Masae is a Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Strategy team within VMware's OSPO, where she leads the company’s business strategies and community contributions alignment, to improve the business and entire ecosystem's sustainability. She has presented at LF Open Source Summit, LF Members Summit, FOSSBackstage and many other internal conferences. Previously, she led numerous programs including large scale IT transformation as part of a M&A program at Cisco (github dev environment, data center and compliance track), DX, and product and platform development on Linux/Android/iOS at multiple blue chip companies. Masae began her career as a Windows Software Developer in Japan and in the US at NEC/Microsoft. She lives in the UK with her English husband and 16yr son.