Brian Dawson

Brian Dawson has over six years of experience in various leadership positions in a range of companies. Brian has worked at CloudBees as a Sr Director Product Marketing and DevOps Evangelist from 2015 to 2021. Brian was the General Manager of Nation United LLC from 2015 to 2021. From 2018 to 2022, they worked as the Executive Director of Bluelite. Brian was the Vice President of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at The Linux Foundation from 2021 to 2022. Brian was the Global Head of Partner Relations at RippleX from 2022 to 2023. Brian founded and served as a consultant for Value In Motion TSM in 2021. In 2022, they held positions at Ortelius Open Source as a Board Member and DeployHub as the Head of Strategy and Marketing/Principal. From 2022 to 2023, they were a Mentee and XRPL Grants Judging Committee Member at Ripple. Most recently, Brian was the Interim Head of Strategy and Operations at STYNGR in 2023.

Brian Dawson attended De Anza College from 1989 to 1991, where they studied Audio Engineering and Computer Science. Brian also attended Foothill College in 1989 to 1990, focusing on Audio Engineering. In 1990 to 1992, they studied Multimedia Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is not clear if they obtained any degrees from these institutions.