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<h1>Staff</h1>
<h2>Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
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<h2 id="karen">Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
<p>Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of Conservancy. Karen is known
as a cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software, particularly in
relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy,
she was executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was
general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen
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<p>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.</p>
<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
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<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
Distinguished Technologist at Software
Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. 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
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discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming
languages. Kuhn received the <a
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
copyleft licensing.</p>
<h2>Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>
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<h2 id="tony">Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>
<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
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Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of the New York bar and
registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony
is also an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit
community, and has served on the boards of multiple non-profit
organizations.</p>
<h2>Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>
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<h2 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>
<p>Brett Smith began his FLOSS advocacy in 2000 at college, organizing
student groups and discussing the issues with professors and journalists. He
also spent a couple of those summers interning at the Free Software
Foundation, and working in various assisting roles there when he returned to
campus. Later on he worked as the FSF's License Compliance Engineer from
2006-2012, helping to shepherd the GPLv3 drafting process and do outreach
after the license was released. From there, he worked as a Systems Engineer
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
an <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> maintainer at Curoverse before
joining Conservancy as Director of Strategic Initiatives in 2016. He holds a
BS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.</p>
<h2>Denver Gingerich - FLOSS License Compliance Engineer</h2>
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<h2 id="denver">Denver Gingerich - FLOSS License Compliance Engineer</h2>
<p>
Denver works part-time managing the technical side of Conservancy's
license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete and
corresponding source (C&CS). His roles elsewhere have recently
included financial trading software development on GNU/Linux and