The Governing Board is the primary decision making forum for SODA foundation and oversees business decisions, budgets, outreach, marketing/events, trademarks, etc.

The Governing Board Representatives

Steven Tan, Chair

Futurewei

VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei where he is responsible for open source strategy and collaboration.

Yuji Yazawa, Vice-Chair

Toyota Motor Corporation

Principal Engineer / Group Manager. Responsible for researching & designing hybrid cloud infrastructure for connected vehicles

Rakesh Jain

IBM

STSM and Researcher - Cloud, IoT, Analytics at IBM Research. Working on setting the strategic vision and technical architecture.

Kei Kusunoki

NTT Communications

Technology Development, Storage Engineer - NTT Communications. He has worked on the storage service/solution for the telecom carrier.

Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam

Intel

Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel. He is responsible for developing software-defined storage strategy, architecture, and technology initiatives.

Yoshiya Eto, Advisor

Fujitsu, Linux Foundation Fellow

Principal Architect Processor System BU, Fujitsu Ltd.

Cheryl Hung, Advisor

Ecosystem at ARM

Sr Director, Ecosystem at ARM

Ji Chen

China Unicom

Storage Architect, China Unicom