Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is the Director of Portfolio Management for the Embedded Systems, Open Source and Linux Technology Group at Motorola. In this role he is responsible for defining and developing the requirements for Motorola’s open source initiatives. He will represent Motorola in Linux and Open Source forums driving Motorola’s requirements and overall strategy. He will also be involved with customers and partners on matters related to embedded systems, and open source software technologies and roadmaps.

Prior to Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) which included promoting the development and adoption of Linux and Open Source software in the communications industry. He also created and led the Carriers/Network Equipment Providers Forum, a vendor-neutral forum for carriers, service providers, network equipment providers and telecommunication equipment manufacturers, to discuss common challenges, exchange best practices and deployment experiences, and preview new technologies that relate to Linux and Open Source based platforms. Prior to joining OSDL, Dr. Haddad was a Senior Researcher at the "Research and Innovation" department of Ericsson’s corporate unit of research where he was involved with the server system architecture for 3G wireless IP networks and contributed to Ericsson's open platform efforts.

Dr. Haddad is co-author of two books on Red Hat Linux and Fedora. He is a Contributing Editor of the Linux Journal and a featured speaker and panelist at industry conferences.

Haddad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.