The CNCF Governing Board (GB) is responsible for marketing and other business oversight and budget decisions for the CNCF.
The GB does not make technical decisions for the CNCF, other than working with the TOC to set the overall scope for the CNCF. The GB currently consists of these representatives:
Amr Abdelhalem
Fidelity Investments
Amr is the head of cloud platforms at Fidelity.
Aparna Sinha
Google (Chairperson)
Aparna is the Director of Product Management for Kubernetes and Anthos at Google.
Arun Gupta
Apple
Arun Gupta is a Senior Engineering Manager at Apple.
Barry Cooks
DigitalOcean
Barry is DigitalOcean’s Chief Technology Officer.
Bob Wise
Amazon Web Services
Bob Wise is General Manager for Kubernetes at Amazon Web Services.
Brendan O’Leary
GitLab
Brendan is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab.
Bryan Che
Huawei
Bryan is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei.
Chris Wright
Red Hat
Chris is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Red Hat.
Craig McLuckie
VMware
Craig is a VP of research and development at VMware.
Dan Gerrity
Oracle
Dan is the SVP of Developer Services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
John Morello
Palo Alto Networks
John is the VP Product for container and serverless security at Palo Alto Networks.
Kevin Ryan
Arm
Kevin is the Sr. Director of Software Ecosystem Development at Arm.
Lachlan Evenson
Microsoft
Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure.
Li Yi
Alibaba Cloud
Li Yi (Mark), is the Director of Engineering for Container Service at Alibaba Cloud.
Liying Zhang
JD.com
Liying (Vivian) is a product and open source community manager at JD.com.
Liz Rice
Aqua Security (TOC Chair)
Liz is the VP Open Source Engineering at container security specialists Aqua Security.
Matt Klein
Lyft (Developer Seat)
Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy.
Michael Payne
JPMorgan Chase
Michael leads Research & Development for the Platform / Cloud Services team at JPMorgan Chase.
Michelle Noorali
Microsoft (Developer Seat)
Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of Helm.
Niraj Tolia
Kasten
Niraj is the General Manager and President of Kasten (acquired by Veeam).
Rob Esker
NetApp
Rob’s responsible for product & strategy across a variety of cloud services at NetApp.
Ron Lev
Cox Edge Services
Ron is currently the GM of Cox Edge Services and is responsible for developing, incubating, and executing on the company’s Edge/Low Latency strategy.
Ryan van Wyk
AT&T
Ryan van Wyk leads AT&T’s Network Cloud Platform design, development, testing, delivery lifecycle, security compliance and tenant care, D2 compute infrastructure planning and design; as well as software asset lifecycle management for the enterprise.
Shannon Williams
Rancher
Shannon is a co-founder at Rancher Labs.
Stephen Chin
JFrog
Stephen is Head of Developer Relations at JFrog and author of several Java, Embedded, and DevOps titles.
Thomas Hertz
SAP
At SAP, Thomas is the Head of Runtimes & Core which is a part of SAP Cloud Platform.
Tomohiko Tashiro
Fujitsu
Tomohiko is a Senior Director of the Linux development division at Fujitsu.
Vijoy Pandey
Cisco
Vijoy is the VP / CTO of Cloud Platforms and Software at Cisco.
Xin Zhang
Volcano Engine
Xin is the VP of Volcano Engine, previously CEO & co-founder of Caicloud and an ex-Googler.