and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science

at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's non-profit career began in

2000, when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's Executive Director from

2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate

Member program, and invented the <a

href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  From

2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the

Software Freedom Law Center.  Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy

from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.

Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a

href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola University in

Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the <a

href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of Cincinnati</a>.  <a

href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's Master's thesis</a>

discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming

languages.  Kuhn received the <a

href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly

Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on

copyleft licensing.</p>

<h2>Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>

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<p>Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of

business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and

business development.  Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently

a Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms.

Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual

Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was

responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in

partnership with IBM's Software Group.  In that role, Tony led

negotiations and structured deals with market leaders in the web

technology, e-commerce, retail, enterprise software, and financial

services sectors.  Tony also led various internal strategic initiatives,

including an effort to provide business leaders of key emerging market

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

Qualcomm.  He founded a company that designs and builds magnetic stripe

readers for security hobbyists 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

BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.  He gives presentations

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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