GOVERNING BOARD

Alan Clark is an experienced industry and corporate leader who specializes in engineering external R&D. He is a member of the CTO Office and Director for Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source at SUSE. He also serves on the board of the OpenHPC project, LF Networking, OpenStack Foundation, and the Linux Foundation .

David, as Senior Director for Broadcom’s Mainframe business unit, leads R&D for the Core Products Portfolio with $1.2B in annual revenue. His teams focus on developing Broadcom’s mission critical mainframe offerings. These include CA databases, systems management, workload automation, storage and application development products.

David is a technology executive with 20 years’ experience in enterprise software, building, managing, and leading agile teams. An execution focus executive that leads large-scale, transformation efforts, through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.

A native of New York, David is currently living in Charlotte, NC with his beautiful wife, 3 children, and dog (he’s a good boy).

Harry Williams is the Chief Technology Officer of Marist College. He has worked at the college in various technology roles for over 35 years, helping to grow the college from a small local school to a nationally ranked university. He has been active in user groups including The VM Workshop and SHARE, where he worked on collaborative software development and sharing information about software and the mainframe. He is currently President of SHARE. He is part of the team helping to offer the LinuxONE Community Cloud. Harry holds an MBA from Marist College and an MS in Computer Information Sciences from Syracuse University. Harry also volunteers with the local Boy Scout Council and helps his wife run the local food pantry.

Harry Williams is the Chief Technology Officer of Marist College. He has worked at the college in various technology roles for over 35 years, helping to grow the college from a small local school to a nationally ranked university. He has been active in user groups including The VM Workshop and SHARE, where he worked on collaborative software development and sharing information about software and the mainframe. He is currently President of SHARE. He is part of the team helping to offer the LinuxONE Community Cloud. Harry holds an MBA from Marist College and an MS in Computer Information Sciences from Syracuse University. Harry also volunteers with the local Boy Scout Council and helps his wife run the local food pantry.

JP is the Director of Software Engineering for Mainframe Modernization at Rocket Software. He leads and coordinates a number of development teams working on the OMP’s Zowe™ App Framework and its commercial exploitation around Db2, IMS and CICS.

Len Santalucia has been in the IT industry since 1973. He is presently the Chief Technology Officer and the Business Development Manager for Vicom Infinity, Inc, the Chairperson for the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project, a member of the IBM Z Academic Initiative advocate leadership team, an Advisory Board member at Hofstra, Marist College, VCU, and NCAT Universities, an IBM Champion, and the consulting specialist for the Binghamton University ES2 Research Center. Len is also a 30 year IBM veteran. Len was a Senior Consulting Certified Sales Specialist for IBM Americas Linux Impact Team and a Certified IBM Systems and IT Specialist.

He has vast experience with Data Center Design and Implementation, Linux, z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, and their associated subsystems as well as with today’s emerging Mobile, Cloud, Big Data and Analytics, Security, and Social Media technologies. He was also the first member
of the elite IBM Linux Impact Team formed in 2000. In this role, he specialized in Linux, Open Systems, Large Scale Virtualization, Object Oriented, LAN, and Web 2.0 technologies for the Financial Services and Banking Sector. Len is a key liaison in providing IBM customer requirements into the IBM Systems hardware and software labs and co-sponsors the IBM z Systems Executive Councils and User Groups across the East coast. He is also frequently sought after for presenting IBM's Systems Hardware, Software, Linux, Virtualization, and OSS Strategy and Directions at the IBM Executive Briefing Centers, IBM Linux Center of Competence, IBM Palisades Conference Center, IBM Hawthorne Research Center, IBM Top Gun Classes, International Conferences, Consultant Conferences, as well as to individual customers all over the world. He has established thousands of contacts at business, technical, and financial levels in public and private sector organizations worldwide.

Meredith is the VP, IBM Z Ecosystem, helping to build skills and a strong community of partners for IBM Z. She and her team work with clients, universities, students, professional developers and partners around the world to build critical skills needed in the marketplace by IBM and the broader ecosystem. She also leads developer outreach activities including hackathons, meetups, and trial programs to increase awareness of the platform. Meredith has worked with a broad range of IBM software solutions and much of her background is in the Business Intelligence and analytics field where she has worked as a business analyst, enterprise implementation consultant, program manager and leader for Business Analytics technical and sales enablement. Meredith has recently been serving as the IBM Liaison to the SHARE Board and was appointed as the IT Industry Subcommittee Chair for the State of California Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships.

Phil is Chief Architect GETS – Linux on Z at ADP and serves as Chairperson of the TSC for the Open Mainframe Project.

Robert Dahlberg is Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, with over 35 years of Industry experience, and CISSP. Robert has been a security software developer/senior manager, principle consultant, security architect, Design Review Board Chairman, Senior Technical Advisor and university professor over the course of his career. Robert also runs the Open Mainframe Project’s mentorship program.

Steve is VP – Systems Technology at ADP