Lei Zhou, a seasoned technical lead, has worked across diverse sectors including industrial automation, semiconductors, IoT, and cybersecurity. He began his career at NARI Technology Co., China, then worked on embedded software for Qualcomm and AMD in Canada. He gained cybersecurity experience at BlackBerry and led a team building blockchain-based IoT identity management at a Canadian startup. Currently, he leads Linaro's service team, focusing on ARM OSS ecosystem, including Performance, Cybersecurity, Virtualization, and LTS. He holds a Master's in E/E from Nanjing University.

For over 30 years, primarily worked on new businesses in the semiconductor and embedded IT fields, focusing on starting and expanding multiple businesses from scratch. In the 1990s, worked in business development at a local semiconductor company in Silicon Valley (C-Cube Microsystems). After returning to Japan, worked as a Director of the Consumer Electronics BU at ATI (now AMD), country manager at a French startup company, and Senior Director of the Embedded BU at Oracle, before the current position at Linaro. Education: University of California (computer engineering), Tokyo Institute of Technology (PhD), Waseda Business School (MBA).

I have been engaged in SoC design and development at a domestic semiconductor vendor for over 20 years. After moving to Aisin Corporation, I worked on the development of systems that use SoCs. Based on this experience, I am involved in the development of energy-saving AI semiconductors (code name: Spin Ridge) in a NEDO AIC project.