He has also moved to VP of Software at Orange, from CTO at Orange Business
A former winner of a Mobile Europe CTO of the Year Award (Trailblazer), Philippe Ensarguet has been appointed VP of Software Engineering at Orange. He moved to that role from being CTO of Orange Business where he worked, in a variety of positions, for more than 16 years.
Ensarguet has also been chosen as one of the 20 inaugural advisors on the new Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board (LEFAB) drawn from a cross-section industries and companies large and small, within the EU, the UK, and beyond.
The Advisory Board’s role is to steward Linux Foundation Europe’s growing community, which now has 100 member organisations from across the region.
Multiple missions
The timing of the LEFAB comes as a clutch of legislation that will have a profound impact on the technology ecosystem is in the offing. This includes the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the AI Act and the Digital Services and Digital Markets Act.
Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe, commented, “Open source in this time and age is not only critical to the success of technology companies, but to the very business of traditional industries undergoing digital transformation.”
The Advisory Board hosted its inaugural meeting in April during Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023. It broad set of responsibilities will include guidance for LF Europe to engage the public sector in open source projects.