Leadership
Apereo Staff
Patrick Masson
Executive Director
Patrick joined Apereo as Executive Director in January 2023, serving previously as Interim General Manager of the Foundation. Prior to 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. Prior to these, he served as the Director of Technology at the SUNY Learning Network and Director of the UCLA Media Lab.
Patrick is an adjunct instructor with SUNY Albany's College of Computing and Information and speaks frequently on topics related to open source software, open education, and educational technology. Patrick is the co-founder of EDUCAUSE's "Openness" Constituency Group and served on his local school board from 2014-2018.
Articles and Activities
Not where the world is going...where the world is.
Higher Ed OSPOs Garnering Millions in Funding. Why?
EDUCAUSE Shares Top 10 IT Issues, 2022: How Open Source Enables The Higher Education We Deserve
Introductory Letter from Apereo Foundation's Interim General Manager Patrick Masson
Open Apereo 2017 Videos: Open Source Values and Advocacy - Panel Discussion
Apereo Board
Francois Campbell
Apereo Board Director & Secretary
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2018
Current term, July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024
Francois Campbell is the Infrastructure and Technical Services Manager at OPENCOLLAB. As such, Apereo has played a large role in his life. He has been using and supporting Sakai since Sakai 2.7.
His experience has involved institutions of all sizes and shapes. Supporting higher education in Africa generally and South Africa in particular.
During this time he has been involved with initiatives in the South African sphere of Sakai. Developing tools for Offline Mobile Learning using Sakai for Unisa (Unipoole ) and NWU (eFundi Move).
Campbell's role is focused on the hands-on support, maintenance and rejuvenation of Sakai instances for Universities and other centres of Learning. Providing today's digital learner with the best experience possible, while addressing pressing concerns and limitations.
His goal for his tenure as an Apereo Board of Director is to expand Apereo's footprint in Africa.
Inge Donkervoort
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023
Inge Donkervoort lives in the Netherlands (Europe) and has been trained as a teacher. After a few years she started working as a consultant for the government and in businesses. She became interested in applying ICT for online communication, collaboration and online learning with schools, governments, health care institutions and companies and in 2010 she started her own business in online learning. 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.
Since 2009 Inge has been involved in the Xerte project working on various elements including the translation tool - the internationalization part. Since two year now Inge is working also on learning analytics and adaptive learning connected to Xerte.
Her vision and mission is "open source unless there is no other option". One of the great values of, for example, Xerte / open source is the share and reuse principle. So many beautiful online learning resources are being made that can be (re)used by others. Why reinvent the wheel when you don't have to? Within the Apereo Board she would like to further develop this principle and also play a role in the involvement of the various projects.
Shoji Kajita
Apereo Board Director
Appointed Member Seat
Appointed, February 1, 2021
Current Term, March 1, 2021 – February 28, 2024
Shoji Kajita is currently a Professor of Kyoto University in Japan with two appointments, one in the IT Planning Office, a part of the Institute of Information Management and Communication, and the other in the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies. Professor Kajita received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Information Engineering from Nagoya University in Japan in 1990, 1992, and 1998 respectively. At Nagoya University, he served as a Research Associate in the Graduate School of Engineering from 1995 to 1997 and an Assistant Professor in the Center for Information Media Studies (CIMS) from 1998 to 2001. During his work at CIMS, he localized WebCT into Japanese and took the role of WebCT evangelist in Japan as a means of promoting the use of ICT for teaching and learning. From 2002 to 2008, he was an Associate Professor at the Nagoya University Information Technology Center, where he developed the Nagoya University Portal and a next-generation Course Management System for Japanese universities. These works were contributed to the Jasig and Sakai communities for use with uPortal, CAS and the Sakai CLE. His contributions to Jasig and Sakai reflected on the participation in annual (formally semi-annual) Jasig Conferences since 2002 and Sakai Conferences since 2004. Before joining Kyoto University in 2011, his most recent position at Nagoya University was that of an Associate Professor in the Information Strategy Office, a part of the university's Information and Communications Headquarters.
