Calista Redmond
Calista Redmond is an American executive who was CEO of The RISC-V Foundation. Redmond joined the RISC-V Foundation in March 2019.{{Cite web|date=2019-03-12|title=The RISC-V Foundation Appoints Calista Redmond as Chief Executive Officer|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190312005773/en/The-RISC-V-Foundation-Appoints-Calista-Redmond-as-Chief-Executive-Officer|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en}} Prior to her appointment, she spent 12 years at IBM and was vice president of the IBM Z ecosystem from 2016 to 2019. As part of her work at IBM, Redmond was a director at OpenPOWER and was also involved with OpenDaylight and Open Mainframe Project.{{Cite web|title=Calista Redmond {{!}} Design Automation Conference|url=https://dac.com/market/keynote-risc-v-revolution-and-momentum|access-date=2020-12-15|website=dac.com}} Redmond received her MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 2006 and her BS from Northwestern University in 1996.
RISC-V leadership
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.{{Cite web|date=2020-09-27|title=Will RISC-V be a contender now that Nvidia is buying Arm?|url=https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/27/will-risc-v-be-a-contender-now-that-nvidia-is-buying-arm/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2020-03-01|title=The world is big enough! - Calista Redmond, CEO RISC-V|url=https://www.eenewsembedded.com/content/world-big-enough-calista-redmond-ceo-risc-v|access-date=2020-12-15|website=eeNews Embedded|language=en}}{{Cite web|title='RISC-V is ushering in a new era of silicon design and processor innovation' - Press|url=https://www.hipeac.net/news/6921/risc-v-is-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-silicon-design-and-processor-innovation/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=HiPEAC|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2020-02-05|title=RISC-V: Calista Redmond interview|url=https://architecnologia.es/calista-redmond-of-the-risc-v-exclusive-interview-for-at|access-date=2020-12-15|website=ArchiTecnologia|language=es}} Redmond hosted RISC-V's annual summit in December 2020, partnering with Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Huawei, and ZTE.{{Cite web|date=2020-12-11|title=Week In Review: Design, Low Power|url=https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-design-low-power-124/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=Semiconductor Engineering|language=en-US}} Redmond has marketed RISC-V as an ARM alternative both previous to and following ARM's proposed acquisition by Nvidia.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-11|title=RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/risc-v-grows-globally-as-an-alternative-to-arm-and-its-license-fees/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Dahad|first=Nitin|date=2020-09-18|title=RISC-V speaks on options after Nvidia-Arm news|url=https://www.embedded.com/risc-v-speaks-on-options-after-nvidia-arm-news/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=Embedded.com|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Manners|first=David|date=2019-11-26|title=RISC-V Foundation moves to Switzerland|url=https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/risc-v-foundation-moves-switzerland-2019-11/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=Electronics Weekly|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=RISC-V Foundation headquarters has officially moved to Switzerland - Code World|url=https://www.codetd.com/en/article/9980628|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.codetd.com}}{{Cite news|last=Alper|first=Stephen Nellis, Alexandra|date=2019-11-26|title=U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-insight-idUSKBN1XZ16L|access-date=2020-12-15}}
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