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'''Mikel Maron''' is a software developer specializing in web mapping and collaborative tech. He’s based in San Francisco, but is not there very much. Mikel started with OpenStreetMap in 2005, is currently serving his third year on the board, and advocates free and open mapping in the developing world. Mikel is currently a co-director of Ground Truth Initiative, which has implemented Map Kibera. He is also President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
 
* http://brainoff.com/http://www.systemed.net/
* http://friendfeed.com/mikelmaron
 
Other Directorships held: Ground Truth Initiative LLC, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (President)<br/>
Other substantial holdings: Ground Truth Initiative LLC
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'''Simone Cortesi''' (Director) is a IT Business Consultant based in Italy. He has been part of several Open Source projects, most notably PHP. He has been involved in OpenStreetMap since 2005, first as a contributor, then starting 2008 as a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Team.
 
* http://cortesi.com/ <br/>
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Simone
 
Other Directorships held: None <br/>
Other substantial holdings: None
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'''Iván Sánchez Ortega''' is vocational computer scientist, currently working as a GIS developer, based in Spain. A FLOSS advocate since the year 2000, he gained interest in neogeography and OSM in late 2006. He has been promoting OSM through Spain since then. His aims include OSMF local chapters, data imports, and promoting OSM usage in mapping agencies.
 
Other Directorships held: President of Asociación OpenStreetMap España <br/>
Other positions: Member of the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Cap%C3%ADtulo_Local_de_la_comunidad_hispanohablante OSGeo Spanish chapter], member of the [http://www.idee.es/show.do?to=pideep_que_es_grupo.EN Spanish SDI Working Group].
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'''Oliver Kühn''' (Director) is co-founder of skobbler, a company building software solutions based on OpenStreetMap. He has
Other Directorships held: [http://www.skobbler.com skobbler GmbH, Germany] <br/>
Other positions: None
 
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'''Richard Fairhurst''' was voted to the board at the recent AGM elections.
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Richard User:Richard on the wiki]
* http://www.systemed.net/
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'''Matt Amos''' was voted to the board at the recent AGM elections.
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SimoneMatt User:Matt on the wiki]
* http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/
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'''Dermot McNally''' was voted to the board at the recent AGM elections.
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mackerski User:Mackerski on the wiki]