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<h1>Evaluation Committee</h1>
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<p>The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become
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members of Conservancy.
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Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of
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Directors</a> <a href="/news/2013/apr/23/linksvayer-and-eval-committee/">formally
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charters and authorizes</a> this Committee to offer <a href="/members/">membership to
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projects</a> <a href="/members/apply/">that apply</a>
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for membership in Conservancy.</p>
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<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>
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<p>Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a group
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of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file and print
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server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet in a
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distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by all Linux
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distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and products
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worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba development efforts
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and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using the Samba code
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commercially.</p>
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<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and
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solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>
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<h2>Tom Callaway</h2>
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<p>Tom Callaway has been working for Red Hat since 2001. He started in
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Sales Engineering and has been the Fedora Engineering Manager since 2008.
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He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to
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2011. Tom also maintains or co-maintains a large number of Packages in
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Fedora (currently 390) and is leading the Fedora Packaging Committee,
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responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices. Additionally, he is
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responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues. Tom frequently represents
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Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his
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best not to make too big of a fool of himself.</p>
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<p>When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science
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fiction, and pinball.</p>
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<h2>Karl Fogel</h2>
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<p>Karl Fogel is an open source developer, author, and copyright reform
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activist. He is a partner at <a href="http://opentechstrategies.com/">Open
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Tech Strategies</a> which provides strategic consulting for collaborative
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open technology ventures. He is also the founder and executive director
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of <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/">QuestionCopyright.org</a>. After
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working on CVS and writing Open Source Development With CVS (Coriolis, 1999),
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he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion
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project. Based on his experiences there, he
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wrote <a href="http://producingoss.com/">Producing Open Source Software: How
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to Run a Successful Free Software Project</a> (O'Reilly, 2005), which is a
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highly-cited resource in the open source community. After a brief stint as an
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Open Source Specialist at Google in 2006, he left to found
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QuestionCopyright.org. In addition to QuestionCopyright.org, he also serves
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as Open Civics Development Specialist at Civic Commons and sat on the board
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of the Open Source Initiative. Fogel now serves as the chairperson of the
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Evaluations Committee.</p>
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<h2>Mark Galassi</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 time. Mark
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earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the Institute for
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Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook.</p>
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<h2>Mike Hostetler</h2>
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<p>Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud
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father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has
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had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and
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JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC,
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the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily
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involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team,
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participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the
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Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking,
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fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.</p>
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</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 Software
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projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and
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software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and
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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
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from 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>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
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<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, and is
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chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to 2012 he served
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as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a Senior Fellow. In 2000
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he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data mass collaboration
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platform.</p>
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<h2>Tom Marble</h2>
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<p>Tom Marble is best known for being the first “OpenJDK
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Ambassador” on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the
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Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in
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open source projects and his interest in intellectual property by
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co-organizing the legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open
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source
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conference, <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">FOSDEM</a>. Marble
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is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an
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organizer for <a href="http://www.clojurebridge.org/">ClojureBridge</a>, a
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weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well
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as Debian's participation
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in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of
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Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and
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legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for
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electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense,
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and multiplayer online gaming.</p>
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<h2>Deb Nicholson</h2>
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<p>Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and
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social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she
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started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an
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enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about
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software patents, to project maintainers about leadership and to activists
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about free software. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at
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the <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network</a>
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and the Community Manager at <a href="https://mediagoblin.com/">GNU
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MediaGoblin</a>. She also serves on the board
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at <a href="https://openhatch.org/">Open Hatch</a>, a.k.a. Free Software's
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Welcoming Committee. Nicholson also organizes Boston Software Freedom
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Day.</p>
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<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously
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the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME
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Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
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Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the
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Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work
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with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining
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SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,
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Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and
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London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where
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she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and
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Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering
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from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award
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and also co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in
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Freedom” podcast</a>.</p>
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<h2>Tony Sebro</h2>
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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 a
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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 negotiations
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and structured deals with market leaders in the web technology, e-commerce,
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retail, enterprise software, and financial services sectors. Tony also led
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various internal strategic initiatives, including an effort to provide
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business leaders of key emerging market opportunities with coordinated
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intellectual property development and monetization strategies, as well as
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the revamping and supervision of IBM's corporate-wide process for
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determining the value and availability of patents for sale. Prior to his
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tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in the New York office of Kenyon
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& Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and licensing matters for clients in
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the medical, pharmaceutical and mechanical technology areas. Tony received
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his J.D. and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He received his
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B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of
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the New York bar and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and
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Trademark Office. Tony is also an active participant in and supporter of
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the non-profit community, and has served on the boards of multiple
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non-profit organizations.</p>
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