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SpiderOak Adds SUSE CTO Di Giacomo to Advisory Board

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SpiderOak Adds SUSE CTO Di Giacomo to Advisory Board

Reston, VA – October 27, 2026 -- SpiderOak, a zero-trust cybersecurity provider for space and mission-critical edge operations, has appointed SUSE Chief Technology and Product Officer Thomas Di Giacomo to its Board of Advisors to speed commercial adoption of its platform in embedded systems.

Di Giacomo to guide open-source strategy for embedded compute at scale

Di Giacomo will advise on applying open-source technologies and operating systems to compute at scale. His focus is accelerating commercial adoption and deployment in embedded environments. SpiderOak CEO Dave Pearah said Di Giacomo's record of driving large-scale adoption of open-source infrastructure software will be instrumental as the company expands its zero-trust platform commercially.

Di Giacomo has more than two decades of experience in open source, operating systems and embedded systems strategy.