Leadership and oversight

Chris Aniszczyk brings more than 20 years experience as The Linux Foundation’s VP of Developer Relations, CTO of CNCF and serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI).

His work is focused on working with developer community to advance open source projects at scale. Previously Aniszczyk served as Twitter’s head of open source, where he led a team of developer advocates and was responsible for Twitter’s open source engineering, strategy and culture. He has also contributed to Gentoo/Fedora Linux and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Java Community Process Executive Committee. An engineer by trade, Aniszczyk brings a passion for both open source and community development to the organization.​

A mindful polyglot, Vincent Batts has spent the last 15 years participating in the Linux and open source community.

Presently involved on the Open Containers Initiative as a maintainer and on the technical board, as well as a maintainer on the appc/spec. An ongoing member on Slackware Linux’s Core Team, a past maintainer on the Docker project, as well as the Go compiler for Fedora and Red Hat. He is currently working on all things container architecture in Red Hat’s Office of Technology.

Phil is an open source leader and cloud native expert within IBM Cloud’s Office of the CTO.

Phil is an open source contributor and maintainer for Docker’s Moby project, a maintainer for the CNCF containerd project, and a contributor to the OCI runc/libcontainer spec implementation. Phil also sits on the Moby Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and has been actively involved in Linux and open source for 15 years.