Thierry Koscielniak
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2019
Current term, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Thierry is the Chief Digital Officer at the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers in Paris (Le Cnam)
Le Cnam is the only public higher education institution in France dedicated to life long learning and thus continuous learning with a strong activity in distance online courses. The Cnam National Digital Office is in charge of the implementation of courses digitalization and MOOC production.
During his career, Thierry has always been deeply involved in the use and promotion of open source EdTech : Moodle, Sakai, uPortal, Karuta, Mahara, Pod, H5P, and others. He believes and is committed in strong international networking and was a presenter at several conferences: JASIG, MoodleMoot, EDUCAUSE, Online Educa Berlin, Integrated System Europe. Thierry was the European member of the EDUCAUSE 2019 annual conference Program Committee and a member of Karuta Open Source Portfolio Governing Board.
As expert in EdTech in higher education, he performs an active watch and research on digital learning and presently the pedagogical uses of virtual reality and augmented reality. On behalf of Cnam, he is the founder of France Immersive Learning skills centre and vice-president of 3FOD, the French forum for digital learning stakeholders.
He is also involved in two associations of digital professionals in higher education: President of CSIESR, a French association, and Secretary of the Board of EUNIS, a European association. He steers a project using Karuta to provide Cnam lifelong learner with an E-portfolio for professional development based on competencies management.
Thierry holds a PhD in chemistry and bioinformatics from Sorbonne University.
Clint Lalonde
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First Elected, June 2022
Current term, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Lalonde is an educational technologist and advocate for the use of open educational resources and open education practices in higher education. He has a great interest in both open education and, specifically, open-source technologies and their wider use in higher education to support open education projects and initiatives.
Lalonde has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 25 years and is currently an Open Education Project Manager with BCcampus, a non-profit provincial consortium that provides leadership and support to the 25 publicly funded post-secondary institutions in the province of British Columbia. BCcampus works with institutions on collaborative projects in the areas of open education, education technology, online & blended learning, and teaching & learning practices in higher education.
In his 10 years with BCcampus, he has worked on numerous multi-institutional collaborative open technology initiatives. He administers open education project grants for the BC post-secondary system, and currently acts as the Product Owner in an Agile development project to rebuild the provincial open textbook repository. He is also a founding member of the BC Open EdTech Collaborative, a network of post-secondary educators who provide open-source software support to post-secondary educators interested in using open-source technologies in their teaching & learning practices. Lalonde is an Associate Professor in the School of Education & Technology program at Royal Roads University, and an occasional Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Victoria.
In the past, he was the Manager of Learning Technologies in the Centre for Teaching & Technology at Royal Roads University and has also worked at Camosun College supporting faculty in the development of distributed education courses and programs. In 2002, Lalonde attended the Application and Management of Information Technology (AMIT) program at the University of Victoria and completed his Masters in Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University in 2011.
Sam Lee Pan
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023
Sam Lee Pan has worked at the University of Cape Town (Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching) since 2014: starting as a Senior Learning Technologies Consultant and moving into her role as Learning Technologies Operations Manager. She is currently Acting Learning Technologies Co-ordinator for the cluster in the department (April - June 2023), and served this acting role previously during emergency remote teaching in the pandemic (Jan - Sept 2020). Her team maintains and supports the learning management systems, Vula (Sakai-based) and Amathuba (Brightspace), lecture recording system (Opencast-based) and various other educational technologies, including piloting a range of Apereo projects (e.g. Xerte, OnTask, OAE). Adopting the Tsugi framework has been vital in some of the custom LTI tool used in production.
