<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and

solving the problems of  Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>

<h2>Peter Brown</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>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)

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

the Western New England University School of Law. She is admitted to 

practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York 

and North Carolina.</p>

<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>

<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former

    members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of

    Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and

    occasionally advise Conservancy.</em></p>

<h2>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</h2>

<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990.  He wrote

the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide range

of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and binary

utilities.  He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions, Zembu Labs,

Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does GNU compiler and

tools development at Google.  He received a B.S. in Computer Science from

Yale University.</p>

<h2>Tom Tromey - Director Emeritus</h2>