I have spent more than 25 years at the operational center of enterprise infrastructure, open source software, and security, building and scaling technology organizations at the moments when the industry was making decisions that would compound for years.

I am CEO of ActiveState, where we help enterprise development teams build on open source software they can trust. Open source is the foundation of nearly all modern software, and securing it at enterprise scale, without slowing the teams that depend on it, is the problem we work on.

Before ActiveState, I was CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, where I guided one of the largest open source cloud platform ecosystems through the critical years of enterprise cloud-native adoption. I then served as CTO at Puppet, leading the engineering and product organization through its acquisition by Perforce. Before that I was CTO at Alembic Technologies, where I led engineering for an enterprise AI platform, working hands-on with the infrastructure behind it. Earlier in my career, at Pivotal, I helped large enterprises make the shift to building and shipping software the modern way.

I serve as a Board Director for Akka, and I invest in early-stage companies building the next layer of enterprise infrastructure.

I write and speak on enterprise infrastructure, open source software, and security. Across every shift I have worked through, the same observation holds: organizations adopt new technology faster than they build the governance to run it well, and closing that gap is an organizational problem, not a tooling one.