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 .

Cameron Seay is Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University

Harry Williams is the Chief Technology Officer of Marist College. He has worked in various technology roles at the college 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.

Jeff Cherrington is Vice President, Product Management, System Z at Rocket Software. Jeff joined Rocket after its acquisition of ASG Technologies, where he was Vice President for Systems Product Management since 2018. Prior to joining Rocket, Jeff was Sr. Director, Product Management, at CA Technologies, where he brought to market the first new CA internally developed mainframe product in over five years. That product went on to produce $30 million in new sales in the first year. He is a technology executive with extensive experience providing data processing services and packaged infrastructure software to payments, banking, finance, and other verticals, for both billion-dollar publicly held companies and bootstrap start-ups. Previous positions include VP of Product Management/Marketing, Prime Factors; multiple positions at PKWARE, Inc., including VP of Product Management, Technical Director – EMEA, and VP of Vertical Solutions. Cherrington holds an EMBA from the University of Nebraska.

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.

Martin is Managing Director at Citi

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.

Misty spent most of this time at IBM in roles such as system administrator, project management, customer satisfaction, HW development manager and academic outreach. She currently is a Product Marketing Director at Micro Focus helping companies learn how to modernize their existing mainframe applications with concepts such as DevOps, microservices and cloud.

In this role, Peter partners with mainframe clients on adopting modern development practices and open tooling, to further their innovation. With 30+ years in the IT industry, Peter’s experiences have included executive and management leadership roles in Engineering, Delivery, and Support with customer-facing roles in Product Management, Solutions Consulting, and Technical Marketing. Peter has experience ranging from Cloud to Mainframe, with extensive international experience including assignments abroad and leading teams across numerous WW locations. Peter lives in the Raleigh NC area and has a dog named Ellie!

Phil is LinuxOne Engineering Operations Director at Citi and serves as Chairperson of the TAC for the Open Mainframe Project.

Steve is VP – Systems Technology at ADP