Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Dianomic, a major contributor of the LF-Edge project “Fledge”; an open source framework and community for the industrial edge focused on critical operations. Fledge developers build smarter, better, cheaper industrial solutions for: condition-based monitoring, predictive maintenance, smarter machines and situational awareness all integrated with the operator’s existing “brown field” systems.

Tom is a serial computer software and services entrepreneur with broad experience in networking, security, database and cloud-based service offers. Tom and his teams have raised over $400M in funding and had 5 exits totaling more than $3.5B.

Walid Negm is Altran’s Group Chief Innovation Officer and has responsibility for bringing the latest innovations to clients through R&D activity in Altran global centers. He is a member of Altran’s Global Executive Committee. In addition to overseeing Altran’s technology strategy, Walid is responsible for new capability (including Open Source software) development in strategic areas of 5G/Edge, Digital Therapeutics, ADAS/AD and VTOL/ Electrification. Walid launched the Open Source and co-innovation model at Altran accelerating innovation in SDN/NFV, Blockchain and Cyber Security and is currently a member of the Linux Foundation Edge (LF Edge) Governing Board. Previously, Walid was Accenture’s global lead of R&D and helped launched Accenture’s cloud platform and established Accenture’s Washington, DC cyber defense lab. Walid co-founded network security and mobile infrastructure startups and earned his bachelor and master of science in computer engineering from Boston University. He earned his masters of business administration from Georgetown University.

Previously, Wenjing was a Distinguished Engineer at Dell Research and a Chief Architect at VMware. He was an entrepreneurial technologist in the startups Sentient Networks, Inc. and WiFi pioneer Airespace, Inc., both of which were acquired by Cisco and whose flagship products became major business lines at Cisco Systems. He was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and also held the position of Senior Director of Product Management in Security at Nokia.

Mr. Yachen Wang is the General Manager of Wireless and IoT Network Center in Tencent. He is mainly leading in Tencent IoT Network, 5G, edge computing, Radio and wireless network related technical research, platform development and network deployment. before Mr. Yachen Wang joined in Tencent, he was the Deputy General Manager of Network Technology and AI R&D Center in China Mobile, President of ONAP, Vice Chair of Linux Networking Fund including ONAP, ODL, OPNFV etc. and Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G Working Party. He has much experience in 4G/5G, NFV/SDN, network evolution, international standardization, and open source etc.