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Upbound and Leaders from the Cloud-native Community Advance a New Approach to Application and Infrastructure Management with Crossplane

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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Crossplane Community Day Upbound, the company behind open source projects Rook and Crossplane, today announced Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft have joined the Crossplane project.

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  • Crossplane Community Day Upbound, the company behind open source projects Rook and Crossplane, today announced Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft have joined the Crossplane project.
  • Announcements were made from the inaugural Crossplane Community Day, attended by community members from across the ecosystem.
  • Upbound also announced that Red Hat is working with the Crossplane community to enable powerful hybrid cloud application scenarios.
  • In response to strong Crossplane community momentum and demand, Upbound has launched a preview of their fully-managed service offering of Crossplane - Upbound Cloud.

Crossplane Capital's Portfolio Company, TransAxle, Appoints Mark Rohde as CEO

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

DALLAS, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TransAxle LLC ("TransAxle") is pleased to announce that experienced industrial executive, Mark Rohde, has been appointed CEO, replacing TransAxle's long-time CEO, Dave Olsen.

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  • DALLAS, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TransAxle LLC ("TransAxle") is pleased to announce that experienced industrial executive, Mark Rohde, has been appointed CEO, replacing TransAxle's long-time CEO, Dave Olsen.
  • TransAxle's new equity partner, Crossplane Capital ("Crossplane"), would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of Mr. Olsen, who has led the company since 2010.
  • Crossplane and I mutually agreed it was time for a new leader to fully unlock the potential of an already great company," stated Dave Olsen.
  • Mark and Dave will work closely to ensure all stakeholders are supported through this change," added Ben Eakes, Partner at Crossplane Capital.