Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director
Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenInfra Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.
Mark Collier
Chief Operating Officer
Mark Collier is a co-founder of the OpenStack project and the Chief Operating Officer at the OpenInfra Foundation. A committed advocate for open-source principles, Mark has played a key role in the development and global success of OpenStack, establishing it as a leading cloud computing platform and one of the most active open source projects to ever exist. Recently, he has also been involved in defining “open source AI,” contributing to the industry’s efforts to create clear standards and guidelines. With a background in building multi billion dollar open source ecosystems, Mark is a respected voice in the technology community, sharing his insights at industry events and through various media channels.
Thierry Carrez
General Manager
Thierry Carrez is the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation. A systems engineer by trade, he was involved in the inception of the OpenStack project, and still contributes to its governance and release management.
With a personal interest in the intersection of sociology and technology, Thierry spoke about open innovation and open source at various conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, and FOSDEM. He currently serves as Secretary and Director for the Open Source Initiative. He was recognized as a Python Software Foundation fellow in 2012, and previously worked as the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server at Canonical, an operational manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team, and an IT manager in various companies.
Wes Wilson
Chief of Staff
As the Chief of Staff at the OpenInfra Foundation, Wes is responsible for business operations, as well as, product strategy and execution. The root of his role is to provide value to our community of corporate members, developers, and users through buildout, management, and strategy of key operations functions. Prior to joining OpenInfra Foundation, he spent two decades in startups and has worn many hats from creative to product and marketing.
Allison Price
VP of Marketing & Community
Allison is the VP of Marketing & Community at the OpenInfra Foundation (previously the OpenStack Foundation). Her mission is to continue the storytelling of the global community by building relationships with the developers, operators and ecosystem around global open source communities. In her free time, she likes to listen to Celine Dion, rank local margaritas, and travel.
Clark Boylan
Senior Principal Engineer
It all started as a volunteer sysadmin at Portland State University. Since then Clark has operated large network infrastructures, built radios for airplanes, and is now a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team. When not in front of a keyboard, Clark enjoys brewing beer and barbecuing brisket in his brother's back yard.
Jimmy McArthur
Director of Business Development
Jimmy McArthur is the Director of Business Development for the OpenInfra Foundation. Not only does he recruit global organizations who align with the mission of supporting open source software communities, but he also researches trends that are shaping the future of infrastructure. Through this process, he encourages open collaboration among the growing ecosystem to not only support the business of OpenInfra member organizations, but also the community as a whole. Day-to-day, you can find Jimmy sharing his calendar link with anyone who wants to talk about open source innovation, OpenInfra projects, and the evolution of open infrastructure. He’s passionate about cooking and will happily share his 3X award winning Texas Red chili recipe with you, should you ask.
Kendall Nelson
Senior Upstream Developer Advocate
Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the Open Infrastructure Foundation based in the United States. She first started working on OpenStack during the Liberty release (2015) on Cinder and since then been involved in Release Management, StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She’s recently gotten more involved in the Kubernetes community helping to bridge it with the OpenStack community via SIG Cloud Provider and provider OpenStack. When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, binding open source communities together, or working to make upstream development in open source a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.
Jeremy Stanley
Senior Principal Engineer
A long-time computer hobbyist and technology generalist, Jeremy's worked as a Unix and GNU/Linux sysadmin for more than two decades focusing on information security, Internet services and data center automation. He's a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team and serves on both the technical committee and vulnerability management team. In his spare time he writes free software, hacks on open hardware projects and embedded platforms, restores old video game systems and enjoys articles on math theory and cosmology.
Ildiko Vancsa
Director of Community
Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modelling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. She is a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh core teams and she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder. Beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the Open Infrastructure Foundation.
Helena Spease
Community Programs Manager
Helena is a graduate of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas where she received her Bachelors Degree in Business Management. As the Marketing and Community Associate, she assists in the creation of marketing comms, the collection of analytics, as well as community support around content creation. While working for the OpenInfra Foundation, she is also working to earn a degree in Computer Science. Outside of work and school, she is an avid camper/hiker, true crime junkie, and coffee shop fiend.
Horace Li
Director of OpenInfra Asia
Horace is currently working as Director of OpenInfra Asia to accelerate China OpenStack ecosystem growing up, and Open Infrastructure focused open source projects landing in China. Previously, Horace worked in Intel Open Source Technology Center for 13 years, as technical account manager to support open source community projects engagement in China, including both Cloud Computing, DataCenter and Client Computing business. Outside of working area, Horace likes jogging, swimming, music, movie, fashion and art.
Cathey.co
Public Relations / Analyst Relations Partner
Cathey.co has served the OpenInfra Foundation since 2013, providing messaging, PR, and AR services and thought leadership programming to guide the evolution of the foundation’s flagship OpenStack cloud infrastructure software project. Its team specifically worked to elevate the visibility and expert voices of the OpenInfra Foundation leadership team. Work has included all aspects of marcom and external communications, from strategic counsel through tactical implementation of programming and supporting the efforts of the OpenInfra Foundation's comms teams in APAC and EMEA.
Tipit
Web Development Partner
Tipit is a web development agency with a focus on creating highly usable web and mobile applications where form meets function, blending design and development to generate high code quality with ‘don’t make me think’ interfaces. Started in 2001 by J.P. Maxwell, Tipit maintains a global team of senior engineers and designers who have partnered with the OpenInfra Foundation since 2012 to help develop custom tooling for the OpenInfra Foundation's global events, marketing websites, content management systems, and mobile apps. Devoted to open source software initiatives, Tipit utilizes open source tooling and has released several open source projects.
