FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors
The activities of the FreeBSD Foundation are directed by members of its Board of Directors.
Robert N. M. Watson, President.
Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory investigating operating system and network security. Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, 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. His research interests include operating system security, network stack structure and performance, and windowing system structure. He is a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Justin T. Gibbs, Vice President.
Justin has been a member of the FreeBSD Development Team since 1993. He served on the Core Team from 1995-2000. Justin has contributed to many areas of the FreeBSD operating system, and is best known for his work on the SCSI subsystem.
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.
Jonathan M. Bresler, Director.
Jonathan joined the FreeBSD Development Team in 1993, and served on the Core Team from 1995-2000. He also served as the FreeBSD Project's postmaster from 1994-2007.
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. For the past five years he has been an independent consultant, doing everything from system design to expert witness work.
Paul Saab, Director.
Paul joined the FreeBSD Development Team in 2000. At Yahoo!, Paul spent 6.5 years as a member of and later leading their OS development group. His group was responsible for improving and scaling FreeBSD for Yahoo!'s needs, exposing him to many areas of FreeBSD. He currently serves as Powerset's Systems Architect, developing the world's first pure-play natural language search engine.
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.