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About Linaro

At Linaro, we represent a global community of engineers, developers, and technology enthusiasts dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible with Arm-based technologies.

Since 2010, we have played a pivotal role in shaping the Arm ecosystem, fostering collaboration, standardization, and optimization to drive innovation and accelerate product deployment.
Collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do at Linaro.

We work closely with industry leaders, open-source communities, and technology partners to co-create, standardize, and optimize solutions that drive innovation and enable seamless integration across diverse platforms and environments.

Linaro is about

Linaro is about joining together expertise, innovation, open standards and community

Board of Directors

Li Gong

Chief Executive Officer at Linaro

Li is a globally experienced technologist and executive, with deep background in computer science, research and product development, and open source technologies. He has worked in senior leadership roles extensively in the US and in Asia, having served as President and COO at Mozilla Corporation, General Manager at Microsoft, as well as Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Distinguished Scientist at SRI International. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and received a PhD from University of Cambridge. In 1994 he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize given by the IEEE Communications Society for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE.”
Rob Booth

Chief Operating Officer at Linaro

Rob has a wealth of operational, commercial and financial experience gained in the Technology and Life Science sectors, in the UK and internationally, in environments characterized by rapid growth and change. He has a healthy mix of blue-chip multinational discipline, from holding senior positions in SmithKline, General Electric and Pharmacia, and entrepreneurial flexibility and resourcefulness gained from his experience as CEO and CFO of several Cambridge UK start-ups, which included taking Tadpole Technology plc public and being a joint-founder of Synomics, a Bioinformatics software engineering company. Rob is passionate about helping build companies, generating maximum value from scarce resources and mentoring.
Mark Hambleton

Board member for Arm and Chairman

Mark Hambleton is vice president of Open Source Software at ARM. Mark joined ARM in 2014 and took over leading the open source software group soon after. Within this role, Mark leads the system software teams chartered with driving Arm’s leadership in open source and has been responsible for the software engineering relationship with Linaro. Prior to joining Arm, Mark was a member of the Linaro TSC representing Broadcom and prior to Broadcom was the Head of Core Systems and a Distinguished Architect at Nokia in their Smart Devices group.Mark has been working with open source technologies for approaching 20 years and in the Arm ecosystem for more than 10, and involved with Linaro at various levels for over 5 years.
Jonathan Cameron

Board member for HiSilicon

Jonathan leads the ARM server kernel team at Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd. based in Cambridge, UK. The UK team works alongside ARM64 Solutions within HiSilicon, to provide upstream kernel support for Kunpeng server SoCs. A recent personal focus has been on CCIX, taking an active role in the CCIX Consortium’s TSC, SW and Protocol working groups. Jonathan has a PhD in Information Engineering from Cambridge University. It was there, during a Post Doc on wireless sensor platforms, that he first encountered the upstream kernel and he subsequently developed the IIO kernel subsystem which he has now maintained for 10+ years. He takes a particular interest in encouraging new contributors to the upstream kernel.
Sandeep Singhai

Board member for qualcomm

Sandeep Singhai is Senior Director of Engineering at qualcomm Innovation Center where he has held various leadership positions in the area of power and performance on mobile SoCs, IoT, project engineering, large scale software management and product commercialization. He current leads the Linux and Android HLOS engineering team responsible for delivering vertically integrated software solutions across qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets, commercialized on over billion mobile devices. Sandeep has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless and IoT industry and he holds 10 patents in the area of data communications, broadcast systems and multimedia. He has a Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Todd Kjos

Board member for Google

Todd Kjos is a technical lead for the Android Kernel Team at Google. He maintains AOSP common kernels and is a Linux maintainer for the binder driver. He also leads the development of Android kernel scheduling and DVFS. Previously he worked on x86 and Itanium server enablement and Itanium virtualization.

The Executive Team

Li Gong

Chief Executive Officer at Linaro

Li is a globally experienced technologist and executive, with deep background in computer science, research and product development, and open source technologies. He has worked in senior leadership roles extensively in the US and in Asia, having served as President and COO at Mozilla Corporation, General Manager at Microsoft, as well as Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Distinguished Scientist at SRI International. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and received a PhD from University of Cambridge. In 1994 he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize given by the IEEE Communications Society for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE.”
Rob Booth

Chief Operating Officer at Linaro

Rob has a wealth of operational, commercial and financial experience gained in the Technology and Life Science sectors, in the UK and internationally, in environments characterized by rapid growth and change. He has a healthy mix of blue-chip multinational discipline, from holding senior positions in SmithKline, General Electric and Pharmacia, and entrepreneurial flexibility and resourcefulness gained from his experience as CEO and CFO of several Cambridge UK start-ups, which included taking Tadpole Technology plc public and being a joint-founder of Synomics, a Bioinformatics software engineering company. Rob is passionate about helping build companies, generating maximum value from scarce resources and mentoring.
Grant Likely

Chief Technical Officer at Linaro

Grant Likely is Linaro’s CTO and a 25-year Open Source and Linux communities experienced representative. He’s contributed to transform embedded devices, define software standards, and championing security, scalability and maintainability of embedded Linux devices through SystemReady IR program. As a Linux developer, he expanded Arm’s hardware support with Devicetree. Grant’s leadership extends to chairing the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board and actively participating to developer and industry conferences.
Tim Benton

VP of Engineering

Tim has over 30 years experience in Software Engineering in a variety of roles and companies, with phone and embedded being a strong theme throughout. After university, Tim worked in several startups before picking one (STNC) that was bought by Microsoft, where he spent 12 years in both the UK and US, leading teams and working closely with OEM and Mobile Operator partners to bring up and ship new hardware. After a stint in consulting building IoT solutions and helping companies turn around their engineering teams, Tim moved to Arm in 2017 where, as Senior Director of the Open Source Software Group, he was responsible for the 250 engineers in that team, and worked closely with Linaro on various projects and as a committee member. In 2020 Tim led several teams at Facebook tackling some of the key platform initiatives in the integrity space. Tim has a keen interest in how to manage teams and build software efficiently - and how different companies achieve this.

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About Linaro

Collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do at Linaro.

Linaro is about

Board of Directors

Li Gong

Rob Booth

Mark Hambleton

Jonathan Cameron

Sandeep Singhai

Todd Kjos

The Executive Team

Li Gong

Rob Booth

Grant Likely

Tim Benton

Ready to embark on a journey of innovation and collaboration with Linaro?