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RISC-V Executive Team
Calista Redmond
CEO
RISC-V International
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.
Kim McMahon
Director of Visibility & Community Engagement
RISC-V International
Kim McMahon
Director of Visibility & Community Engagement, RISC-V International
Kim McMahon is the Director of Visibility & Community Engagement at 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, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, 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 visibility and community strategies to spread awareness, engage the community, and grow an organization. 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
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”.
Stephano Cetola
Director of Technical Programs
RISC-V International
Stephano Cetola
Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International
Stephano Cetola is the Director of Technical Programs for RISC-V International. He has developed and managed numerous open source initiatives in software and hardware over the course of his 20 year career in technology. Stephano helped to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a Linux Foundation project bringing together hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies and standards. Before joining RISC-V International, Stephano was employed at Intel contributing to Yocto Project embedded Linux systems and working on TianoCore open source firmware. He holds an M.S. ECE from Portland State University where he continues to be involved in research surrounding hardware security and threat modeling.
RISC-V Team
Alicia Daleiden
PR and Social
Racepoint Global (RPG)
Alicia Daleiden is an account director at Racepoint Global (RPG) where she helps to manage the strategic direction of the RISC-V PR program, in addition to overseeing media relations activities and content creation. In her time at RPG, Alicia has worked with a variety of enterprise and startup clients in the silicon industry.
Allison DeLeo
PR & Social
Racepoint Global (RPG)
Allison DeLeo is a senior vice president at Racepoint Global (RPG) where she is responsible for providing strategic counsel to RISC-V and supervising overall account work. She has worked with numerous companies from local startups to international technology giants. Allison has extensive communications and PR experience in enterprise software, silicon and consumer technologies.
Brett Preston
Program Manager
RISC-V International
Brett Preston
RISC-V International
Brett Preston is a program manager for RISC-V International. Along with working at RISC-V, he works on the Zephyr Project. An operations ninja, he focuses on arming others with systems, tools, processes and best practices to make their work more efficient and effective. Brett has been with The Linux Foundation since 2014, working on such projects as AllSeen Alliance, CNCF, and LF Edge. Brett lives in Portland, OR and you’ll usually find him with a coffee in hand.
Deb Giles
Event Manager
RISC-V International
Deb has over fifteen years of event management experience and has been with RISC-V since 2019, overseeing events including RISC-V Roadshows, RISC-V Forums, RISC-V Summit, and RISC-V’s presence at tradeshows around the world. Living in Nashville, Deb spends her free time with her dog, sitting on patios, trying new restaurants, and exploring the area.
Grace Steward
Social and PR
Racepoint Global (RPG)
Grace Steward is an assistant account executive at Racepoint Global (RPG), providing content for RISC-V International’s social media channels. She also supports the organization’s media and analyst relations activities. She has experience working within a diverse set of B2B and B2C industries in the technology space, including telecommunications and electronics.
Jeff Scheel
Technical Program Manager
RISC-V International
Jeff Scheel joined the Linux Foundation in May 2021 as a Technical Program Manager for the RISC-V Foundation. He brings over 30 years experience in the Software Engineering industry, spending most of his career at IBM where he predominantly established, grew, and led Linux for IBM Power Systems. Other experiences included I/O adapter firmware development and logical partitioning (LPARs) for the AS/400. He was a charter member of the OpenPOWER Foundation, serving as the Chair of the System Software Work Group and the Technical Steering Committee.
Jeff holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Davis. He also has work experience with HP and Canonical. He loves open source development and world-wide innovation.
Jenni McGinnis
Program Manager
RISC-V International
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.
Lauren Klug
Social and PR
Racepoint Global (RPG)
Lauren Klug is an account executive at Racepoint Global (RPG), where she helps to manage the RISC-V content program, which includes social posts, blogs, and bylines. She also helps to manage media and analyst relationships for RISC-V. She has experience working with a variety of brands to manage campaigns, launch new products, plan events, and secure speaking and award opportunities.
Megan Lehn
Program Manager
RISC-V International
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.
Thea Aldrich
Marketing Manager
RISC-V International
Thea Aldrich
Marketing Manager, RISC-V International
Thea Aldrich is a marketing manager for RISC-V International where she works to support the visibility and reach of the RISC-V community’s activities. In addition to her work for RISC-V International, Thea is an Ambassador for the Zephyr Project and member of the Linux Foundation Red Team Project Technical Steering Committee. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation Thea worked to support open geospatial and open source for social impact ecosystems.