Andrea Gallo is CEO of RISC-V International. Before joining  RISC-V as VP of Technology, Gallo worked in leadership roles at Linaro for over a decade as Vice President of Business Development, driving the company’s membership acquisition strategy and previously managing the Linaro Datacenter and Cloud, Home, Mobile, Networking, IoT, and Embedded Segment Groups and underlying open source collaborative projects within the Arm ecosystem. Before Linaro, Gallo was a fellow at STMicroelectronics, where he led the optimization of hardware-software architectures for new smartphone and telecommunication ICs. He also served on the board of directors for CHAOSS, a Linux Foundation project focused on the health of open source communities.