Governing Board

Gabriele Paoloni is an Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat where he defines best methodologies and requirements to qualify Linux for functional safety usage.

He is a passionate technologist and has strong experience in both functional safety and Linux Kernel development, including previous roles leading FuSa software architecture for Intel platforms, CCIX vice chairman of the TDL working group and HiSilicon PCIe Linux maintainer.

Gabriele received a master’s degree with honors in electronic engineering from the University of Rome.

Matt Weber is a Chief Software Architect at the Boeing Company in the Enterprise Software Products & Capabilities organization. He’s focused on Linux in aerospace and defense. This focus is a theme in Matt’s career, which has involved close to two decades of embedded system development in regulated industries. Matt has previously participated in the RTCA SC-240/WG-117 (Topics on Software Advancement – SubGroup2) supplement and early during the original automotive-focused formation of ELISA. Matt attended Iowa State University, focusing on computer engineering, emphasizing networking and cybersecurity.  He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering from Iowa State University.

Philipp Ahmann is a Sr. OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (BOSCH) with focus on Open Source activities. He represents the ELISA project of the Linux Foundation as an ambassador and TSC member.

He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Linux automotive SW base platforms working as engineer, team leader for all test activities and as project manager. All of these projects utilized complex multi-core chipsets.

In his current position he contributes to a project focusing on embedded Linux in industrial applications and wider IoT scope beyond pure Automotive use cases.

Simone Weiss is working as a product owner and technical team lead for Elektrobit’s automotive Linux product solution. Since joining Elektrobit 5 years ago, she has worked on various areas within Elektrobit such as Yocto based Linux distributions, Linux system configuration, kernel driver development or compliance with UN-R155.
In her current position she is involved in Elektrobit’s Linux Distribution for Safety Applications and serves as the General Member Representative in ELISAs Governing Board.