Governing Board

• Manages Sub-GHz  Product Lines at  Silicon Labs  including Wi-SUN, Z-Wave, Amazon Sidewalk, and proprietary solutions.
• Serves on the Wi-SUN and Z-Wave Alliance Director Boards.
• Over 20 years of leadership, business, and technical expertise in Embedded Systems, RF/Wireless Communication, and IoT.
• Previous positions include  Director Applications Engineering at Telit, Senior Manager of RF Marketing at NI, and Engineering Manager at Rohde & Schwarz.

Alexey Brodkin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Synopsys, where he drives development of low-level run-time software for ARC processors. Alexey has been working with embedded systems for years starting from 8-bit MCUs and gradually shifting to high-performance multi-core 32- & 64-bit CPUs. He is the ARC architecture custodian at U-Boot bootloader, the co-maintainer of Linux kernel port for ARC, as well as a casual contributor to some other open source projects that he uses in his professional affairs. Today, with the increased complexity of deeply embedded systems, which require the use of more complicated software, Alexey applies his knowledge and experience with software tools and Linux development to the Zephyr RTOS.

David Brown is a member of the Linaro Vertical Technologies Group, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT and embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He is currently the Security Chair for the Zephyr Project, and a maintainer for the MCUboot secure bootloader.

John is Global Ecosystem Lead at Product Enablement & Ecosystem in the Embedded Processing Products Group of Renesas Electronics.

He has over thirty years of business experience in software, electronics and semiconductor industries. He joined Dialog Semiconductor as a Program Manager in 2015, which Renesas acquired in 2021. Previously was Product Development Director at Citrix, CEO at Analogies, served for about 7 years at Intel in several engineering, marketing and management roles, and as Business Development Manager in GiGA and Synergy Systems.

Sunil Bhasin is a Software Engineering Manager at Google, within the ChromeOS division. His experience encompasses various domains, including system software, microprocessor architecture, and machine learning. Throughout his career, Sunil has successfully led product development teams at both Intel and Google, contributing to the successful market launches of products targeting the data center, machine-learning workloads, laptop, and smartphone segments.