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

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

<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

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

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

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

<h2>Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>

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<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