Boris is the co-founder and EVP at Mirantis, a leading OpenStack systems integrator. Operationally responsible for Mirantis? market strategy, Boris acts as a spokesperson for the company and is Mirantis? public face in the OpenStack community. In his role, Boris works to ensure that Mirantis? efforts don?t just promote the Mirantis brand, but also help further global awareness of the OpenStack community. He helps evangelize the OpenStack community by regularly blogging about it (blog.mirantis.com), talking on behalf of the community at various conferences, and engaging in business development activities to attract new member companies and contributors. During 15 years of his professional career, Boris held several executive positions with technology companies he helped establish. He was a founder and CEO of Selectosa Systems, an IT consulting company which was subsequently acquired in 2006; and is a co-founder and angel investor at AGroup.lv, now a venture-backed enterprise software company headquartered in Europe.