The Board of Directors of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organization. As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors for 2010-2011 consists of the following individuals:
Dave Cridland (Chair)
Dave Cridland is VP Engineering (XMPP) at Isode, heading up the team working on M-Link, and also serving on their management team. He has been a member of the XSF since 2007, and served on the XMPP Council three times. He has also authored several RFCs and XEPs. He joined the XSF Board of Directors in 2011.
Florian Jensen
Florian Jensen is CTO at Flosoft.biz and has been working with XMPP since 2004. Florian is currently studying Computer Science with Management in London. He has been a member of the XSF since 2007, and has been a member of the XSF Board of Directors since 2009.
Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor has been working with open-source before it was even called open-source and is currently working at Mozilla on their Release Engineering team. He has been active in the XMPP community and is constantly preaching to anyone who will listen the benefits of PubSub and Messaging. This is his second term as a member of the XSF Board of Directors and was the Google Summer of Code Org Admin for the XSF in 2010.
Ashley Roach
Ashley Roach is a Product Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. working on XMPP technologies. Prior to Cisco, he was Product Manager at NewsGator Technologies. He has been working with XMPP since 2003, when he joined Jabber, Inc. where he was the product manager for the Jabber XCP server and launched the JabberNow appliance. He joined the XSF Board of Directors in 2011. Ashley holds and MBA from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.
Chris Christou
Chris Christou is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. He currently leads a team of engineers who are architecting and designing XMPP-based chat solutions for Public Sector clients, with an emphasis on applying XMPP-based products in deployed, bandwidth limited environments. Chris also leads other projects for our clients, including those related to video, voice, and web conferencing implementations and IP network design and deployment. Chris has been active within the IETF, having authored/contributed to multiple RFCs. He joined the XSF Board of Directors in 2011.
