opportunities with coordinated intellectual property development and

monetization strategies, as well as the revamping and supervision of IBM's

corporate-wide process for determining the value and availability of

patents for sale.  Prior to his tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in

the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and

licensing matters for clients in the medical, pharmaceutical and

mechanical technology areas.  Tony received his J.D. and his M.B.A. from

the University of Michigan.  He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of the New York bar and

registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony

is also an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit

community, and has served on the boards of multiple non-profit

organizations.</p>

<h2>Denver Gingerich - FLOSS License Compliance Engineer</h2>

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<p>

Denver works part-time managing the technical side of Conservancy's

license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete and

corresponding source (C&CS).  His roles elsewhere have recently

included financial trading software development on GNU/Linux and

previously involved writing system software for hardware companies,

including driver writing for the kernel named Linux at ATI (now AMD) and

readers for security hobbiests where he designed the hardware and

developed the device's tools and firmware, which are both free software.

Denver also writes free software in his spare time, with patches accepted

into Wine, the kernel named Linux, and GNU wdiff.  Denver received his

about digital civil rights and protecting the free software ecosystem,

having spoken at conferences such as CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's

Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.</p>

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