# Aaron Williams

> Aaron Williams is CEO of FOSSA, the San Francisco software supply chain risk management company that watches the open source dependencies inside enterprise code. He arrived in 2022 as VP of Marketing, was promoted to CMO, and stepped into the top job when founder Kevin Wang moved to Chairman. Two Case Western degrees, twenty-plus years of developer marketing at Sun Microsystems, D2iQ, OmniSci, HEAVY.ai and Civis Analytics, and a long habit of building technical communities around tools engineers actually use.

- **Role:** CEO at FOSSA
- **Organizations:** FOSSA, Civis Analytics, HEAVY.ai, OmniSci, D2iQ, Sun Microsystems, Bornlogic
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** M.S. Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, B.S. Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- **Known for:** Promoted from VP Marketing to CMO to CEO of FOSSA inside four years, Founded and ran two entertainment technology startups as CEO earlier in his career, Built developer communities at D2iQ during the height of the Kubernetes/Mesos wave

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Engineer and community lead at Sun Microsystems
- **2015** — Acting General Manager at Bornlogic
- **2015-2017** — Head of Global Community at D2iQ (Mesosphere)
- **2017-2020** — VP Marketing at OmniSci / HEAVY.ai
- **2021-2022** — VP Marketing at Civis Analytics
- **2022-05** — Joins FOSSA as VP of Marketing
- **2023** — Promoted to CMO; speaks at FOSSY on Winning Over Compliance Skeptics
- **2026** — Named CEO of FOSSA; founder Kevin Wang transitions to Chairman

## Achievements

- Promoted from VP Marketing to CMO to CEO of FOSSA inside four years
- Founded and ran two entertainment technology startups as CEO earlier in his career
- Built developer communities at D2iQ during the height of the Kubernetes/Mesos wave
- Spoke at FOSSY 2023 on selling open source compliance into skeptical engineering orgs

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Named CEO of FOSSA; Kevin Wang moves to Chairman.
- **2024** — FOSSA acquires StackShare to expand developer tools management.

## Links

- Website: https://fossa.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronwilliams/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/_arw_
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/teamfossa

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Last updated: 2026-05-15