<p>Lo&iuml;c Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he

started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France.  His first

contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a

Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard.  He

currently works as a developer

for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services

and software to operate poker rooms.  He

created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in

2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president

of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free

Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member

of <a href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non-profit

dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi</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)

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>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a

volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular

GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free

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

and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,

and numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced

Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High

School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software

Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001

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>Stormy Peters</h2>

<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>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a

volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular

GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free

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

and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,

and numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced

Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High

School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software

Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001

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>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</h2>

<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>

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<p>Karen M. Sandler is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME

  Foundation and prior to taking up this position was General Counsel of

  the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to

  do <a href="/about/outside#karen">pro bono legal work with

  Conservancy</a>, SFLC, and Question Copyright and serves as an officer

  of both the Conservancy and SFLC.  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