Walter Stahlecker has worked closely with The Open Group (and X/Open) since 1987 in many groups, including the Architecture Forum, the Customer Council and the Board of Directors.
Walter is Director of Industry Initiatives for Hewlett-Packard Company in its Industry Standards Program Office since 2001. Previous responsibilities included being CTO of HP's Open Source and Linux Operation, developing a strategy for HP's system management program and building a SW lab as a founding part of HP OpenView. Walter joined HPs' Computer Systems organization as program manager making UNIX a main part of HP's computer business. Before this Walter held several management positions in the team taking HP's instruments division in Germany (now part of Agilent) to leadership in several new markets.

Walter joined HP after receiving his degree of Diplom Ingenieur in 1970 from the Technical University in Stuttgart, Germany.