About Linaro » Management Team
Management Team
The management team work with the Technical Steering Committee and Linaro members to translate strategy and resources into deliverables. They are responsible for the operational success of the foundation and achieve this by managing the "day to day" logistics of running a software engineering company. Responsibilities include, operational management, alliances and marketing, organizing and chairing the TSC , the management of budgets, recruitment of new members, and event logistics such as The Linaro Developer Summits and code sprints. The management team are accountable to the Board.
Chief Executive Officer - George Grey
George is Chief Executive Officer of Linaro, whose mission is to bring together the open source
community and the electronics industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce
industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions
and stacks to land on. George joined Linaro in 2010 bringing a wealth of industry knowledge.
Prior to joining Linaro George led software and hardware technology companies for over 25 years,
gaining wide ranging expertise in business strategy, product development, sales and marketing.
Early in his career he spent 12 years as founder and then CEO of Tadpole Technology plc, a developer
of advanced mobile workstations. More recently at SavaJe, a pioneer of Smartphone operating systems,
he developed a deep understanding of advanced software technologies, and worked with partners and
customers across the entire mobile industry. George has built a reputation for leading and growing technology
companies, and brings to Linaro extensive experience in creating innovative products and solutions for global
markets. George holds a degree in Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University and resides in Boston, USA.
Chief Technical Officer - David Rusling
David always enjoyed mathematics, but America's space program together with 'Star Trek' made him think that computers were really interesting and so he graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science. The future turns out to have less flashing lights than he expected. At Digital Equipment Corporation he got involved in the port of Linux® to the Alpha processor. This gave him an abiding respect for the power of open source in general and Linux in particular. He worked on StrongARM before moving to ARM where he added tools experience. He's an ARM Fellow; which he says, "really means that I'm a techno-dweeb with a wide freedom to meddle."
Chief Operations Officer - Stephen Doel
Stephen has over 15 years experience delivering complex electronics and mobile products to end customers. A particular aspect he has enjoyed over his career has been the variety, from setting up manufacturing lines for new products, rolling out national telecoms infrastructure, to integrating new products from acquisition and delivering major software suites to market. In his most recent role at ARM he has been managing the operations of the Office of the CTO.
VP Engineering - Christian Reis (Kiko)
Kiko has been active in Linux and open source for 12 years, and has managed software development teams for at least that long. He has worked on a broad set of projects, from telephony switches to high-profile websites to ERP systems. His focus on the last 8 years has been on tools for open source development, acting as manager of the 30-person strong Launchpad.net team for 5 years. Kiko has a MSc in Software Engineering from USP and lives in Brazil.
VP Member Services - Joe Bates
As Vice President of Member Services Joe is responsible for the success of Linaro's members,
overseeing Linaro's support and services strategy and operations including the direct management
of all Linaro member services functions, engagements and Landing Teams.Joe has over 20 years
of experience and a hands-on style building and leading exceptional services, support and sales
teams that insure customer success and consistently deliver business results at leading technology
companies such as Progress Software, BEA Systems, Onesource Information, Object Design and
SavaJe Technologies. Joe resides with his family in the Boston area.
Marketing Director - Steve Taylor
Steve is responsible for promoting Linaro value and growing the ecosystem. With over 20 years experience in technology and over 15 of those spent working in Asia, Steve’s career prior to Linaro splits into four areas: software marketing from start-up to pre-IPO, world-leading Taiwanese ODM hardware marketing and sales, online media development for a high-tech daily newspaper, and corporate communications. Fluent in spoken Chinese and rusty in Postscript, Pascal, ASP, typography and color science, Steve has always enjoyed working to help technology companies communicate clearly. Steve resides with his family in Cambridge, UK.