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Jim Zemlin

CEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director), Linux Foundation

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

At a glance

Current role
CEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director)
Sector
Nonprofit
Work listed
2
Sources cited
4
Profile reviewed

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 and contributions

  • Agentic AI Foundation

    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

    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

Timeline

  1. Quoted, as executive director, in the announcement of PyTorch's move to the new PyTorch Foundation at the Linux Foundation.2
  2. Quoted in the Linux Foundation's launch of the Agent2Agent protocol project.3
  3. Quoted in the announcement forming the Agentic AI Foundation with MCP, goose and AGENTS.md.4

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References

4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Linux Foundation — LeadershipThe Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation, Further Accelerating AI/ML Open Source CollaborationThe Linux Foundation · Announcement · published Sep 12, 2022 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Linux Foundation Launches the Agent2Agent Protocol ProjectThe Linux Foundation · Announcement · published Jun 23, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)The Linux Foundation · Announcement · published Dec 9, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026