Hyperledger Project which unites over 30 companies to work out a cross-industrial open standard for distributed ledgers is now led by Apache Software Foundation head Brian Behlendorf.

Becoming the first executive director of the Project, Brian Behlendorf promises to focus mostly on permissioned ledgers but does not rule out the perspectives of the non-permissioned ones, “seeing it as a spectrum, not a dichotomy.”

“I came to learn that there was a real need for staff to help bridge the companies who wanted to incorporate blockchain in their products and the developers,”  CoinDesk quotes Behlendorf.  

Along with the Behlendorf-related news, Hyperledger has also published an announcement concerning new members joining the project. These are: Beijing AiYi Digital Finance Technology Co. Ltd, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Cloudsoft Corporation Ltd., Coinplug, Cuscal Limited, Eurostep Holdings Ltd., Skry (Coinalytics), and Soramitsu.

The newly-appointed executive says that he is going to make the process of joining Hyperledger much easier than it is now when it takes as much as three weeks to make one’s first pull request. Behlendorf is supposed to report to the head of Linux Foundation and its community concerning all the latest developments.

The Hyperledger project launched by the Linux Foundation is aiming at the promotion of the blockchain technology and creation of cross-industry standards and individual solutions for the application of blockchain in a variety of fields, including banking, industry, insurance, proprietary rights, energy, civil contracts and the Internet of Things.

The project’s board chaired by Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters includes representatives of Intel, IBM, R3, Deutsche Börse, J.P. Morgan, DTCC, CME Group, Accenture, Fujitsu, SWIFT and other prominent industry players.

Last month Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum platform, suggested that Hyperledger could implement Ethereum to the project’s proof-of-concept.

Maria Rudina