The Board of Directors of the Conservancy -elects its officers. The current officers are:
- -Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and -Distinguished Technologist at Software -Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). 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 Affero GPL. 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 Loyola University in -Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn's Master's thesis -discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming -languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly -Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on -copyleft licensing.
- -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.
- -Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source -software projects for over 20 years. He acted as the leader of the -Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source -Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of -Software Freedom Conservancy. Martin earned a PhD from the University -of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for -his contributions to the open source community.
- -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, - 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 “Free - as in Freedom” podcast.
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