07 | Voice: Jon Stine, Executive Director, Open Voice Network

About Jon Stine 

Jon Stine is the Executive Director of The Open Voice Network (OVN), a non-profit global association working now to bring standards to the world of artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistance. The OVN is a Directed Fund of The Linux Foundation. 

He brings to this role more than 30 years of global leadership in the commerce and technology industries. 

Jon’s retail industry knowledge was first shaped in the womenswear apparel business, as he headed sales of a well-known national brand to leading US department and specialty stores. In 2000, he joined the Intel Corporation to create and head its first global outreach to the retail and consumer goods industry. 

He joined Cisco Systems in late 2006, and later headed Cisco’s North America consulting practice for retail-CPG. In 2014, he returned to Intel as the Global Enterprise Sales General Manager for the retail, hospitality, and consumer goods industries. He stepped away from Intel in 2019 to build The Open Voice Network.

Through the years, Jon has worked directly with customers across the Americas, Western and Central Europe, India, China, and Japan. 

He resides in Portland, Oregon, USA.