Leadership

Director, System Operations, Alliander

Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at the CTO office at OSIsoft, focusing on technology, research and innovation projects related to IIoT, Open Source and Energy (Distributed Energy Resources). Daniel acts as technical liaison for strategic partners and represents OSIsoft at consortia. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Daniel collaborated in various international research and development projects related to both edge and cloud.

Daniel holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark).

Lucian is R&D Program Director and open source manager at RTE. He is leading the open source strategy of RTE which aims at moving the digitalization of the power grid into a new era. Early 2018 he started a collaboration with The Linux Foundation to launch LF Energy, an open source coalition to speed technological innovation and support the energy transition across the world.

Lucian has been with RTE since 2003 where he held several management positions in the fields of R&D, markets and finance.

Anne is a member of the open source organisation PowSyBl, part of the Linux Foundation Energy. PowSyBl is a high-performance computing library for grid simulation and planning. She is responsible for the coordination between the users and the contributions, the library documentation and makes some developments too. She is Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of PowSyBl and cares more generally about the open source community.

She joined RTE in 2014 as R&D engineer. She was expert of short and mid-terms load forecasts, in fields of software development, production and support. She worked on PowSyBl project since 2019, as her second experience at RTE.

Director, System Operations, Alliander

Benoît was born on the planet Krypton and was given the name Kal-El at birth. As a baby, his parents sent him to Earth in a small spaceship moments before Krypton was destroyed in a natural cataclysm. His ship landed in the French countryside, near the town of Amiens. He was found and adopted by farmers Paul and Agnes Jeanson, who named him Benoît Jeanson. Benoît developed various superhuman abilities, such as incredible strength and impervious skin. His foster parents advised him to use his abilities for the benefit of humanity, and he decided to fight for an energy efficiency focusing on power system, and supporting open source momentum. Benoît Jeanson resides in the country side near Paris, where he is a loving husband, father of 4 beautiful girls and support of a local chuch as deputy pastor.

Technical Chair, RIAPS & Professor, Vanderbilt University

Director of Engineering, Recurve

Shuli Goodman is the founder and Executive Director of LF Energy, a new Linux Foundation project that supports open source innovation in the energy and electricity sectors. LF Energy’s ambition is to accelerate the energy transition and the decarbonization of the world’s economies. Having spent the early part of her career enabling some of the world’s largest companies in the world to become Internet-ready, she has brought her digital-first, cross-industry background to the electricity sector. With a doctorate in Organizational Systems focused on innovation and the energy transition, Shuli has a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to solving complex, interdependent problems. She has nearly three decades experience in the startup and ongoing support of governance and multi-stakeholder engagement bodies that have been convened to enable decision-making and provide steering capacity for high-visibility and/or high-risk initiatives. Her goal is to inspire, train, and enable 10,000 developers, in the next 10 years, to digitally transform the world’s power systems.

Naomi has over 7 years experience in administrative and event management ranging across a variety of fields including hospitality, non-profit, oil and gas, research and technology. She is currently involved in events and project management at The Linux Foundation.

David is an expert on open source software (OSS) and on developing secure software. His works on OSS include “Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!“, “How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs“, “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, and “Open Source Software is Commercial”. He also helped develop the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy on OSS. His works on developing secure software include “Secure Programming HOWTO” and “Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)“. Other works of his include “Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice” and “Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial“.

David is the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and teaches graduate courses in developing secure software at George Mason University (GMU). David has a PhD in Information Technology, a Master’s in Computer Science, a certificate in Information Security, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, all from George Mason University (GMU), and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He lives in Northern Virginia.

Lindsay has over 10 years of experience in complex project and event management, strategy and logistics planning, and adult training and learning, in non-profit, education, and corporate settings.  Previously, she worked at The Linux Foundation from early 2016 – late 2018 on the global events team.  She is currently involved in project management at The Linux Foundation supporting LF Energy, Open SSF, and R-Consortium.

Michael Dolan is Senior VP of Strategic Programs responsible for Collaborative Projects and legal programs.

John is an open source veteran with a career spanning two decades. He has been a part of multiple aspects of open source communities, including a contributor, community leader, and in open source foundation leadership and strategy.

Carly Akerly attended the University of Dayton graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. Immediately following graduation, the Pennsylvania native moved to Chicago to pursue a career in social media and content management. Carly leads LF Energy’s social media and content efforts. In her free time, you can find Carly exploring the beautiful city of Chicago, writing, or crafting.

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