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RISC-V
Director of Marketing
RISC-V
Program Manager
RISC-V
CEO
RISC-V
Chairman of the Board
RISC-V
CTO
RISC-V
Technical Program Manager
Western Digital
Senior Director RISC-V Ecosystem, ML Business Development
Kim McMahon is the Director of Marketing of RISC-V International. She comes to RISC-V with a deep background in marketing for open source and technology. She has spent her career with companies such as SGI, Cray, VMware, and the {code} Team at Dell, where she honed her love for HPC, open source, and cloud native. Working with startups, large companies, and all in-between, she brings her expertise in marketing strategy to spread awareness through content and digital platforms. Kim has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado. She lives in Winter Park, Colorado and enjoys hiking, skiing, and outdoor activities with her two labradors Coal and Connor.
Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon is a program manager for RISC-V International. Jefro comes from an open source background starting at Cygnus Support in the early 1990s, and has spent most of his career as a technical writer and developer focused on hardware and embedded systems. He served as community manager and board chair for the Yocto Project from 2011 to 2018 while working at Intel, where he also helped launch the Zephyr Project and Project ACRN, and has also worked with Kata Containers, LF Energy, and the BeagleBoard Foundation. He has been involved with the Embedded Linux Conference since 2008 and speaks at several open source conferences annually. Jefro holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Calista Redmond is the CEO of RISC-V International with a mission to expand and engage RISC-V stakeholders, compel industry adoption, and increase visibility and opportunity for RISC-V within and beyond RISC-V International. Prior to RISC-V International, Calista held a variety of roles at IBM, including Vice President of IBM Z Ecosystem where she led strategic relationships across software vendors, system integrators, business partners, developer communities, and broader engagement across the industry. Focus areas included execution of commercialization strategies, technical and business support for partners, and matchmaker to opportunities across the IBM Z and LinuxOne community. Calista’s background includes building and leading strategic business models within IBM’s Systems Group through open source initiatives including OpenPOWER, OpenDaylight, and Open Mainframe Project. For OpenPOWER, Calista was a leader in drafting the strategy, cultivating the foundation of partners, and nurturing strategic relationships to grow the org from zero to 300+ members. While at IBM, she also drove numerous acquisition and divestiture missions, and several strategic alliances. Prior to IBM, she was an entrepreneur in four successful start-ups in the IT industry. Calista holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.
Krste Asanović is a professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998 then joined the faculty at MIT, receiving tenure in 2005, before returning to join the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2007. His main research areas are computer architecture, VLSI design, parallel programming and operating system design. He is currently director of the UC Berkeley ASPIRE lab tackling the challenge of improving computational efficiency now that transistor scaling is ending. He leads the free RISC-V ISA project at UC Berkeley, serves as chairman of RISC-V International, and cofounded SiFive Inc. to support commercial use of RISC-V processors. He received the NSF CAREER award, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow.
Before RISC-V international Mark Himelstein was the President of Heavenstone, Inc. which concentrated on Strategic, Management, and Technology Consulting providing hardware and software product architecture, analysis, mentoring and interim management. Previously, Mark started Graphite Systems, Inc (acquired by EMC) where he was the VP of Engineering and CTO developing large Analytics Appliances using highly integrated FLASH memory. Prior to Graphite, Mark held positions as the CTO of Quantum Corp, Vice President of Solaris development engineering at Sun Microsystems and other technical management roles at Apple, Infoblox, and MIPS.
Mark has a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Math from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a masters degree in Computer Science from University of California Davis/Livermore. In addition to publishing numerous technical papers and holding many patents, he is the author of the book “100 Questions to Ask Your Software Organization”.
Stephano Cetola is a technical program manager for RISC-V International. He has worked on and managed numerous open source initiatives in software and hardware. Before joining the RISC-V team, Stephano was employed at Intel contributing to the Yocto Project building embedded Linux distros and working on TianoCore, an open source implementation of UEFI. Along with working at RISC-V, he helps to manage the Confidential Computing Consortium and is involved in research at Portland State University focusing on Trusted Execution Environments. Throughout his career Stephano has been a tireless proponent of open source software, firmware, and hardware.
RISC-V
Director of Marketing
RISC-V
CEO
Western Digital
Senior Director RISC-V Ecosystem, ML Business Development
Kim McMahon is the Director of Marketing of RISC-V International. She comes to RISC-V with a deep background in marketing for open source and technology. She has spent her career with companies such as SGI, Cray, VMware, and the {code} Team at Dell, where she honed her love for HPC, open source, and cloud native. Working with startups, large companies, and all in-between, she brings her expertise in marketing strategy to spread awareness through content and digital platforms. Kim has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado. She lives in Winter Park, Colorado and enjoys hiking, skiing, and outdoor activities with her two labradors Coal and Connor.
Calista Redmond is the CEO of RISC-V International with a mission to expand and engage RISC-V stakeholders, compel industry adoption, and increase visibility and opportunity for RISC-V within and beyond RISC-V International. Prior to RISC-V International, Calista held a variety of roles at IBM, including Vice President of IBM Z Ecosystem where she led strategic relationships across software vendors, system integrators, business partners, developer communities, and broader engagement across the industry. Focus areas included execution of commercialization strategies, technical and business support for partners, and matchmaker to opportunities across the IBM Z and LinuxOne community. Calista’s background includes building and leading strategic business models within IBM’s Systems Group through open source initiatives including OpenPOWER, OpenDaylight, and Open Mainframe Project. For OpenPOWER, Calista was a leader in drafting the strategy, cultivating the foundation of partners, and nurturing strategic relationships to grow the org from zero to 300+ members. While at IBM, she also drove numerous acquisition and divestiture missions, and several strategic alliances. Prior to IBM, she was an entrepreneur in four successful start-ups in the IT industry. Calista holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.
