Seasoned Financial Executive Bryan LeBlanc Joins to Help Advance Newly Independent Company’s Growth Agenda

ALAMEDA, CA – December 19, 2018 – Wind River®, a leader in delivering software for critical infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Bryan LeBlanc as chief financial officer, effective immediately. He will oversee the company’s global financial strategy and operations, and will report to Jim Douglas, president and chief executive officer of Wind River.

A seasoned executive, LeBlanc brings to Wind River nearly three decades of extensive financial experience with small and large technology companies, offering deep expertise in M&A, cash management, equity/debt financing, and software revenue recognition. Most recently, he served as CFO of startup Spire Global Inc., a space to cloud analytics company. Prior to Spire, Bryan was CFO of Jive Software for nine years where he was instrumental in growing and scaling the company, as well as in efforts to launch the company’s initial public offering in 2011.

"Wind River welcomes Bryan’s financial acumen, knowledge of the technology industry, and strong leadership. We are confident he will make an immediate impact during our next chapter as an independent company,” said Douglas. “With a proven track record in driving transformation and building and sustaining growth, Bryan is a great fit as our new CFO, and he will be a tremendous asset to the team.”

“It is an exciting time to join Wind River,” said LeBlanc. “The company is pioneering the technologies to advance digital transformation across multiple industries, and is primed to accelerate the evolution from automated to autonomous systems with its innovative and disruptive software portfolio. I look forward to working with this dynamic team as we embark on Wind River’s next stage of growth.”

Previous to Jive, LeBlanc served in various finance positions at companies including Webtrends Inc., Mercury Interactive Corporation, and inSilicon Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and an undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College.

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in world since 1981, and is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems that demand the highest levels of safety, security, performance, and reliability. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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ALAMEDA, CA – Dec. 17, 2018 – Wind River®, a leader in delivering IoT software for critical infrastructure, today announced the release of a full suite of automotive, avionics, and industrial safety certification evidence for the latest version of VxWorks® Cert Edition. The real-time operating system (RTOS) for safety-critical applications is designed and developed to the highest achievable safety levels accepted by worldwide certification authorities.

VxWorks solutions have been used in more than 550 safety certification programs by more than 350 customers across industries. This most recent suite of certification evidence builds on Wind River’s 20-plus years of experience in safety certification software products, and demonstrates the company’s commitment to industry-leading safe, secure, and reliable solutions.

Like the RTOS itself, the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) evidence is designed for reuse and portability with long-term cost-of-ownership benefits for safety-critical projects, including those specifically targeting compliance to the following standards:

• Automotive: ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) D backed by certificates issued by independently accredited certification authority TÜV SÜD
• Avionics: DO-178C Design Assurance Level (DAL) A
• Industrial: IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 backed by certificates issued by independently accredited certification authority TÜV SÜD

“With this latest addition of robust certification evidence, Wind River continues its unsurpassed legacy of delivering to our customers comprehensive safety offerings and certification expertise, with a focus on reducing program risk and enabling faster time-to-market,” said Michel Genard, vice president of operating environments, Wind River. “Relevant for a diverse range of applications such as autonomous driving, next-generation avionics, and industrial automation, the evidence sets are backed by Wind River’s professional services, support, and maintenance, ensuring best-in-industry experience as programs move forward to full system certification.”

In addition to VxWorks Cert Edition, the Wind River safety portfolio includes the VxWorks 653 integrated modular avionics (IMA) platform. More information about Wind River safety platforms is available at www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/certification-profiles/.

About Wind River
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in world since 1981, and is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems that demand the highest levels of safety, security, performance, and reliability. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

 

 

 

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ALAMEDA, CA – Dec. 14, 2018 – Wind River^®, a leader in delivering IoT software to critical infrastructure, today announced that it has joined the China Mobile Communications Group’s OPEN-AUTO Program. As a member, Wind River will cooperate with China Mobile on the development of an open framework, enrichment tools, testing and verification and implementation, in order to support telecommunication clouds.

