Calista Redmond

Calista Redmond is an American executive who was CEO of The RISC-V Foundation. Redmond joined the RISC-V Foundation in March 2019. Prior to her appointment, she spent 12 years at IBM and was vice president of the IBM Z ecosystem from 2016 to 2019. Redmond received her MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 2006 and her BS from Northwestern University in 1996. Among these initiatives is Redmond's work to create the RISC-V partnership with the European Processor Initiative, involving chip research groups across the continent. Redmond hosted RISC-V's annual summit in December 2020, partnering with Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Huawei, and ZTE. Redmond has marketed RISC-V as an ARM alternative both previous to and following ARM's proposed acquisition by Nvidia. Redmond also moved the RISC-V Foundation's headquarters from Delaware to Switzerland in 2019 in an effort to promote the economic and political neutrality of the architecture after US politicians raised concerns about the use of RISC-V by Chinese tech companies.