The Linux Foundation has

announced the appointment of Ted Ts’o as Chief Technology Officer.
“Ts’o is currently a Linux Foundation fellow, a position he has been in since December 2007. He is one of the most highly regarded members of the Linux and open source community and is known as the first North American kernel developer. Other current and past LF fellows include Steve Hemminger, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tridgell.
Ts’o will be replacing Markus Rex as CTO of the Linux Foundation.”