Calista Redmond

CEO, RISC-V International

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.

Jeffrey Osier-Mixon

Program Manager, RISC-V International

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.

Jenni McGinnis

RISC-V International

Jenni McGinnis is a program manager for RISC-V International and works as a Projects Coordinator at the Linux Foundation. She brings to the team a diverse background in consulting, contract negotiation, training, and event management.  She is a frequent speaker on communication and collaboration through applied comedy skills and is a stand-up comedian in her spare time.  Jenni holds a Masters in Educational Psychology from Florida State University and a Juris Doctor from Duke University.

Kim McMahon

Director of Marketing, RISC-V International

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.

Mark Himelstein

CTO, RISC-V International

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”.

Megan Lehn

Program Manager, RISC-V International

Megan Lehn is a program manager for RISC-V International and works as an Event and Meeting Planner at the Linux Foundation. Megan comes from a diverse hospitality, event marketing and sales background and is excited to join the RISC-V International team.

Stephano Cetola

Technical Program Manager, RISC-V International