FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors
The activities of the FreeBSD Foundation are directed by members of its Board of Directors.
Justin T. Gibbs, President.
Justin is a Senior Software Architect currently working on storage systems for Spectra Logic. His past experience has ranged from office application development at Microsoft to embedded systems for general aviation aircraft at Avidyne. A member of the FreeBSD Development Team since 1993, Justin has contributed to many areas of the FreeBSD operating system, and is best known for his work on the SCSI subsystem. After serving on the FreeBSD Core Team from 1995-2000 he created the FreeBSD Foundation to provide a non-profit framework for funding FreeBSD development and community support.
Dr Robert N. M. Watson, Vice President.
Robert is a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory investigating operating system security, novel CPU architectures, automated program analysis, and automated program instrumentation. Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory, he was a Senior Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA ISSO, a leading security research and development organization, directing government and commercial research contracts for customers that include DARPA, the US Navy, and Apple Computer. He is a member of the FreeBSD Core Team, and has contributed to FreeBSD security and networking projects.
Deb Goodkin, Secretary and Treasurer.
Deb has been with the foundation since August, 2006. She has spent 20+ years working in marketing, sales, and development of data storage devices. She earned an MSEE from the University of Santa Clara, and a BSCE from the University of California, San Diego.
Dr Hiroki Sato, Director
Hiroki joined the FreeBSD Development Team in 2000. He has been working as a member of the Core Team since 2006 and the Release Engineering and Documentation Engineering Teams since 2004. His primary focus is maintaining the project's documentation and text processing software, and he is actively promoting FreeBSD in Asian countries by hosting BSD-related conferences. He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Tokyo University of Science and now works as a researcher at the university.
Dru Lavigne, Director.
Dru Lavigne is currently the Community Manager of the PC-BSD Project, an open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. She is also Chair of the BSD Certification Group which maintains a global certification standard for system administration on BSD based operating systems. She has been using FreeBSD since 1996, has authored several BSD books, and oversees the PC-BSD and FreeNASª 8 documentation projects.
Erwin Lansing, Director.
Erwin works as a Network and System Engineer at DK Hostmaster A/S running the danish .dk ccTLD. He previously held a position as Network Systems Engineer at the Danish incumbent ISP, TDC and pil.dk, a webhosting company. He joined the FreeBSD Ports Development Team in 2003 and has been a member of the Ports Management Team since 2005. He is mainly working on the package building cluster, creating and distributing ready-to-install binary packages of 3rd party software for FreeBSD, in addition to regression testing the integration of FreeBSD with 3rd party software projects.
Sam Leffler, Director.
Sam has been actively working with UNIX since 1975 when he first encountered it at Case Western Reserve University. While working for the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley he helped with the 4.1BSD release and was responsible for the release of 4.2BSD. He has contributed to almost every aspect of BSD systems; most recently working (again) on the networking subsystem.
Ed Maste, Director.
Ed first became involved with FreeBSD as a result of his work with the OS team at Sandvine, Inc. in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, after assisting Robert Watson with solving issues with the FreeBSD network stack, he received his commit bit.
Since then, he has moved on to lead the OS team, and has a number of developers working for him, in the area of bringing enhancements from FreeBSD into Sandvine's OS, contributing back changes that they have made, and supporting work that they find valuable by contracting FreeBSD committers.