John Zannos is Vice President of Cloud Alliances and Ecosystem at Canonical. He is responsible for execution of the Ubuntu Cloud Platform business, ecosystem, partnerships, alliances and Telecom strategy. During his career John has lead business and technology efforts around cloud computing, telecom, utility computing, hosting, application management, disaster recovery, security, unified communications, and content distribution networks. Prior to working at Canonical, he held technology leadership positions at HP, IVIA, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, Boston University and the US EPA. During his time at Canonical and HP he has worked in the Telecom industry focused on cloud, VNF, SDN and NFV. John is a member of the Board of Directors of the OpenStack, OPNFV and OpenPOWER foundations; his interest is to ensure an open and thriving technology ecosystem that drives innovation and collaboration. He now lives in the Boston area with his family.