# Brian Gerkey: person

Canonical ID: `875c9ba5-b5df-40e1-91c7-039a837a7eb9`

Co-founder and former CEO of Open Robotics (and the Open Source Robotics Foundation), the organization behind ROS and Gazebo; now its board chair.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Open Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/open-robotics.md) Co-Founder & Board Chair (former CEO) since 2012-01-01 (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Open Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/open-robotics.md) founded 2012-01-01 (cofounder)

## Sources (1)

1. https://spectrum.ieee.org/brian-gerkey-wendy-tan-white


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