Mirantis founders, Alex Freedland (CEO) and Boris Renski (CMO) serve on the OpenStack Foundation Board[REF] and were most recently re-elected in January 2016 [REF].
Sahara, an OpenStack project that simplifies creation of Hadoop clusters, originated by the Apache Software Foundation and OpenStack Foundation members, is contributed to by Mirantis in collaboration with Red Hat and Hortonworks.