Sam has a diverse background having completed a Masters in Environmental and Geographical Science, and worked in the field of Geographical Information Systems. Her passion has always been open source, and she has previous experience working with FOSS GIS and Open Educational Resources. She feels that collaboration is vital for adaptation and growth. She is also passionate about user support and enabling those to use the tools available to them. Having completed a PG Dip in EdTech after her Masters, she seeks to understand the power of technology in education. She also works closely with the developer and learning designer teams to move towards the goals of improving teaching and learning.
Salvador Pellicer
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2019
Current term, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Salvador is CEO at EDF (Entornos de Formacion).
Exclusively dedicated to the learning field with new technologies, Salvador works as a general manager at EDF. EDF is an e-learning company established in 2006, working for universities and corporate companies across 3 continents. EDF is involved in Apereo Foundation, working closely as a commercial affiliate for many years.
Salvador’s main goal is focused on Teaching and Learning and how educational technologies can be incorporated effectively.
Prior to EDF, Salvador started in 1995 using computers for education, thus creating a company called Macromoon Multimedia Solutions, where he was the winner of the Möbius Award in edutainment.
His drive for learning with technologies took his business one step further. In the year 2000, Salvador worked in the development of the first Spanish learning management system for the national market, where the results spoke for themselves in the Valencian Government learning department. His work in the project expanded the e-learning formula and he started to manage a new team. As a result, 25 institutions were added to the project, where all infrastructure, software, support and management is centralized in a specialized team that serves around 400.000 users.
The Valencian International University (www.viu.es) proposed an interesting collaborative opportunity where Salvador worked as an IT Educational manager, planning and developing a new online University using open source, in particular Sakai. Since then, Sakai is one of the fundamental technologies used in projects throughout his professional career.
Currently EDF is offering cloud services, as well as support and development in educational technology.
Stuart Phillipson
Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023
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. This has provided him with a wide range of experience in terms of commissioning open-source projects, funding their development, acting as a product owner and a keen community member.
Stuart finds that working with open-source software is a transformative experience. He says, "the sharing of knowledge, experience and expertise is often a key aspect of what makes open-source products so strong, their communities are the driving force behind their prosperity and something that he has not found to exist in the closed source world. Collaboration within and between open-source communities is something I am enthusiastic to develop and promote, knowing how much it has benefited myself and the institutions I have worked for."
Theresa Rowe
Treasurer of Apereo Foundation
Ex-Officio Member of the Apereo Board of Directors
Current term, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
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. She received the Educause Community Leadership Award 2014 and served as the coordinator for the Educause CIO Constituent Group from 2006 to 2015. She previously served on the board of Merit Network and the Apereo Foundation.
Rowe was named a Top 30 Technologists, Transformers, & Trailblazers by the Center for Digital Education in 2015. She was named a 2017 Premier 100 Technology Leader by Computerworld. Leadership experience includes creating evergreen strategic plans, leading successful governance models, developing and executing network plans, upgrading data-center facilities, implementing ERP systems, and implementing open-source solutions. Rowe spent 28+ years at Oakland University before entering the consulting world full-time.
Anne-Marie Scott
Apereo Board Director & Chair
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2018
Current term, July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024
Anne-Marie is Deputy Provost at Athabasca University, Canada’s largest open and online university, where she leads a number of transformational change projects. As a key member of the academic leadership team, she has the responsibility of ensuring operational excellence and high-quality delivery of academic operations, including learner experience, service and support. She would describe herself as a learning technologist, with a background in enterprise IT, and the sensibility of a humanities scholar, which she knows is an unusual combination! In addition to her work at Athabasca and for Apereo she writes, consults, and is often sought after as an expert in digital education and strategy.
Prior to becoming Deputy Provost at Athabasca University, Anne-Marie was Deputy Director of the Learning, Teaching and Web Services Directorate at the University of Edinburgh. She was at the University of Edinburgh from 2002 to 2019 and was responsible for the selection and development of uPortal as the University enterprise portal platform in 2004. She is an expert in enterprise systems – in addition to implementing uPortal, she led a multi-year project to replace the University Identity Management system, moving operations to a real-time SOA based architecture. The solution delivered was a blend of open source solutions (Grouper, OpenLDAP) and bespoke development.
