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
Xin Zhong
China Unicom
Senior Architect of China Unicom Cloud, China Unicom
Rakesh Jain
IBM
STSM and Researcher - Cloud, IoT, Analytics at IBM Research. Working on setting the strategic vision and technical architecture.
Shinya Hamano
Fujitsu
Manager, Fujitsu. In charge of the planning and development of new IT platform services in the fields of storage, cloud-native, AI, and IoT and open source technologies.
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.
