Deborah Bryant is Senior Director, Open Source Program Office, Office of the CTO at Red Hat where she leads a global team responsible for the company’s stewardship in open source software communities.

Deborah serves on numerous boards where open source is a critical element of their mission. She serves as a board director at the Open Source Initiative and DemocracyLab; on the advisory boards of Open Source Elections Technology Foundation and the OASIS Open Project, and as an advisor to the Brandeis University Open Technology Management program. She is also Red Hat’s representative on the Eclipse Foundation board of directors.

In 2010 Deborah was honored with the ORM Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and for her pioneering advocacy of open standards and the use of open source software in the public sector. Her published research includes the use of open source in cybersecurity in the energy industry and collaborative models for creating software in the public sector.