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, has been actively advancing its SDN/NFV automatic integrated testing system in recent years to transform its network architecture, operation and services towards next generation network infrastructure. The OPEN-AUTO program, built upon the automatic integrated testing platform AUTO developed by the China Mobile Research Institute, brings together program members’ expertise in hardware, platforms, services, and instruments and tools to build out an OPEN-AUTO ecosystem. This ecosystem will help facilitate capabilities for intelligent planning, batch automatic configuration, automatic deployment of one-key trigger and automatic testing of the components of different layers within the Telecom Integrated Cloud (TIC) to complete the integration and testing of the virtual network elements automatically. This effort can not only improve integration efficiency, but also support a closed-loop from integrated verification in the labs to deployment by provincial branches across the country to achieve rapid deployment of an end-to-end telecommunication cloud.

As one of the initial six cloud platform vendors of the program, Wind River provided significant contributions to the design and verification of the foundational platform. During this process, teams completed testing and validation of Wind River Titanium Cloud virtualization software with the OPEN-AUTO automatic integrated testing platform.

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in the world since 1981 and is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems that demand the highest levels of safety, security, performance, and reliability. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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ALAMEDA, CA – Dec. 4, 2018 – Wind River^®, a leader in delivering IoT software for safety-critical domains including automotive, and Renesas Electronics Corporation are expanding their collaboration for connected, advanced driver assist systems, and autonomous driving programs, including plans to pre-validate Wind River software with the latest Renesas R-Car systems-on-chip (SoCs). Software from the Wind River automotive portfolio is currently available on reference hardware for several existing Renesas SoCs. These include those for high-end, next-generation systems targeting vision and image processing applications relevant for autonomous driving, safety support systems, and also SoCs targeting in-vehicle infotainment.

“Connected and autonomous cars must intelligently interpret the world around them, and this is pushing software complexity to rapidly increase within the automobile. In order to achieve advanced automotive systems, software and hardware must work together seamlessly,” said Marques McCammon, vice president of Automotive at Wind River. “By leveraging pre-validated solutions that are ready for deployment, car makers can quickly achieve their goals for delivering innovation and accelerating their time-to-market. We look forward to continuing our work with leaders such as Renesas, as well as further strengthening our efforts with silicon partners across the ecosystem.”

Renesas is a leading supplier of microcontrollers (MCUs) and a premiere supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including MCUs, SoC solutions, and a broad range of analog and power devices.

“With the move toward a more connected and autonomous future and the growing sophistication of automotive systems, increased collaboration across the ecosystem is essential,” said Masayasu Yoshida, senior director of the Automotive Technical Customer Engagement Division at Renesas. “Together, Wind River and Renesas can combine their expertise to dramatically improve development efficiencies for car makers to better meet the evolving demands of the automotive industry.”

The Wind River automotive portfolio includes VxWorks^®, a high-performance RTOS tuned for both determinism and responsiveness with a proven track record in safety- and security-certified environments, making it an ideal solution for quickly commercializing ADAS and autonomous applications. Wind River Linux and other commercial-grade open source technologies, in combination with Wind River world-class technical support and maintenance, help customers stay up-to-date on the latest innovations. Wind River Edge Sync provides a software framework for remote over-the-air (OTA) updates and software lifecycle management, allowing rapid, safe, and secure updates to software and firmware throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Under-the-hood SoCs play an important role in safety-oriented systems, such as autonomous driving and automated driving technologies. Renesas SoCs deliver high computer vision performance and AI processing at industry-leading low power levels, targeting automotive front cameras for use in mass-produced Level 3 (conditional automation) and Level 4 (high automation) autonomous vehicles. Part of the open, innovative, and trusted Renesas autonomy™ Platform for autonomous and automated driving, R-Car SoCs enable design flexibility for Tier 1 suppliers and auto manufacturers to map their own road from assisted to highly automated vehicles. More information about Wind River automotive solutions and technologies is available at http://www.windriver.com/solutions/industries/automotive.

About Wind River

Wind River is a world leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers the industry’s most comprehensive embedded software portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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