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About Linaro

In 2010, Linaro was formed to unify a fragmented Arm software ecosystem. Our mission was clear: consolidate the code base to drive innovation on Arm. Today, that vision is a global reality. From Linus Torvalds releasing the kernel on Arm64 hardware to every cloud vendor having an Arm offering, the foundational challenges we set out to tackle have been solved.

As the industry matured, so did we. Linaro has evolved into a Services provider, leveraging our unrivaled Arm expertise to help customers build high-performing, compliant, and sustainable products.

While the way we collaborate has changed, our commitment to the open-source community remains the same. We continue to invest upstream and maintain critical projects, ensuring that every solution we build for our clients also strengthens the broader ecosystem.

Linaro is about

Linaro is about joining together expertise, innovation, open standards and community

Board of Directors

Li Gong
Chief Executive Officer

Li is a globally experienced technologist and executive, with deep background in computer science, research and product development, and open source technologies. He has worked in senior leadership roles extensively in the US and in Asia, having served as President and COO at Mozilla Corporation, General Manager at Microsoft, as well as Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Distinguished Scientist at SRI International. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and received a PhD from University of Cambridge. In 1994 he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize given by the IEEE Communications Society for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE.”
Rob Booth
Chief Operating Officer

Rob has a wealth of operational, commercial and financial experience gained in the Technology and Life Science sectors, in the UK and internationally, in environments characterized by rapid growth and change. He has a healthy mix of blue-chip multinational discipline, from holding senior positions in SmithKline, General Electric and Pharmacia, and entrepreneurial flexibility and resourcefulness gained from his experience as CEO and CFO of several Cambridge UK start-ups, which included taking Tadpole Technology plc public and being a joint-founder of Synomics, a Bioinformatics software engineering company. Rob is passionate about helping build companies, generating maximum value from scarce resources and mentoring.
Tim Benton
Chief Technology Officer

Tim has over 30 years experience in Software Engineering in a variety of roles and companies, with phone and embedded being a strong theme throughout. After university, Tim worked in several startups before picking one (STNC) that was bought by Microsoft, where he spent 12 years in both the UK and US, leading teams and working closely with OEM and Mobile Operator partners to bring up and ship new hardware. After a stint in consulting building IoT solutions and helping companies turn around their engineering teams, Tim moved to Arm in 2017 where, as Senior Director of the Open Source Software Group, he was responsible for the 250 engineers in that team, and worked closely with Linaro on various projects and as a committee member. In 2020 Tim led several teams at Facebook tackling some of the key platform initiatives in the integrity space. Tim has a keen interest in how to manage teams and build software efficiently - and how different companies achieve this.

Ready to embark on a journey of innovation and collaboration with Linaro?

Contact us today to learn more about our services, solutions, and how we can help you achieve your technology goals. Together, let's shape the future of technology and drive positive change in the Arm ecosystem.

About Linaro

Linaro is about

Board of Directors

Li Gong

Rob Booth

Tim Benton

Ready to embark on a journey of innovation and collaboration with Linaro?

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