Welcome to the new CloudBees representative on the CD Foundation Governing Board, François Déchery, taking the place of Wesley Pullen. Thank you, Wesley, for all your support throughout your term.
François Déchery
François is a technology entrepreneur and executive who co-founded CloudBees in 2010 and today serves as a senior strategic leader and unified-platform executive sponsor at the company. He has spent more than three decades in enterprise software and services, with roles spanning consulting, professional services and customer-facing leadership at organizations including Sun Microsystems, Red Hat/JBoss and MAPICS before launching CloudBees.
At CloudBees François helped build the company from an early vision for improving how software is built and delivered into an enterprise DevOps and continuous-delivery vendor with broad adoption in large organizations. Under the CloudBees umbrella the company has been a major contributor to Jenkins and related open-source projects and is a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). His work at CloudBees has combined product strategy, customer success and strategic initiatives to help bridge open-source communities and enterprise requirements.
François has a Master of Science in business administration and information systems from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Clermont and a postgraduate degree in management of information systems from the Institut Francais de Gestion in Paris. He is based in New York.
