2026 Apereo Board Candidates

David P. Bauer

Executive Director, Academic, Research, and Emerging Technologies

University of Dayton

First Election

David Bauer is a seasoned higher education technology leader, currently serving as Executive Director of Academic, Research, and Emerging Technologies at the University of Dayton, a Catholic Marianist research university in Ohio. In this role, he oversees teams dedicated to advancing technology for teaching, learning, and research, with a portfolio spanning academic systems, classroom technology, application development, user experience, emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence. David works closely with the CIO to shape the university’s academic technology strategy, including cloud architecture, platform integrations, and governance. Under his leadership, the division serves as the primary outreach partner to academic units across campus, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and fostering collaborative innovation.

Since 2012, David has guided the University of Dayton’s partnership with the Apereo community, beginning as a Sakai institution. He is now a founding contributor to LTI Forge, an Apereo Incubation Project that creates collaborative, LMS-agnostic LTI tools for enterprise learning platforms. His ongoing involvement, including service on the Sakai PMC, reflects a deep commitment to open-source collaboration and the advancement of shared educational infrastructure.

At UD, David also co-chairs the AI Oversight Committee, guiding the ethical adoption of AI and other emerging technologies to further the university’s academic mission. He is an active supporter and a regular advocate for open platforms and open standards as foundational elements of higher education infrastructure.

I want to serve on the Apereo Board because the Foundation's mission matters now more than ever. Higher education is facing big challenges from vendor consolidation, rapid AI development, and tighter budgets. These issues make it harder, but also more important, to keep community-owned, open infrastructure strong. I have spent almost 15 years in the Apereo community, serving on the Sakai PMC and now helping to launch LTI Forge, an Apereo Incubation Project designed to address real gaps in enterprise learning platforms. At the University of Dayton, I lead academic and emerging technology strategy, including AI governance across the institution. I know how board decisions affect people doing the work. I am especially interested in how the Foundation helps new projects like LTI Forge, ensuring the path from idea to lasting open infrastructure is clear and well-supported. I want to bring a practical perspective to the Apereo Board and help guide the Foundation through this pivotal period with clarity and purpose.

You can learn more about David Bauer from his LinkedIn and EDUCAUSE profiles.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpbauer/

EDUCAUSE profile: https://members.educause.edu/david-bauer

David Millman

Associate Dean for Technology and CIO
New York University Libraries

First Election

David Millman is the Associate Dean for Technology and CIO at New York University Libraries, where he oversees technologies supporting digital collections, preservation, scholarly communication, and repository services. His team is active in the ebook open-source platforms and standards communities, as well as in digital preservation. Millman has recently been the Principal Investigator on several Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants focused on preserving new forms of scholarship.

Before NYU, Millman was the Senior Director of Research, Teaching and Learning Technologies in the central IT unit at Columbia University. He brings over 40 years of experience in the higher education software community.

Millman and his team have contributed to a number of open source efforts.  He was a lead investigator in the creation of the ArchivesSpace software and in the implementation of its sustainability plan. More recently, his group has contributed to the IIIF, InvenioRDM, and DSpace projects. At Columbia, his team contributed to the Sakai and uPortal projects.

[Millman] is excited at the opportunity to participate more directly in advancing open source software in higher education and the values it demonstrates, such as transparency and community participation--which are more important now than ever.

Millman holds a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

NYU Libraries Website: https://library.nyu.edu/ 

Jack Seuss

VP of IT & CIO
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

First Election

Jack Suess serves as the VP of IT & CIO of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he leads initiatives to enable technology that supports and advances the institutional mission as a public high-research institution. Jack has been actively involved in EDUCAUSE, Internet2/InCommon, 1EdTech, and the REN-ISAC where he has served on each of those governance groups and served as Board Chair for EDUCAUSE and 1EdTech. He has presented and written broadly across the fields of advanced networking, cybersecurity, identity management, educational technology, and research computing. 

My start in open source was leading the technical infrastructure group in systems and networks. In the mid-1980’s I supported BSD unix and we implemented both the MIT Athena and CMU Andrew projects. In 2000, I got very involved in the Internet2 Middleware initiative and UMBC was one of the early adopters of middleware tools being developed and UMBC continues to use Shibboleth, Grouper, and other open source tools in our identity stack. In 2022, I became interested in the Open Science initiative and have loosely followed the OSPO++ initiative. Today, I’m both excited and concerned about the impact of AI. I’m excited about how AI coding tools can better support development and improve the security of coding, but worried about attacks to important program libraries that can cause cybersecurity issues.

I’m interested in joining Apereo to be part of helping higher education become better at fully utilizing open source and telling the story of why open source is absolutely necessary in today’s enterprise environment.

Jack holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Applied Math) and M.S. in Operations Analysis from UMBC. 

Jack's UMBC bio is on the UMBC web site.