Governing Board | CNCF

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The CNCF Governing Board (GB) is responsible for marketing and other business oversight and budget decisions for the CNCF.
The GB does not make technical decisions for the CNCF other than working with the TOC to set the overall scope for the CNCF. The GB meets 3 to 5 times a year. Read the minutes from past meetings. The GB currently consists of these representatives:
Jan Melén is an expert in networking, open-source software, and cloud technologies, with a career spanning over two decades. He is a staunch advocate for Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) adoption within Ericsson and the broader community he engages with.
Jan has served as a Research Leader for Cloud Research, driving innovations in cloud computing. Since 2019, he has led a team dedicated to CNCF open-source projects, contributing significantly to Ericsson’s Kubernetes distribution, and fostering an “upstream-first” culture within the company. He now oversees Ericsson’s open-source contributions and coordinates collaborations with CNCF projects. With his technical expertise and leadership, Jan aims to support CNCF’s mission and strengthen the global cloud-native ecosystem.
Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes release lead, and Helm charts maintainer, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing to software that addresses key challenges in the Cloud Native ecosystem.
Alena is a software engineer at Apple, working on cloud infrastructure services. Prior to joining Apple, Alena was one of the founding engineers at Rancher Labs. She also served as CNCF TOC in 2020-2022.
Bill is Director of Huawei’s Open Source and Developer Department and also serves as Huawei’s Chief Open Source Liaison Officer. In this role, he is for responsible for using open source to build industrial ecosystems, expand industrial spaces, and build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment.
Dilpreet Bindra is the Senior Director of Engineering for the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division at Broadcom, where he leads the delivery of runtime platforms, automation, and modern cloud-native architectures. He is a passionate advocate for bridging the gap between developer agility and enterprise IT governance, with a current focus on integrating Kubernetes and Private AI infrastructure into enterprise environments.
A seasoned engineering leader, Dilpreet’s expertise spans both hardware and software systems. Prior to his long tenure shaping core VMware technologies—including ESXi and vCenter—he held software and hardware engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and HP. Within the open-source community, he actively champions Broadcom’s Platinum membership in the CNCF and drives continuous upstream collaboration.
Dilpreet holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University. Outside of his engineering work, he is a basketball player, hiker, pickleball player, and dedicated father.
Erin is currently a Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA working on the intersection of Kubernetes and AI. Prior to this role she was the Director of Emerging Technologies and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat in the Office of the CTO. Erin was previously an Apple Cloud Services Engineer at Apple. Erin is a Kubernetes contributor and an Apache Ambari committer.
Frank is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience building and leading engineering organizations. He is Vice President of Engineering and Operations at HAProxy Technologies, where he leads the global teams that build and operate HAProxy One, the modern application delivery and security platform behind some of the world’s highest-traffic applications.
At HAProxy Technologies, Frank oversees the engineering roadmap and global operations behind mission-critical software trusted by enterprises worldwide. He works directly with HAProxy’s largest customers, particularly in financial services, the public sector, and high-scale digital platforms such as ad tech, gaming, and e-commerce, on running HAProxy across Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. That experience keeps the roadmap aligned with real-world needs and the evolving cloud-native ecosystem.
Today, Frank is focused on evolving HAProxy’s products, from the open-source load balancer at its heart to the platform built around it, for the next wave of traffic, including AI and agent workloads. He is also growing an engineering culture built on ownership and collaboration. For him, great software is always built by great teams.
Jago leads Kubernetes at Google, including much of the GKE team and various adjacent projects in the Cloud Native and OSS AI Ecosystem space. Recently he has been driving the evolution of Kubernetes as the Distributed Operating System for ML and AI, working closely with end users pushing the art of the possible. Prior to Google, Jago led engineering teams at Nest, Disney Interactive Games, and Playdom. Jago was a founding Chair of SIG Cloud Provider and helped launch the Kubernetes Conformance Program.
Jeremy is the VP of technical community and open source at Datadog, where he’s responsible for developer advocacy, training, documentation, technical writing, multiple engineering teams, and the open source programs office. An ardent but realistic open source advocate with a pragmatic approach, he is the founder of LinuxQuestions.org, which is one of the largest independent open source communities on the web. An early podcaster, he’s currently a presenter on Bad Voltage. He’s also on the board of the Linux Fund. Before joining Datadog Jeremy ran a consultancy helping organizations implement open source programs, find viable open source business models, and grow technical communities. He’s spoken at a variety of conferences, had a column in Linux Magazi