Eclipse Foundation AISBL Board of Directors

Florian Bankoley is the Chief Digital Officer of Bosch Mobility, leading the transformation of one of the world's largest automotive suppliers into a software- and data-driven powerhouse. Appointed in May 2024, Florian drives Bosch Mobility’s digital and IT strategy with a focus on enterprise transformation, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), mobility services, and scalable cloud-native platforms.

Florian Bankoley was born on March 11th, 1980 and spent the first half of his childhood in Lomé/Togo. He started his studies in economics at the University of Bayreuth/Germany before completing his Master's degree in European Management at the ESCP business school after stations in Paris, Oxford and Berlin. Florian Bankoley is married and has two children.

Bryan Che is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei. There, he leads Huawei’s vision and strategy across its overall businesses and portfolio, which spans mobile and consumer electronics, telecommunications, enterprise IT, and cloud.

Bryan has tremendous experience building new enterprise businesses and open source technologies. Prior to joining Huawei in China, Bryan spent over 15 years at Red Hat in the US, where he was the general manager of their cloud business and also led overall product strategy across the company. As an American expat employed in China who has traveled 3 million miles to over 40 countries, Bryan has worked extensively with many customers and partners around the world.

Bryan graduated with his Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from MIT.

Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ZettaScale Technology.

At ZettaScale he is working with a world-class team to change the landscape of distributed computing. Angelo and the ZettaScale team are working hard to bring to every connected human and machine the unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute, and store — anywhere, at any scale, efficiently and securely.

Angelo has been an active member and contributor in the Open Source community for three decades! He was the single-handed author of the first open source real-time Java compiler jRate. He has contributed the monad/functors Apero library to OCaml and implemented the real-time extensions to the TAO ORB in early 2000. Angelo single-handedly wrote SimD, an innovative OMG DDS C++ API that eventually was adopted as the new standard DDS mapping for C++. He has contributed a Scala API for DDS and a Scala library of distributed algorithms called Dada. In recent years, Angelo started, and still leads, the Eclipse Zenoh project. He co-wrote the first implementation in OCaml and heavily contributed to the early days of the Rust rewrite.

In addition, to the Open Source contributions, Angelo is recognised as a world's top expert in edge/fog computing and a well-known researcher in the area of high-performance and large-scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications in referred journals, conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.

Tim deBoer is a senior developer experience architect, currently working across several teams including Podman Desktop, Dev Spaces, and Red Hat's IDE extensions. Tim has over 25 years of experience building developer tools from IDEs to runtime CLIs, and is passionate about improving developer's lives through useful and usable tools.

Hendrik Ebbers is a Java Champion, a member of JSR expert groups, and JavaOne Rockstar. He is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups and at conferences worldwide. Hendrik is a member of the Jakarta WG and the Adoptium WG. In 2022 Hendrik founded OpenElements to positively impact open source software and the open source community. The main goal of OpenElements is to strengthen open collaboration. For Hendrik, this includes helping companies to use and introduce more OSS by supporting them to set up an open source programming office (OSPO) or providing custom consulting for open source projects like Eclipse Adoptium. Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik contributes to other OSS. He is a core committer of the Hedera Hashgraph, the only open source public ledger written in Java. Here, Hendrik helps Hedera and SwirldsLabs create secure, fast, and reliable components using open source standards, components, and well-known workflows.

James Eggleston works for the European Space Agency, at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. He is the Head of Data Systems Infrastructure Section in the Mission Operations Data Systems Division.

James’ section is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of Ground Data Systems infrastructure for Mission Operations, which includes software for Spacecraft Monitoring and Control, Mission Planning, Data Analytics and Distribution, Mission Simulation and Mission Preparation, as well as supporting the processes and tooling required to create and deliver the solutions for internal customers and ESA member states. The current tool stack involves the use of many open-source products, including Eclipse’s projects such as RCP, RAP, EMF, XText, Sirius, and others.

ESA shapes and develops the space capability of its Member States, necessarily demanding inclusion of new features and technologies – which can conflict with the mission desires of re-using a stable and flight proven infrastructure that is available for decades. The use of open-source solutions is a key enabler to ensure long term availability and great stability for the ESA systems.

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects for international-scale companies in a range of industries including Automotive, Finance, Medical, and IoT. Headquartered in Manchester, UK, Codethink has pioneered software industry thinking around concepts of trustable software, with a view to improving the quality of software engineering for societal good. Example customers include Arm, Bloomberg, BMW, Bosch, JLR, John Deere, Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Volkswagen, and Tesla.

As a former executive at Motorola, Global Technologist at Ford Motor Company, and a consulting and startup veteran, John led or participated in teams that built many of the innovations we see today in connected vehicles on the ground and in the air.

John is the best-selling author of The Zero Dollar Car, a former adjunct professor at University of Notre Dame, as well as a former translator in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

John can be found online @ www.johntellis.com

Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz Group AG and its IT subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation (MBTI). A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads MBTI’s Open Source Program Office, and is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence.

In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein's birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Sébastien Gérard is director of research at CEA and he is leading the LISE laboratory (Laboratory of Model Driven Engineering for Embedded Systems) at CEA LIST. Working on research issues related to complex and critical system and software design for more than 15 years, his research interests include correct-by-construction specification and design of complex systems, model-based engineering of complex systems, and visual modeling language engineering. He is the CEA representative at Object Management Group (OMG) for more than 15 years. In particular, he is the chair of the MARTE standardization task force. He is also leading the open source project, Papyrus, the UML modeling tools of Eclipse.

