Blender Founder Ton Roosendaal Steps Down as CEO
2025-09-18
Ton Roosendaal, founder and CEO of the open-source 3D software Blender, announced he will step down on January 1, 2026. He will transition to the newly established Blender Foundation supervisory board. Current COO Francesco Siddi will take over as CEO, joined by new board members Sergey Sharybin (Head of Development), Dalai Felinto (Head of Product), and Fiona Cohen (Head of Operations). Roosendaal stated that they've been preparing for this since 2019 and is confident in the team to lead Blender into the next decade.
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