Open Mainframe Project Welcomes Peter Wassel and Jeff Cherrington to Governing Board
Open Mainframe Project is excited to announce two new members of the Governing Board: Peter Wassel, Director of Product Management for Mainframe DevOps solutions at Broadcom Inc., and Jeff Cherrington, Vice President, Product Management, System Z at Rocket Software. Last year, Open Mainframe Project had more than 1,240 contributors engage with the more than 20 projects and working groups. The project is committed to keeping this momentum going this year.
The Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project plays a key role in leading the ecosystem and continuing to grow it. It supports the technical community, overseeing the fiduciary aspects of the project, helping provide direction and leadership, and being advocates of the technologies being developed within their organizations and with their customers and partners. Platinum members ADP, Broadcom, IBM, Rocket Software and SUSE appoint representatives to serve on the Governing Board alongside the elected Silver and Academic Institution member representatives and the Chairperson of the Technical Advisory Council (TAC).
Peter and Jeff join other Governing Board members including SUSE’s Alan Clark, East Carolina University Professor Dr. Cameron Seay, Marist College’s Harry Williams, Vicom Infinity’s Len Santalucia, Citi’s Martin Kennedy, Micro Focus’ Misty Decker, Citi’s Phil Tully, and ADP’s Steve Conger.
About the Open Mainframe Project
The Open Mainframe Project was founded in 2015, as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment. Open Source is the collective thread within leading organizations that look to leverage their technology infrastructure as a competitive advantage. The mainframe design principles of security, stability, scalability, and performance are important to these leading organizations, and having the mainframe interoperable in a hybrid infrastructure enables leading organizations to realize its benefits. Open Mainframe Project believes this is best achieved as a community through open source.