Arthur Tyde III, long-time Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, agrees to join the Orange & Bronze board of directors. The senior partners of Orange & Bronze believe Art Tyde can lend an experienced and global perspective to O&B's business, as well as provide significant access to the Silicon Valley market.Arthur Tyde is an executive with 20 years of IT engineering, management and investment experience, 15 of those as a professional in the Linux & Open Source space. He is credited by The Economist as the founder of the enterprise Linux services and support industry.
In 1996 Arthur established the Bay Area (San Francisco & Silicon Valley) Linux Users Group; the first Linux LUG in the USA. Later, in 1998 he raised funding from top tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists (Kleiner Perkins), recruited the most strategically interesting players in Open Source and launched LinuxCare, the first company to offer commercial / enterprise class support (21 distributions, 9 hardware architectures), independent certification (LinuxCare Labs), professional services and training (LinuxCare University). LinuxCare also contributed significantly to the Linux Kernel, SAMBA, PHP, and many other Open Source projects.
In addition, Tyde is credited as the founding sponsor of the Linux Professional Institute (training) and the Free Standards Group, now the Linux Foundation (where he served as CTO from 2004 through 2005).
Prior to Linuxcare, Arthur was an enterprise IT architect for Gap Inc., California State Automobile Association, and a software engineer at IBM. He is a board member or advisor to numerous high profile Linux and Open Source startups, a California licensed Private Investigator and a private pilot.
Recently, Arthur co-founded a successful embedded Linux startup (Sputnik Inc.), consulted for a large software client in the US Pacific Northwest (building their Competitive Enterprise Linux Lab), in China (launching startup companies) and later, as APAC General Manager ran the sales and engineering business for Levanta Inc. Focused on enterprise customers in Japan and Korea; Arthur created sales relationships, partner programs, and designed enterprise infrastructures for such marquee customers as NTT Telecommunications and Hitachi.
Arthur has been a computer enthusiast since 1979, graduated from Michigan State University, and is based with his family in Manila, Philippines.
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