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>

<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>

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

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

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<p>Daniel B. Ravicher is the <a href="http://pubpat.org">PUBPAT</a>'s

Executive Director and a Lecturer in Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of

Law.  Labeled a modern day 'Robin Hood' by Science magazine, and awarded

an Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurship, Professor

Ravicher is a registered patent attorney who writes and speaks frequently

on patent law and policy, including twice testifying as an invited witness

before Congress on the topic of patent reform.  As a result of his

accomplishments and professional reputation, Professor Ravicher was named

to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's ’50 Most

Influential People in IP‘ list and IP Law & Business magazine's

‘Top 50 Under 45’ list.  Professor Ravicher received his law

degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the

Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service

Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and

Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude

with University Honors from the University of South Florida.  Professor

Ravicher writes about patent policy issues for The Huffington Post and

patent related corporate valuation issues for Seeking Alpha.  He is

admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the

Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District Courts for the Southern and

Eastern Districts of New York, the State of New York, and the United

States Patent and Trademark Office.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler - Pro Bono Counsel</h2>

<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 pro bono

  the <a href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free as in Freedom&rdquo;

  podcast</a>.</p>

<h1>Contractors</h1>

<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering &amp; System Administration Contractor</h2>

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