Jim Tanous for The Mac Observer:

Former Apple Senior VP and head of Apple’s Mac OS X development team Bertrand Serlet is joining the board of directors at software virtualization company Parallels, the company announced early Tuesday. Mr. Serlet will take the position of a “non-executive director.”

Parallels makes virtualization software which lets Mac users install Windows and other non-Apple operating systems without having to reboot their computers using Boot Camp. The software’s been a popular way to get Windows on the Mac almost since the start of Apple’s transition from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors.

Serlet left Apple in early 2011.