Individual Member Profile
Johan Christenson
Public- and Private cloud. Giving choice of open infrastructure to the masses.
Johan Christenson is a serial entrepreneur whom has successfully exited multiple companies he founded. After receiving a graduate degree in Engineering, from Florida Institute of Technology, his focus turned to the digital space.
Johan is the founder and CEO of Cleura (former City Network), which offers a global public cloud as well as private clouds for enterprises - all based on OpenStack and other open source projects. Cleuras mission is to enable innovation and focuses on enterprises with regulatory challenges such as within finance, health care of government agencies.
Johan sees OpenStack and open source as a whole, as critical for all enterprises in order to provide options and create competition in an ever more centralized infrastructure world. He, and the team at Cleura, empower new types of industries and markets to use the power of OpenStack, to enable and increase innovation in their organizations.
- Cleura AB - From 2022-01-01 (Current)
- City Network Hosting AB - From 2009-01-01 (Current)
- Exit Strategies: Real Talk on Virtualization Migration and Market Disruption
Johan is a candidate in the January 2026 Board Elections .
It is hugely important as one of the very few drivers of open infrastructure software. In a world where choice is important Openinfra drives not only innovation but gives an opportunity for all to create that choice.
To guide, steer and work towards a sustainable growth where openness and inclusiveness leads to innovative software for all.
To keep the community healthy and seize the opportunity which Broadcom and other macro drivers have given open source around infrastructure.
