Brian Behlendorf is the former Chief AI Strategist at the Linux Foundation. He was also CTO at the OpenWallet Foundation, an initiative under the Linux Foundation. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Hyperledger at the Linux Foundation.  He was also a Managing Director at Mithril Capital Management.

Brian co-founded and served as the Founding President of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache is one of the leading web server software that is free and open-source, and once held over 50% of the market. Afterwards, Brian was the CTO at the World Economic Forum, where he rebooted a 30 year old legacy environment with open software and open thinking. He also previously served as an advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House from 2009 to 2010. 

Brian is on the Boards of Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and the Filecoin Foundation.