OSDL Extends Leadership Team with Appointment of Chief Financial Officer

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux®, today announced the appointment of Mike Temple to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Temple brings more than 25 years experience in finance and operations to the OSDL executive team, including 15 years in CFO and general management roles and 10 years in public accounting practice.

Temple's naming to this new OSDL executive position follows the recent appointment of OSDL's director of Europe, Middle East and Africa. The appointments represent OSDL's ongoing development of its global leadership team.

''Our reach is now global and to achieve our goals we've tapped an experienced finance executive to help us fulfill our mission,'' said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. ''Mike has been successful in finance internationally and in high tech and his background is just what we need to take OSDL to the next level.''

''I look forward to working with OSDL and its members and I'm excited to contribute to their mission of accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise,'' Temple said.

Most recently, Temple was executive vice president and general manager at Bioject, Inc. He has also served as vice president and CFO for Upright Systems, an internet services and software development company, Instromedix, Inc., and the Yoshida Group. Prior to that, Temple was in public accounting practice with the international accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath.

About the Open Source Development LabOSDL - home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 by CA, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC, OSDL is a non-profit organization at the center of Linux supported by a global consortium of more than 60 of the world’s largest Linux customers and IT industry leaders.

OSDL sponsors industry-wide initiatives around Linux in telecommunications, in the enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. The Lab also provides Linux expertise and computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers around the world.

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