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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Officers - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Officers{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1>Officers</h1>
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<p>The <a href="/about/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 Software Freedom Law Center
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(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from
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2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive
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Director. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from
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Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the
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University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for
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dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</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
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currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response
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division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the
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HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite,
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and the muon tomography project. In 1997, Mark took a couple of years off
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from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the
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Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)
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writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the
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HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part
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time. Mark earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the
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Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. </p>
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<h2>Peter Brown - Treasurer</h2>
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<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more
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than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free
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Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its
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Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also
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been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and
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worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is was the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation
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from June 2011 through March 2014. Prior to taking up this position was
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General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues
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to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, and Question Copyright and serves as
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an officer of both the Conservancy and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen
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worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn &
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Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen
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received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a
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James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology
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Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The
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Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also
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co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in Freedom”
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podcast</a>.</p>
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{% endblock %}
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