2025 OpenID Foundation Board of Directors

Published January 14, 2025

by Gail Hodges, Executive Director

I want to sincerely thank all OpenID Foundation members who voted in the 2025 elections for representatives to the OpenID Foundation Board of Directors.

Per the Foundation’s Bylaws and as of December 1, 2024, there were two Corporate Representative and two Community Representative seats up for election in 2025. 

Corporate Representatives

First, I am very pleased to welcome Atul Tulshibagwale and Mark Verstege back to the board of directors again in 2025 as the Corporate Representatives. Each year Corporate members of the Foundation elect up to two members to represent them on the board for one-year terms with all Corporate members in good standing eligible to nominate and vote for candidates. Both Atul and Mark are very active in the Foundation, and will bring great perspectives to the Board.

For instance, Atul continues to co-chair the Shared Signals WG, and coordinated two Gartner interop events for the WG this year to great effect. The Shared Signals WG is also entering a new phase, with the formation of a Shared Signals Special Topic Group to help accelerate Shared Signals adoption.  

Mark is firm supporter of the value of OIDF standards to support ecosystems in meeting their goals, and he sees the value of bringing ecosystem leaders closer together. Mark has been a key supporter of the newly formed Ecosystem Community Group to help ecosystems develop and share best practices.

Community Representatives

Second, I am delighted to welcome back Nat Sakimura and John Bradley who were re-elected to two-year terms as Community Representatives. Their long-time leadership and service to the Foundation is sincerely appreciated and valued. This is especially true in 2025 as the Foundation expands its reach into new ecosystem as well as continues to evolve to support new groups and projects.  

As noted, four individual members represent the membership and the community at large on the board, with offset-terms. George Fletcher and Mike Jones have one year remaining on their two-year terms and I look forward to their continued contributions in 2025.

Thank you kindly to Sebastian Rohr for nominating himself in 2025 as a Community Representative and for his continued contributions to the Foundation.

Please join me in thanking Nat, John, Atul, and Mark, as well as all of the Foundation’s board of directors, for their service and contributions to the Foundation and the community at large. And thank you to all Foundation members for your continued investment of time and membership that drives and supports the Foundation.

Gail Hodges
Executive Director
OpenID Foundation

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy-preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, the Financial Grade API has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.   

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