Pete Kronowitt is a software strategist in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center and develops and manages the worldwide program for Linux operating system vendors. Pete has 20 years in the high-tech sector, with IBM, Xircom, and more than twelve years with Intel. He has led global teams for market and platform roadmap development in the worldwide channel and directed software ecosystem relationships for new Intel platform introductions. Peter has held positions as board observer at JBoss, was a founding and Steering Committee member of Open Business Readiness Rating, and was Steering Committee vice chair for the Open Source Development Lab Desktop Linux Working Group. Pete also participates on several open source companies’ advisory boards.