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Calista Redmond is CEO of The RISC-V Foundation and a longtime tech executive. Redmond joined the RISC-V Foundation in March 2019.[1] Prior to her appointment, she spent 12 years at IBM and was vice president of the IBM Z ecosystem from 2016 to 2019.[1] As part of her work at IBM, Redmond was a director at OpenPOWER and was also involved with OpenDaylight and Open Mainframe Project.[2] Redmond received her MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 2006 and her BS from Northwestern University in 1996.[2]
Redmond has actively led new initiatives for RISC-V since 2019, including developer conferences, partnerships with major tech companies and chip designers, and open source educational outreach.[3][4][5] Among these initiatives is Redmond's work to create the RISC-V partnership with the European Processor Initiative, involving chip research groups across the continent.[6] Redmond hosted RISC-V's annual summit in December 2020, partnering with Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Huawei, and ZTE.[7] Redmond has marketed RISC-V as an ARM alternative both previous to and following ARM's proposed acquisition by Nvidia.[8][9] Redmond also moved the RISC-V Foundation's headquarters from Delaware to Switzerland in 2019 in an effort to promote the economic and political neutrality of the architecture after US politicians raised concerns about the use of RISC-V by Chinese tech companies.[10][11][12]
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