Leadership

Board of Directors

The OpenID Foundation was formed by an initial board of seven members selected from the OpenID Community to get the Foundation off the ground. It has since expanded to also include representation of eight companies committed to OpenID. These members are:

Community Board Members

• Brian Kissel (JanRain) – Chair
• Chris Messina (independent)
• David Recordon (Facebook) – Committee Liaison
• Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)
• Nat Sakimura (NRI) – Vice Chair
• Scott Kveton (Urban Airship)
• Snorri Giorgetti (OpenID Europe)
• Allen Tom (Yahoo!)

Corporate Board Members

• Booz Allen Hamilton – Mike Ozburn – Treasurer
• Facebook – Luke Shepard
• Google – Eric Sachs
• IBM – Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam
• Microsoft – Michael B. Jones – Secretary
• PayPal – Andrew Nash
• VeriSign – Gary Krall
• Yahoo! – Raj Mata

Members of the community can monitor board discussions and communicate collectively with the board on the board mailing list.

The OIDF Bylaws from June, 2007 – Founding Bylaws