The FinOps TAC oversees the FinOps definition, curriculum and technical vision of the FinOps Foundation (https://www.finops.org/about/).
he FinOps Technical Advisory Council (TAC) is the technical governing body of the FinOps Foundation which has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus of the FinOps Framework, provides direction for the development of open-source FinOps best practices used by the practitioner community, and guides the technical vision of the FinOps Foundation.
Currently the TAC has 20 voting member seats, comprised of Practitioner seats, GB appointed seats and Premier member seats.
- Noel Crowley, Director of Cloud FinOps at Fidelity Investments (Term End 1st November 2026)
- William Bryant, Internet Services Finance at Apple (Term End 1st November 2026)
- Vik Saluja, FinOps Director at Mastercard
- Vikram Desai, Principal Product Management Lead at Microsoft
- Rahul Sharma, Product Lead, Google Cloud Billing Platform at Google
- David Lambert, Senior Manager - Cloud Engineering at Adobe
- Tom Cross, Cloud Infrastructure Technical Lead at Aer Lingus (Term End 1st November 2026)
- Lucas Paratore, Senior Product Line Manager at VMware (Term End 1st November 2026)
- Casey Doran, VP of Product at Apptio, an IBM Company
- Courtney Bormann, Sr Mgr FinOps & Cloud Governance at General Mills
- Larry Advey, AI Economics Director at CloudZero
- Parker Nancollas, FinOps Practice Lead, North America at SoftwareOne
- Joshua Collier, FinOps Lead at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)
- Letian Feng, Senior Manager of Product Management - Technical at AWS
- Victoria Levy, Senior Staff FinOps Analyst at SailPoint (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Anthony Johnson, Senior Director of FinOps and AI Economics at SHI International Corp. (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Nicola Sfondrini, Partner Cloud Infrastructure at PWC Italy (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Claudia Seffrin, CPO & COO at Pier Cloud (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Amy Ashby, Senior Lead, FinOps and SAM at Under Armour (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Sivaprakash Durairaj, Senior Manager, Product Management (FinOps/MCMP) at Lenovo (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Stephen Old, COO at Synyega (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- George Parker, Senior Director, FinOps and Product Management at Salesforce (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Jarred Clore, AI & Cloud Value Economics (FinOps) Delivery Leader at Cisco (Term Start 1st November 2026)
- Erik Norman, FinOps Lead at Ypto Belgian Train (Term Start 1st November 2026)
As defined by the Technical Charter, The Technical Advisory Council (the "TAC") will have 20 members determined as follows:
- three individuals selected by vote of the Governing Board of the FinOps Foundation Fund, a directed fund of the Linux Foundation (the “Directed Fund”);
- up to three seats for Premier Members of the Directed Fund, with each Premier Member having the right to appoint a representative to the TAC until such point in time as there are more than three Premier Members of the Directed Fund, after which the Premier Members will nominate and elect among themselves three members of the TAC;
- seven individuals that are FinOps Practitioners, as defined in the funding charter of the Directed Fund, selected or elected via a method to be determined by the Governing Board.
- the remaining number of seats to be filled in a manner as determined by the TAC.
We would like to acknowledge and thank our founding charter TAC members and their huge contributions to our community.
- Jason Fuller, Head of Cloud Management & Operations at HERE Technologies
- Mike Fuller, Principal Systems Engineer for FinOps at Atlassian
- Ally Anderson, Business Operations Manager at Neustar
- Alex Landis, Finance Manager/Business Partner – Platform Engineering at Autodesk
- Joseph Daly, Director Cloud Optimization Services at Nationwide
- Anders Hagman, Senior Manager, Technology Procurement at Spotify
- Sascha Curth, Head of Global Cloud Strategy at OLX/Naspers
- Jen Erickson, Senior Technology Project Manager at Bill.com
- Jordi Espasa Clofent, Technology Platform Business Partner at Letgo
- Jason Gorringe, Cloud and Virtual Services at Australia Post
- Leon Jiang, Cloud Engineer at National Australia Bank
- David Andrews, Senior IT Manager at Just Eat
- John Merritt, Sr. Director Enterprise Technology & Operations at Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Ashley Hromatko, FinOps Manager/Operations Management at Pearson PLC
- Youssef Ibrahim, Lead Analyst Cloud Governance at Nike
- Adriaan Bloem, Head of Digital Infrastructure at MBC
- Michele Alessandrini, Head of Cloud Adoption and Governance at Yoox Net-A-Porter Group
TBD
The TAC will be committed to working in the open on GitHub: https://github.com/finopsfoundation/tac
The TAC meets every other Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Time.
Attendance for voting TAC members is required, please send a proxy along with any updates if you are unable to join. Meetings are open to anyone.
TAC emailing list (open to all): https://groups.google.com/a/finops.org/g/tac
WGs are cross-functional groups of people producing best practices for the FinOps Framework or a specific FinOps challenge, and operate in 4-8 week sprints. SIGs represent ongoing industry, persona or focus groups that provide opportunities for practioner connection and exploration of best practices, sharing knowledge between those involved. SIGs can come from WGs to create content and conversly WGs can produce SIGs to create community.
The TAC will approved the formation of WGs & SIGs. A list of Working Groups and Special Interest Groups can be found here.