Starting in 2011 she focused on University of Edinburgh’s learning technology provision, developing strategy and leading large institutional change projects that enhance the student learning experience. She was responsible for the provision of all the centrally provided VLE, eAssessment, ePortfolio and lecture recording, and media services in the institution, as well as the adoption of WordPress as an enterprise blogging platform, and the use of Jupyter Notebooks to support computational learning. She has a keen interest in data and learning analytics, and has led development of policy for the ethical use of these technologies in both of her institutions. Whilst at Edinburgh she supported the inclusion of OnTask into the Apereo Incubation process.
Since 2019 she has also been an advisor to the Open Edtech Collaborative (OpenETC) a project based in British Columbia which provides open source software technologies as a shared platform for the post-secondary sector, based on the principles of platform cooperativism.
Anne-Marie holds nd MA in English and Scottish Literature and a PG Dip in e-Learning, both from Edinburgh. One day she might do a PhD. She’s been telling herself that for a few years now
Wes Turner
Apereo Board Director
Individual Member Seat
First Elected, June 2022
Current term, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Wes Turner is the Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has a long association with Open Source Software beginning in 2001 when he joined GE Global Research in the Visualization and Computer Vision Group (VCV). VCV researchers had been the originators of the open-source Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and soon after became part of the original developer group for the open-source Insight Toolkit for Segmentation and Registration (ITK). At GE, Dr. Turner embraced these efforts and became part of the team applying open-source software to varied fields such as creating virtual environments for industrial planning, cancer detection, lesion sizing, and even forensic facial reconstruction. On leaving GE, he continued to work in and contribute to these open-source toolkits from within Kitware, a small business which was a major user of and which eventually became the primary maintainer of these same frameworks. While at Kitware, Dr. Turner focused on medical applications, primarily cancer detection and characterization, but also worked in the areas of informatics. He was the PI on multiple NIH grants including the open-source Visomics project for performing biological research in genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. Around 2010 the Veterans Administration recognized the need to open source their Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, forming an entity, OSEHRA, as the custodian of the effort. Kitware was one of the primary architects and Dr. Turner played a significant role in building the community, becoming the Director of Open Source Operations in 2013. On leaving Kitware, Dr. Turner joined Simquest, the originator of the open-source OpenSurgSim where he worked to add algorithms for supporting suturing.
Since 2016, Dr. Turner has been a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and became a Professor of Practice in 2023. 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. Dr Turner has been associated with the RCOS since joining RPI and among the courses he teaches are the studio course CSCI-2960/2961 RCOS and CSCI-4470 Open Source Software. These courses give students instruction and practical experience in the development and application of open source and are very popular among the students. RCOS alone has a yearly enrollment of 350+ students all contributing to open source. In June 2018, Dr. Turner became Director of RCOS, a position he continues to hold.
Joshua Wilson
Apereo Board Director & Vice Chair
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2021
Current term, July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024
Joshua Wilson is the Vice President and COO of Longsight. He leads client relations, business operations, project management, and strategic planning. In addition, Josh chairs the Sakai Community’s Marketing Team, leads the development of Sakai’s 3-year roadmap, and serves on Sakai’s Project Management Committee. He has been a leader in academic technology for more than a decade. Until 2017, he served as Associate CIO for Academic Technology at Brandeis University, where he directed the strategic and client-centered renewal of the University’s academic technology environment, including its open source LMS. Josh has been an innovator in emerging technologies for teaching and learning and he established the Brandeis MakerLab, a winner of multiple awards at World MakerFaire. Josh has served for more than a decade on the management team for the nationwide MISO Survey, which measures the effectiveness of IT and libraries at more than 150 higher education institutions. Over the past two decades, he has worked in Higher Ed IT in the United States at Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Bowdoin College.