Executive Director at Linux Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Executive Director at Linux Foundation
- Past
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- Executive Director and President at Free Standards Group
- VP of Marketing at Covalent
- Director of Marketing/Founder at Corio Inc.
- Brand Manager at Western Wireless
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Jim Zemlin’s Summary
Emerging technology executive.
Jim Zemlin’s Specialties:
Enterprise Software, Wireless Telecommunications, Consumer Marketing, Applicaiton Hosting, Software Services, Advertising
Jim Zemlin’s Experience
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Executive Director
Linux Foundation
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, it sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms.
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Executive Director and President
Free Standards Group
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2004 — January 2007 (3 years)
The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards.
Key Free Standards Group projects include the Linux Standard Base (LSB), and OpenI18N, the internationalization initiative. Supported by leaders in the IT industry as well as the open source development community, the Free Standards Group fulfills a critical need to have common behavioral specifications, tools and ABIs across Linux platforms.
A well supported standard for Linux is the necessary component to Linux’s continued success. -
VP of Marketing
Covalent
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
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Director of Marketing/Founder
Corio Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CRIO; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
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Brand Manager
Western Wireless
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WWCA; Telecommunications industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
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Jim Zemlin’s Groups:
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