Dear Autoware Foundation Members and the Autoware Community,

We are very delighted to inform all members and the Autoware community that the following members have been assigned to the Board of Directors, Fellow, and Execution Leadership Team of the Autoware Foundation (AWF) effective from April 2025.

Board of Directors

• Yang Zhang (Chairman of the Board)
• Christian John
• Suraj Gajendra

Fellow

• Shinpei Kato

Execution Leadership Team members

• Daisuke Tanaka (President)
• Ryohsuke Mitsudome – as the current chair of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC)
• The chair of the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) – to be confirmed after the 2025 SPC election in April 2025
• Daisuke Tanaka – acting, as the current lead of the Operations Team

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The AWF has been growing from Day 1 in 2018, currently reaching 100+ member organizations contributing to the Autoware development and promotions day by day. As the same time, the AWF has identified the critical issues to further grow to the next phase (so-called “AWF 2.0”) such as :

• The AWF must have a sound governance structure – monitoring and execution
• The effective decision making by the pooled wisdom from all internal and external
  resources is crucial
• More cross-functional collaboration must be accelerated for impact – TSC, SPC, Centers
  of Excellence, affiliated organizations etc.
• More tangible business opportunities for all member companies

With this in mind, the 2022-2024 board of directors and senior leaders of the AWF contemplated
the situation to derive the should-be leadership structure described above, as we communicated
at the General Assembly in March.

Your active participation and contribution is essential for the success of the AWF’s journey
ahead no matter how the leadership structure changed. Your positive feedback is always
welcome to further energize the community as well.

With our best regards,
Autoware Foundation Board of Directors