until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center

(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director

from 2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive

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

Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the

University of Cincinnati.  His Master's thesis discussed methods for

dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, and is

chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to 2012 he served

as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a Senior Fellow. In 2000

he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data mass collaboration

platform.</p>

<h2>Tom Marble</h2>

<p>Tom Marble is best known for being the first &ldquo;OpenJDK

Ambassador” on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the

Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in

open source projects and his interest in intellectual property by

co-organizing the legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open

source

conference, <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">FOSDEM</a>. Marble

is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an

organizer for <a href="http://www.clojurebridge.org/">ClojureBridge</a>, a

weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well

as Debian's participation

in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of

Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and

legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for

electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense,

and multiplayer online gaming.</p>

<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source

software projects for well over 15 years.  He acted as the leader of the

Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source

Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of

Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin works for HP as an Open Source

Community Expert.  In this role, he facilitates open source activities both

internally within HP as well as externally within the broader open source

community.  Martin earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge and he

received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for his contributions to the

open source community.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>

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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously

the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME

Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for

Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the

Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work

with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining

SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,

Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and

London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where

she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and

Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering

from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award

and also co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free as in

Freedom&rdquo; podcast</a>.</p>

<h2>Tony Sebro</h2>

<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>

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