Governing Board
Our Governing Board is accountable for strategic direction and business governance of Cloud Foundry Foundation, and is composed of business leaders at the world’s leading technology companies. Learn more about Foundation governance.

Paul Fazzone, VMware
Senior Vice President, Tanzu - Cloud Foundry Chairman
Paul Fazzone is Senior Vice President for VMware’s Tanzu R&D team, responsible for the company’s Kubernetes and application modernization products and related open source initiatives. Paul led VMware’s strategy and execution to support the cloud native needs of Enterprise application development and ...

Alan Flower, HCL
CTO for Europe
Alan Flower heads the HCL Cloud Native Labs & Advisory Services business and is also HCL CTO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. A successful entrepreneur and technologist, Alan is deeply passionate about using technology to support the digital transformation of business and driving ...

Jason McGee, IBM Cloud Platform
IBM Fellow, VP and CTO
Jason is currently responsible for the IBM Cloud foundational developer services, including Kubernetes Containers, Functions, MessageHub, Logging, Monitoring, Container Registry, Terraform and Activity Tracker. Jason is also responsible for the technical strategy and architecture for all of IBM’s Cloud Developer Platform. Previously Jason has ...

Bernd Krannich, SAP
Cloud Platform Technical Lead
Bernd Krannich a is Technical Lead at SAP working on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes topics in SAP Cloud Platform. In the Cloud Foundry community, he is working on bringing Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes closer together. During his 20+ years at SAP, Bernd has held ...

Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo drives the rapid innovation and growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to software-defined solutions such as the OpenStack cloud infrastructure, Ceph-based storage, and software-defined networking, as well as container orchestration and Platform as ...

Ryan Johnson, Accenture
Chief Architect and Software Engineering Practice Lead - Cloud Foundry Treasurer
Ryan Johnson is the Chief Architect and Software Engineering Practice Lead for Accenture’s North American Cloud Innovation Centers. As a live long engineer, Ryan is focused on delivering creative solutions to generate business and user value for our customers. Ryan is also the capability ...