Governing Board
The Governing Board consists of member representation as well as the TSC Chair. The Board’s responsibilities include:
The Governing Board consists of member representation as well as the TSC Chair. The Board’s responsibilities include:








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.


Keith Short has worked in embedded systems for 20+ years. Keith currently works at Google on ChromeOS and is the technical lead to switch the embedded controller implementation over to Zephyr.


Khasim Syed Mohammed having more than two decades of experience with Open source software is a consistent contributor to various initiatives and projects in open source eco-system. Khasim has contributed to various Linux device drivers and Yocto project for Arm platforms, he is co-founder of beagleboard.org initiative. Before joining TI, Khasim worked at Linaro for more than ten years as Tech-lead for Android and was hands-on with various projects & open source initiatives from Arm, Qualcomm and Google. He now leads a team of open source enthusiasts at TI who are contributing significantly to open source projects in the areas of RTOS, Linux multi-distros, Zephyr, Security and Safety critical applications.





