James Kulina
OpenPOWER Foundation
Executive Director
jkulina@linuxfoundation.org
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 seasoned 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 and creator of the OSS Kata Containers project, which was 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.