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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Staff - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Staff{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1>Staff</h1>
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler, currently Executive Director of Conservancy, was previously 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 an officer of
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both the Conservancy and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an
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associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in
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New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law
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degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar
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and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen
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received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is
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a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of
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the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in Freedom”
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podcast</a>.</p>
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
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<a id="bkuhn"></a>
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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 GNU/Linux
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operating system, and began contributing to various Free Software projects.
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He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software development
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consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and numerous small
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companies. He also spent one year teaching Advanced Placement Computer
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Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.
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In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and he
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served as its Executive Director from March 2001 until March 2005, when he
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left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), where he worked as
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SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from 2005 until October 2010,
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when he joined Conservancy as its Executive Director.
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Kuhn <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/mar/31/karen-joins/">passed
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the torch as Conservancy's Executive Director to Karen Sandler in March
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2014</a>, and continues on staff at Conservancy as its Distinguished
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Technologist. 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 dynamic
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interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>
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<h2>Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>
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<a id="tony"></a>
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<p>Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of
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business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and
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business development. Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently
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a Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms.
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Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual
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Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was
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responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in
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partnership with IBM's Software Group. In that role, Tony led
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negotiations and structured deals with market leaders in the web
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technology, e-commerce, retail, enterprise software, and financial
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services sectors. Tony also led various internal strategic initiatives,
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including an effort to provide business leaders of key emerging market
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opportunities with coordinated intellectual property development and
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monetization strategies, as well as the revamping and supervision of IBM's
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corporate-wide process for determining the value and availability of
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patents for sale. Prior to his tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in
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the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and
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licensing matters for clients in the medical, pharmaceutical and
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mechanical technology areas. Tony received his J.D. and his M.B.A. from
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the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of the New York bar and
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registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony
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is also an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit
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community, and has served on the boards of multiple non-profit
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organizations.</p>
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<h2>Denver Gingerich - FLOSS License Compliance Engineer</h2>
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<a id="denver"></a>
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<p>
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Denver works part-time managing the technical side of Conservancy's
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license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete and
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corresponding source (C&CS). His roles elsewhere have recently
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included financial trading software development on GNU/Linux and
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previously involved writing system software for hardware companies,
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including driver writing for the kernel named Linux at ATI (now AMD) and
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Qualcomm. He founded a company that designs and builds magnetic stripe
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readers for security hobbyists where he designed the hardware and
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developed the device's tools and firmware, which are both free software.
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Denver also writes free software in his spare time, with patches accepted
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into Wine, the kernel named Linux, and GNU wdiff. Denver received his
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BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations
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about digital civil rights and protecting the free software ecosystem,
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having spoken at conferences such as CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's
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Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.</p>
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{% endblock %}
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