In 1995, he has a diploma in mechanics and aeronautics from the ENSMA high-school, in 2000 he obtained a PhD diploma in Computer Science from the Evry university and in 2013 he got his “habilitation à diriger des recherches” diploma in the domain of computer science from the Orsay Univiersity.

Dr. Robert Hilbrich works as a manager for simulation and modeling at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin, Germany. He is a computer scientist and started his research career in the field of developing safety-critical real-time systems at the Fraunhofer research institutes FIRST and FOKUS. Since he joined the German Aerospace Center in 2015, he is responsible for the development of the traffic simulation suite Eclipse SUMO. In 2019 Robert also founded a startup, the Consultancy for Engineers GmbH, where he is employed as managing director in addition to his role at the German Aerospace Center.

Etienne Juliot is co-founder and vice president of Obeo, a software editor focused on Model Driven solutions. He is a senior software architect with a strong experience in IT and embedded systems architecture. He is involved in several Eclipse projects (Sirius, Acceleo, EMF Compare, SCA, UML Generators, Mylyn, ...) and is a steering committee member for PolarSys.

Finally, Etienne manages international and strategic collaborations with large companies on system engineering and enterprise architecture needs. Follow @ejuliot on Twitter.

Kenji Kazumura is Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited in Japan. After more than five years experience of the compiler development he has been working with Java for the enterprise mission critical systems. Now he is in charge of Fujitsu middleware products such as Interstage Application Server.

He has a lot of experience to optimize the several huge enterprise applications, specifically in the field of mobile communication and financial service, in order to run with high performance and reliability. These systems contribute a great deal to the social infrastructures in Japan. He is also now working to make the cloud environment be more useful with the container and microservices architecture technologies.

Matthew Khouzam has been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and has been a committer on Eclipse projects for 10 years, with almost 5,000 reviews to his name. He is the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX, Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace Compass Incubator. Matthew is also co-lead of the CDT.cloud project. He is a technology enthusiast, especially in the field of performance engineering. In the copious amounts of free time he has left, he is a husband, a father, and enjoys cooking, biking and woodworking. He is also a budding doodler and has been co-developing a game in his remaining spare time.

Matthew has worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and small companies as well as university research labs.

Finally, he is a great big nerd. He will gladly broach any subject if the other side brings enthusiasm.

Shelley is a software engineer at Red Hat. She is a PMC member at Eclipse Adoptium and serves as project lead and committer on several Eclipse projects. She is deeply committed to create environments where everyone has opportunities to learn and grow. A great deal of her time is spent ensuring the projects she is responsible for are flourishing, which includes actively engaging new and first-time open source contributors.

Dr. Johannes Matheis is a Senior Director at Vector Informatik GmbH, a company supporting manufacturers and suppliers in the automotive and related industries with tools, software, and services for developing embedded systems. He currently leads the product area Platform & Base and the System Architecture team of PREEvision. Johannes graduated with a diploma in Computer Science in 2004, and while working as a developer at the start-up aquintos he subsequently completed his PhD at KIT (Karlsruher Institute for Technology). His areas of special interest include "model-based software engineering" and software development in Java. Since September 2021 he has served as a steering committee member on the Eclipse IDE WG.

Ed Merks leads the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and co-leads the Eclipse Modeling project along with Rich Gronback from Borland.  He is a coauthor of the authoritative book EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework which is nearing completion of a second edition. He is interested in all aspects of Eclipse modeling and its applications.  He is well recognized for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year.  He is also an active blogger.  He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser Univeristy.  His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.

Dr. Tom Ritter has been Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS since 2019. His main areas of interest are model-driven software engineering, the development of software tools, software development processes, infrastructures for tool integration and the consideration of quality throughout the entire development and life cycle of a system. Tom Ritter also participated in standardization activities and is co-author of books on components and services. He regularly provides his expertise in lectures and seminars as well as at conferences and workshops.

Dr. Ian Robinson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Application Platform, which includes IBM’s Java, Liberty and WebSphere technologies. He has more than 30 years’ experience working in distributed enterprise computing across product development, open standards, and open source. Ian is a steering committee member of the Jakarta EE WG and has IBM team members participating in numerous Eclipse runtime and tools projects including MicroProfile, Adoptium, OpenJ9, Equinox, OSGi and Eclipse JDT.

Matthias is a product owner and open source enthusiast. He leads the EGit and JGit projects and contributes to Gerrit Code Review. He also worked on Spark and Kafka and recently started contributing to Gardener (https://github.com/gardener) enabling Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters on a large scale. He is also a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Matthias works as a product owner for SAP Cloud Platform and leads its git team.

He holds a PhD and diploma degree in Experimental Physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Stephen R. Walli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Office of the CTO

Stephen is a principal program manager working in the Azure team at Microsoft. Prior to that he was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Stephen has been a technical executive, a founder, a writer, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for 25+ years. He blogs about open source and software business at "Once More unto the Breach", opensource.com, and on Medium.

James (Jim) Wright is a well-known software architect and attorney who has been working in and around open source for 20 years. Jim is the author of the Universal Permissive License and has been with Oracle since 2009, where he currently serves as Chief Architect, Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance, and Alliances.

Before his time at Oracle, Jim was in private practice at Sidley Austin, where he handled a wide variety of technology transactional matters as well as patent litigation. Jim is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and in the decade before starting legal practice, he worked in engineering and management capacities at a variety of different IT enterprises.