Governing Board

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Flexnode

Andrew Lindsey

Andrew Lindsey is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flexnode, a digital infrastructure company working to deliver the next generation of distributed, high-performance data center solutions for ‘go-anywhere’ compute capacity to support rapidly growing data demand at the network edge and core.

Senior Technical Program Manager at AVEVA
TAC Vice-Chair

Daniel Lazaro

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).

Vice President Software Applications
Emerson Automation Solutions

Dave Denison

Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions

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

Senior Principal Community Architect
Red Hat

Lisa Caywood

Lisa Caywood is a Senior 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 as Vice Chair of the eBPF Foundation. 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.

Senior Director, Product Management, Network and Edge Group
Intel

Marilyn Basanta

Senior Director, Product Management, Network and Edge Group at Intel

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 Director of Platform, Network and NFV Architecture
Charter

Mohammad Zebetian

Mohammad is leading the cloud and infrastructure architecture for Charter Communications. He is responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and innovation for Cloud and Edge.

Mohammad has been actively engaged with the industry and helping shape the future of cloud, NFV, and Edge for almost two decades. He is a globally-minded high-tech executive with extensive leadership experience and an inspiring leader and communicator with a proven track record of scaling organizations and cross functional teams towards a shared strategic vision.

Mohammad currently resides in The Mile High City, Denver, Colorado.

General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd

Ren “Bill” Xudong

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.

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.

Open Source Community and Ecosystems Manager at Bytedance

Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala advocates for a cross-functional, cross-organizational forum of open source leaders across Industry to ensure Alignment to Corporate Business Goals and consistent and positive presence in communities at Byte Dance for their 50+ Open source projects. As a community development manager and technology evangelist, she has led product go to market, developer messaging, grown developers communities from scratch from 0 to thousands worldwide and gotten single company contributions projects into vendor neutral communities like Linux Foundation and grew them into mature open source projects with development, communication and decision making all happening in open. She has also established developer summits to become flagship community events and worked with the ecosystem to drive open source adoption in OneAPI, SDN, NFV, 5G and Edge. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap, for Beyond 5G Technology Roadmap. Under her leadership, the Intel Network Developer Evangelism program was nominated for Network Transformation Awards 2018, and received Edison award and Network Developer Dynamo award at Intel. She is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences in SDN/NFV, and has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Sub-committee Akraino. Sujata has worked at several companies, including CISCO, Agere, Ericsson, Avaya, Brocade, leading all phases of diverse software technology projects such as an SDN open flow implementation, TCP/IP/Ethernet/VLAN forwarding software development on CISCO switches, and network processors and cloud deployments using virtualization technologies. She has a Masters from IISc Bangalore and a Bachelors from IIT Kharagpur and has completed an Executive Women Leadership Program from Stanford

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.

Senior Director Software Communities & Fellow at Arm

Andrew Wafaa

Andrew leads Arm’s Open Source Office, encompassing internal and external open source engagements. As a member of Arm’s Software leadership team, he is responsible for building the relationships between Arm and key open source projects.

With nearly 20 years of experience in the Open Source space working for the likes of Fujitsu, EMC, Sun Microsystems as well as local government IT teams. He has held and continues to hold numerous Board positions in various Open Source projects and Foundations, including Xen, the Yocto Project, FreeBSD Foundation, Zephyr and openSUSE. Prior to the technology world, Andrew spent over a decade in the aviation space and is slowly returning to it as a private pilot.