Gregory M. Kurtzer is a 25+ year veteran, advocate, and well-known figure in the Enterprise Linux, open source, and high performance computing (HPC) communities. After working as an HPC systems architect and technical lead at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—one of the major national laboratories run by the US Department of Energy—Kurtzer went on to start and lead several large open source projects such as CentOS Linux, Perceus, Warewulf, Singularity (now Apptainer) and, most recently, Rocky Linux. He now serves as Founder and CEO of CIQ, a technology company he started in 2020 that builds secure, reliable, and open infrastructure solutions at scale, with dedicated world-class support for a range of performance intensive computing and enterprise technologies. He also is on the board at the RESF and OpenELA.