Board of Directors

Apereo has four types of Directors on the Board. 

  • Organizational member seat, board members elected by Apereo's Educational Organizational Members and Commercial Affiliate Members. 
  • Individual Member Seat, board members elected by Individual Members who are part of the Friends of Apereo program.
  • Appointed Member Seat, board members nominated by the seated board of directors. Often affiliated with partner organizations such as AXIES or ESUP-Portail.
  • Ex-officio members such as the non-voting Treasurer and Executive Director of the foundation.

Our community is deeply grateful for the time and dedication of our board members and all they do for the foundation. 

For more information about board eligibility and the election process, visit the Apereo By-Laws page. 

The Apereo Board

Inge Donkervoort
Inge Donkervoort
Apereo Board Director
Inge is director/owner of DLearning. She develops online learning materials for companies and institutions she works with and teaches them how to use Xerte and other tools considering their goals and target group.
Wilma Hodges
Wilma Hodges
Secretary of the Apereo Board of Directors
Wilma is the Director of Training and eLearning Initiatives at Longsight and serves as the Sakai Community Manager.
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar
Apereo Board Director
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar is the Chief Executive Officer at Bitergia.
Shoji Kajitay
Shoji Kajita
Apereo Board Director
Shoji Kajita is a Professor at Nagoya University and an Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University.
Thierry Koscielniak
Thierry Koscielniak
Apereo Board Director
Thierry is Executive Advisor on Digital Strategy and Educational Innovation at Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology (ENSAM) in Paris, France.
Stephanie Lieggi
Stephanie Lieggi
Apereo Board Director
Stephanie Lieggi is the Executive Director of the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has worked since 2016.
Patrick Masson at AXIES Con 2022
Patrick Masson
Executive Director

Patrick joined Apereo as Executive Director in 2023, serving previously as Interim General Manager of the Foundation. Before Apereo, Patrick served as General Manager for the Open Source Initiative after working within higher education IT for over twenty years, including roles as CIO within the State University of New York and CTO at the University of Massachusetts' Office of the President. He was the Director of Technology at the SUNY Learning Network and the UCLA Media Lab.

Angela Newell
Angela Newell
Apereo Board Director
Angela Newell is the Director of Communication, Governance, and Innovation in the Office of the Vice President and Chief Information Officer, as well as the Director of the Open Source Program Office at The University of Texas at Austin.
Sam Lee Pan, University of Cape Town
Sam Lee Pan
Apereo Board Director
Sam Lee Pan worked at the University of Cape Town (Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching) from 2014 to 2023, starting as a Senior Learning Technologies Consultant and moving into her Learning Technologies Operations Manager role.
Salvador Pellicer CEO en EDF. Entornos de Formación S.L.
Salvador Pellicer
Apereo Board Director
Salvador is the CEO of EDF. Entornos de Formación S.L. EDF is an e-learning company established in 2006, working for universities and corporate companies across three continents. EDF is involved in Apereo Foundation, working closely as a commercial affiliate for many years.
Stuart Phillipson, University of Manchester
Stuart Phillipson
Apereo Board Director
Stuart Phillipson has worked in Higher Education and at the University of Manchester for some time now, including roles in eLearning, Digital Learning, Dev-Ops and IT Management. Over the last decade, he has worked on a variety of open source projects, and the most significant of these has been deploying and running one of the world’s largest lecture capture systems, operating entirely on open source software.
Theresa Rowe, Treasurer of Apereo Foundation
Theresa Rowe
Treasurer of Apereo Foundation
Theresa Rowe is an experienced Chief Information Officer and consultant. She is also an independent strategic IT consultant and leadership coach. She is especially interested in strategic IT planning, leadership professional development, and the building of a successful and strategic IT organization.
Wes Turner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wes Turner
Vice-Chair of the Apereo Board of Directors
Wes has been a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Computer Science at RPI has a hybrid student-led/academic center called the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS). RCOS is dedicated to promoting open source on campus and both advocates for and teaches courses in that area.
Josh Wilson, Flywheel Strategies
Josh Wilson
Chair of the Apereo Board of Directors
Josh is the principal at Flywheel Strategies and Vice Chair of the Apereo Foundation’s Board of Directors, where he leads strategic planning and leadership development.