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Active State Appoints Abby Kearns As Chief Executive Officer

PRIVATEMar 11, 2026•3 months ago

Position

Chief Executive Officer

Company

ActiveState

Abby Kearns
Vancouver

Description

ActiveState has appointed Abby Kearns as CEO, taking over from Stephen Baker, who is now joining the Board of Directors. Kearns brings over 25 years of experience in technology and open source management to her new role.

Company Information

Company

ActiveState

Location

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

With ActiveState, developers can develop applications faster as they focus on writing code, not building runtimes. And enterprises can secure their open source supply chain while meeting compliance and reducing management costs. ActiveState, provides enterprise grade programming language distributions backed with cross-platform consistency, commercial technical support, security reviews, license reviews, and indemnification. Our products and services directly address the challenges faced by enterprises trying to manage the risks and complexities of large scale open source language implementations.

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