Stephano Cetola works in the Corporate Strategy & Ventures group at Intel supporting the executive office in driving corporate initiatives, including near and long-term strategy, major cross-group decision making and ensuring cross-company alignment. Before returning to Intel he was the Director of Technical Programs for RISC-V at the Linux Foundation. He has developed and managed numerous open source initiatives in software and hardware over the course of his 20 year career in technology. Stephano helped to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a Linux Foundation project bringing together hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies and standards. Stephano also contributed to the Yocto Project embedded Linux systems and worked on TianoCore open source firmware. He holds an M.S. ECE from Portland State University where he continues to be involved in research surrounding hardware security and threat modeling.
