Jon Stine is the Executive Director of The Open Voice Network, the open-source community of the Linux Foundation dedicated to the development of technical standards and usage guidelines for the emerging world of artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistance.

Since its founding in June 2020, the Open Voice Network has grown into a global effort powered by more than 200 monthly active volunteers from 13 nations, with Tier 1 enterprise sponsors from Europe and the United States. It expects this year to publish its first proposed protocols for voice assistant interoperability, as well as guidelines for privacy, security, and ethical use issues specific to voice.

Jon brings to the task more than 30 years of executive leadership in the retail and technology industries. He led sales of a national apparel brand to better US department and specialty stores before joining the Intel Corporation in 2000 to head its first global outreach to the retail and consumer goods industries.

He joined Cisco Systems retail-consumer goods consulting team in late 2006, and later headed Cisco’s North America consulting practice for retail-CPG. In 2014, he returned to Intel as the Global Enterprise Sales General Manager for the retail, hospitality, and consumer goods industries. He left Intel in 2019 to build The Open Voice Network.

He resides in Portland, Oregon, USA.