Cloud Foundry Foundation announced that Craig McLuckie, vice president of research and development, VMware, has been named chairman of the Board of Directors. McLuckie succeeds Paul Fazzone, senior vice president of strategy and planning, VMware.

“Looking to the future, we have an opportunity to not only act as effective stewards of a critical open source project, but to work towards a future where the capabilities that Cloud Foundry pioneered are brought forwards into the world of Kubernetes and its affiliated projects,” said McLuckie.

McLuckie is responsible for the VMware Cloud Native Applications business unit. Prior to VMware, McLuckie was co-founder of the Kubernetes project, and founder and CEO of Heptio.

The Cloud Foundry Foundation Board of Directors is responsible for the oversight and management of the Foundation’s business affairs, property and interests, while technical decision-making authority is vested in the Foundation’s Technical Oversight Committee and working groups. Other governing board members include representatives from Accenture, Gov.UK, HCL, IBM, SAP, and SUSE.