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								{% extends "base_conservancy.html" %}
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								{% block subtitle %}Officers - {% endblock %}
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								{% block category %}officers{% endblock %}
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								<h1>Officers</h1>
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								<p>The <a href="/about/team/board/">Board of Directors</a> of the Conservancy
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								elects its officers.  The current officers are:</p>
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								<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Board Chairperson</h2>
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								<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a
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								volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular
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								GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free
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								Software projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
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								and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,
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								and numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced
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								Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High
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								School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software
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								Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001
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								until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the founding team of SFLC.
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								Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College
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								in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
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								Cincinnati.  His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic
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								interoperability of Free Software languages.  He is also currently the
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								FOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director for the
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								  <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">SFLC</a>.</p>
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								<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</h2>
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								<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>
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								<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>
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								<p>Karen M. Sandler joined the SFLC in 2005 after working as an associate in
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								the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York
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								and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler received her law
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								degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent
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								Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law
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								Review. Sandler received her bachelor's degree in engineering
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								from The Cooper Union.</p>
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								{% endblock %}
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