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<h1>Officers</h1>

<p>The <a href="/about/board/">Board of Directors</a> of the Conservancy

elects its officers.  The current officers are:</p>

<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Board Chairperson</h2>

<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and

Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software

Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a

href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his

work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became

an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to

various FLOSS projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator

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>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</h2>

<p>Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984.  He

currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response

division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the

HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite,

and the muon tomography project.  In 1997, Mark took a couple of years off

from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the

Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)

writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the

HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part

time. Mark earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the

Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. </p>

<h2>Peter Brown -  Treasurer</h2>

<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more

   than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free

   Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its

   Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also

   been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and

   worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>

<a id="karen"></a>

<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,

  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>

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<h1>Staff</h1>

<h2>Karen Sandler - Executive Director</h2>

<a id="karen"></a>

<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,

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>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>

<a id="bkuhn"></a>

<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and

Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software

Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a

href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his

work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became

an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to

various FLOSS projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator

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>

<a id="tony"></a>

<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>

<a id="denver"></a>

<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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