OPENPOWER FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Member Level : Individual Members
Allan Cantle currently is the CEO of Nallasway, a consulting Company in the area of Distributed, Heterogeneous, High Performance Computing Solutions. Most recently, Allan was CTO of the I.S.I. group in Molex from 2018 to July 2020 after Nallatech was acquired by Molex along with BittWare. Prior, Allan founded Nallatech where he resided for 25 years and held two positions; CEO from 1993 thru 2005 where he had full P&L responsibility growing Nallatech's revenue at a 50% CAGR, and, President and Founder from 2006 to 2018 where he was responsible for Nallatech's Product Roadmap based around solving real application problems with the best heterogeneous computing solutions.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director / RED Semiconductor
David is a graduate Electrical and Electronic Engineer, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET (formerly the IEE), and a hardware engineer who has worked extensively in software.
As an engineer his expertise has spanned telecommunications, networking, computing and semiconductors and his international professional career has taken him from Europe to the Far East and the US.
David has held engineering roles, consultancy roles, and Business management roles, at Director level, culminating as a public company Chairman.
From his early days with Philips worked on the design and manufacturing of telephone systems as the industry went digital. He and his engineering team were one of the first to develop PCs sidestepping the IBM Bios, followed by nearly forty years acting as an engineering consultant, both in leading technology and organisational structure. David brings a significant width and depth of real-world technology industry experience.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Hardware Architecture TWG
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
James is Executive Director of the OpenPower Foundation, with over 10 years of open source experience across hardware, software, and network engineering disciplines. James brings a passion for open source and is committed to growing OpenPower Foundation's membership, community, and ecosystem. He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in enterprise technology and has worked in roles spanning operations, business development, product management, and engineering. Previously, James was co-founder and COO at Hyper.sh, an open source cloud-native virtualization startup acquired by Ant Financial. Prior to that, he led product management in Red Hat's OpenStack group, and was a product lead on AT&T's first OpenStack Cloud. James graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Electrical Engineering and is based in New York.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Member of the Technical Committee
- Director / Oregon State University
- Director for the Oregon State University Open Source
- Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) and has been involved with many open source projects since 2003. The OSUOSL provides hosting for more than 160 projects, including those of worldwide leaders like Debian Linux, the Linux Foundation and AlmaLinux. The most active organization of its kind, the OSUOSL offers world-class hosting services, professional software development and on-the-ground training for promising students interested in open source management and programming.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Is Director
- President / IBM
Meow Yee is Director, China Power Partnerships & Business Development, for Power Systems at IBM Corporation. She has broad ecosystem and business development experience working with hardware and software business partners, working in IBM's software and hardware divisions. She has deep experience in mergers & acquisitions and led the negotiations and formation of a joint venture. Before her current role, she was on an international assignment to China for 2.5 years with market development responsibility for IBM China's mainframe business. Prior to that, as the Program Executive for Asian Initiatives at IBM, she managed a ground-breaking project to share best practices across 30 global companies on growing businesses in Asian marketplaces, that culminated in IBM's first Asian Leadership Conference. She has managed a multi-hundred million dollar software business in IBM, developed IBM's corporate information architecture, and worked as a researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Ms. Yee has been recognized with the National Women of Color Technology All Star, YWCA Salute to Women and the US President's Lifetime Volunteer Service awards. Ms. Yee graduated with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Imperial College London, England.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Compliance Work Group Chair
Sandy Woodward is the OpenPOWER Foundation Compliance Work Group Chair. Sandy has over 20 years of experience with the IBM POWER architecture. She is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and is an IBM Academy of Technology Member.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Software Engineer at Google
Tim "mithro" Ansell is a software engineer at Google and has been developing open source software for 20+ years. Tim has recently started trying to shake things up in the hardware accelerator development ecosystem by removing roadblocks to having a completely open ecosystem. Recently he worked with SkyWater Foundry to release a fully open source, manufacturable PDK for their 130nm process node and is funding a free shuttle program for open source designs. He has also contributed to projects in the open EDA ecosystem like OpenROAD, OpenRAM, Magic and many others.
Toshaan Bharvani is a IT consultant and currently CTO at VanTosh, from Antwerp, Belgium. He has a interest in Open Source Software and IT Hardware. He started his IT interest at a very early age, when his father gave him his first own PC components. Ever since he has been interested in IT hardware and software. Toshaan started working for an IT reseller and learned a lot about the hardware part, ranging from motherboard designs, to assembly process and to technical hardware reselling. In business, he tends to combine higher level applications with lower level systems. Toshaan has been involved in open source projects and communities, and focuses on hardware and software, porting and optimizing software, running cloud and container platforms.