Gregory Kurtzer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CIQ and a Founder and Board Member at Rocky Linux. He was previously the original founder of CentOS. After Red Hat announced in December 2020 that it would discontinue development of CentOS in favor of CentOS Stream, Kurtzer said he would start a new project to continue the original goals of CentOS, which became Rocky Linux. He is known for founding CentOS and Rocky Linux.
Updated 4 September 2026
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