Ganesan Narayanasamy, President
Ganesan Narayanasamy is a technology leader with extensive experience in
technology and business. He is the founder, investor, and Chief Executive
Officer at Object Automation System Solutions Inc. Prior to his current
roles, Ganesan had a distinguished career at IBM, spanning nearly three
decades. At IBM, he held various leadership positions focused on
high-performance computing, chip design, and artificial intelligence. He
was instrumental in driving the OpenPOWER and AI ecosystem initiatives,
emphasizing partner enablement and market development. His work involved
creating training programs for partners and supporting emerging market
opportunities worldwide.
James Kulina, Executive Director
James is Executive Director of the OpenPower Foundation, with over 10 years of open source experience across
hardware, software, and network engineering disciplines.
James brings a passion for open source and is committed to growing OpenPower Foundation’s membership, community, and ecosystem.
He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in enterprise technology and has worked in roles spanning operations,
business development, product management, and engineering.
Previously, James was co-founder and COO at Hyper.sh, an open source cloud-native virtualization startup acquired by Ant Financial.
Prior to that, he led product management in Red Hat’s OpenStack group, and was a product lead on AT&T’s first OpenStack Cloud.
James graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Electrical Engineering and is based in Washington D.C. area.
H. Peter Hofstee, Director
H. Peter Hofstee is a distinguished research staff member at IBM, working in infrastructure development in Austin, TX. Peter has worked at IBM since 1996 and has been associated with power architecture processors and systems for his entire career working in both research and development. He contributed to the first 1GHz CMOS microprocessor, the Cell Broadband Engine processor, used in systems ranging from the Sony PlayStation 3 to the world’s first 1 Petaflop supercomputer. Peter is also an active participant in efforts to create new open source and free architecture-compliant cores. Peter received his education in physics at Groningen University in the Netherlands, and in Computer Science at Caltech where he also taught VLSI and computer science classes prior to joining IBM. Peter has remained active in academia throughout his career, most recently as a part-time professor (now emeritus) at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands.
Lance Albertson, Director
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) and has been involved with many open source projects since 2003. The OSUOSL provides hosting for more than 160 projects, including those of worldwide leaders like Debian Linux, the Linux Foundation and AlmaLinux. The most active organization of its kind, the OSUOSL offers world-class hosting services, professional software development and on-the-ground training for promising students interested in open source management and programming.
