Speaker – Mr Brian Behlendorf

Mr Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer,
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

Biography

Brian Behlendorf is Chief Technology Officer of the OpenSSF. He is a technologist, executive and leading figure globally in the open source software movement. Brian has dedicated his career to connecting and empowering the free software and open source community to solve hard technology problems and have a positive societal impact. Throughout his career, he has worn many different hats – as a startup company founder, as an advisor to the U.S. government, as a board member at various non-profits and consortia, as a Young Global Leader and CTO of the World Economic Forum, and as an investor.

Brian was previously General Manager of OpenSSF and before that Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation, the open source enterprise blockchain project of The Linux Foundation. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. More recently, Brian was managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm. In 2003, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the Top 100 Innovators in the World under the age of 35.