Jim Zemlin
CEO of the Linux Foundation, home of projects including Linux, Kubernetes, PyTorch and MCP
- CEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director), The Linux Foundation124
Jim Zemlin is the CEO of the Linux Foundation, an organization for open-source software, standards and collaborative innovation that hosts projects including Linux, Kubernetes, PyTorch, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and RISC-V. As the Foundation's executive director, Zemlin was quoted in the 2022 announcement that PyTorch would move to the newly formed PyTorch Foundation and in the 2025 announcements of the Agent2Agent protocol project and the Agentic AI Foundation.1234
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation's leadership page lists Zemlin as CEO and describes work with technology companies including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, IBM and NVIDIA on artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital infrastructure. The page names Linux, Kubernetes, PyTorch, MCP and RISC-V among the projects the Foundation hosts.1
AI projects
In September 2022 the Linux Foundation announced that PyTorch would move from Meta to the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, quoting Zemlin as executive director. In June 2025 the Foundation launched the Agent2Agent protocol project, which Google created, again with a statement from Zemlin.23
In December 2025 the Linux Foundation formed the Agentic AI Foundation around contributions of MCP, goose and AGENTS.md. Zemlin's statement in the announcement framed open governance as a source of transparency and stability for agent projects.4
Work
Agentic AI Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)
Quoted as Linux Foundation executive director in the December 2025 announcement forming the Agentic AI Foundation, with founding project contributions of MCP from Anthropic, goose from Block and AGENTS.md from OpenAI.4
PyTorch Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)
Quoted as Linux Foundation executive director in the September 2022 announcement that PyTorch would move from Meta to the Linux Foundation under the new PyTorch Foundation.2
Career timeline
Sep 12, 2022
Quoted, as executive director, in the announcement of PyTorch's move to the new PyTorch Foundation at the Linux Foundation.2
Jun 23, 2025
Quoted in the Linux Foundation's launch of the Agent2Agent protocol project.3
Dec 9, 2025
Quoted in the announcement forming the Agentic AI Foundation with MCP, goose and AGENTS.md.4
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