Overview

Alexander Freedland is an entrepreneur, technology investor and a cloud computing pioneer. He made a significant contribution to the development of the ideology and practice of open source technologies. Alex co-founded and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation. Under his leadership, Mirantis, the company he founded, was for several years the number one contributor to the OpenStack project, one of the largest open source projects in the world.

Notable Company and Board Affiliations

  • Mirantis, Inc. Founder, Board Member, Chairman of the Board of Directors: The company is one of world's principal suppliers of open source cloud software powered by OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes. Mirantis software and services are widely used by over a thousand enterprises and service providers on six continents. Mirantis has raised $200M from Intel Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Dell, Ericsson, SAP and many others. Mirantis is headquartered in Silicon Valley with sales and engineering offices worldwide.
  • OpenStack Foundation, Director, Chairman of the Finance Committee: OpenStack Foundation is a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. It is one of the largest open source foundations with more than 500 corporate members.
  • Ventra Employment, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman: Ventra is one of the leading Staffing and Business Services Providers serving leading Russian and multinational companies. Ventra employs more than 10,000 people annually and was rated #4 in the Staffing Industry Analyst (CIA) report for Russia and CIS.
  • Atomyze, Chairman of the Board of Directors: Atomyze is leveraging open-source blockchain technologies to facilitate the digitization and tokenization of commodities and enable them to be traded, in a near-instant, frictionless, simple, and secure way. The company is privately held and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
  • Chempack Corporation, Independent Director: Chempack is the worlds鈥� leading independent manufacturer of Flexible Industrial Packaging (FIBC).
  • RSI Group, Co-founder, Board Member: RSI Group was one of the world鈥檚 principal provider of Receivables Management Software. The company was acquired by London Bridge Software (LSE:LNB), now part of FICO Corporation (NYSE:FICO).

Alexander Freedland in world rankings:

  • 2014 - #26 in the 39 Most Important People in Cloud Computing (according to Business Insider)
  • 2015 - Top 100 Builders and Innovators (from Goldman Sachs)
  • 2018 - #6 in Top-10 startups with Russian-born founders by amount of capital raised (based on the results of a study of the Expert Magazine analytical center)

Education and Educational Affiliation

  • Moscow Oil and Gas Academy, Moscow 鈥� BS in Applied Mathematics
  • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 鈥� MS in Computer Engineering
  • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 鈥� Adjunct Professor
  • Co-Founder of Device and System Design Institute, Zelenograd, Russia - in partnership with MIET, Cadence Design Systems and Mirantis.