Governing Board

Product Strategy and Operations Manager
IBM Edge Computing and Software Defined Networking Business Unit

Hakan Sonmez

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.

Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM
TAC Chair

Joe Pearson

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

Chief Technology Officer
Equinix

Justin Dustzadeh

Coming Soon

Principal Architect
AMD

Keesang Song

Keesang Song is located in Bay Area, working at AMD Santa Clara HQ, leading Telco Ecosystem SW Engineering projects for Enabling and Optimization

VP of Business Development
ZEDEDA
Board Chair, LF Edge

Michael Maxey

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.

Senior Vice President of Business Development at mimik Technology, Inc

Sam Armani

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.

CEO, Dianomic
Board Member, LF Edge

Tom Arthur

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.

Head of Strategy Office at Advanced Technology Development Unit
Fujitsu Ltd.

Yuji Tazaki

He has worked various fields such as cloud services development, data analytics services, and digital marketing platform services and carrier’s network development both for wireline and wireless. He holds master’s degree in information electronics and resides in Kawasaki-city, Japan.

Executive Director of Products and Platform Engineering at Vodafone

Sampada Basarkar

Sampada Basarkar is an Executive Director of Products and Platform Engineering in Vodafone Business. She is a senior executive with a passion for building high-performing teams and delivering results in complex and high-ambiguity environments. Focused on vision, execution, and operational excellence, Sampada has experience delivering large-scale, cross-functional, deadline-driven initiatives as well as iterative, growth, and experimentation initiatives. Throughout her 23 + years of managing software development and support, she has worked with a large subset of Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises. She is also passionate about helping women advance their careers and sponsors programs for their growth.

Corporate Vice President at Intel

Krishna Ganugapati

Corporate Vice President at Intel

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

Albert Wang

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

CEO at Atym

Jason Shepherd

Jason Shepherd is widely-recognized as a thought leader in edge computing and IoT, having spent a third of his twenty-five year career in the space. He has held various executive leadership roles spanning R&D to sales and commercialization, delivering edge and IoT solutions to customers in verticals such as manufacturing, energy, smart buildings, retail and transportation. Prior to Atym, Jason was VP of Ecosystem at the edge orchestration company ZEDEDA and he previously served as CTO for Dell Technologies’ Edge and IoT business. He has worked closely with the Linux Foundation for close to ten years and has a strong track record of fostering standards and open source communities. He holds over 40 granted and pending US patents.

Distinguished Community Architect at Red Hat

Jeffrey Osier-Mixon

Jefro manages Red Hat’s open source engagements covering edge, automotive, telco, and emerging hardware architectures. He has been a contributor, manager, and instigator for FOSS projects dating back to the early 1990s.