Board and Advisors

Adam Fowler

Herald, TAC Chair

Adam Fowler has been involved in software delivery for 20 years. Involved with Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing apps since March 2020, he now leads The Herald Project within LFPH which provides a worldwide ‘insurance policy’ opensource software suite for pandemic response. Adam works at VMware and is undertaking a DPhil in Clinical Medicine.

Chris Moose

IBM

Chris Moose is a Partner in IBM’s Healthcare and Life Sciences where he advises companies on web3 and how it will transform healthcare.  During the Pandemic he was part of the IBM team that demonstrated the power of web3 in healthcare when he deployed the Nation’s first state-issued digital COVID credential with Governor’s office in the State of New York.  He continues to speak with other State and Federal officials about what comes next from this experience.

Outside IBM Mr. Moose is an advisor at Capital Factory, Texas’s largest technology accelerator and a Startup investor.

Lily Olson

Dimagi

Lily Olson is a Senior Director of Partnerships at Dimagi, a certified Benefit Corporation and leading social enterprise that develops innovative, open source technology for public health programs.

Over the course of her career, Lily has served in a variety of leadership capacities in helping frontline organizations better deliver critical community health services with open source technology. She has played a key role in driving the adoption of large-scale open source systems in several countries around the world, including the world’s largest digital nutrition system reaching more than 100 million households.

In the wake of COVID-19’s impact on health outcomes in the United States, Lily has directed her focus on expanding best of breed open source systems throughout the U.S. public healthcare system. She has secured multiple projects with State and Local governments to use CommCare in head-to-head competitions with much more expensive, closed source platforms like Salesforce. In Colorado, the State estimated that selection of Lily’s proposal for a COVID-19 response solution built on open source software saved the State of Colorado $15 million dollars over three years.

As a member of Linux Foundation Public Health’s governing board, Lily is excited to bring her deep knowledge of and experience in deploying open source digital health systems for underserved communities around the world. She looks forward to sharing this expertise in support of other open source companies who are competing with closed source offerings.

Maulie Dass

Cisco

Maulie Dass is the Global Lead for Cisco’s Innovation Labs, which works closely with local industries to create new technology solutions that solve common pain points and positively impact business, society, and the planet. She has been in the industry for over 20 years in a variety of tech, strategic, and customer facing leadership roles. Maulie is passionate about her customers, innovation, technology, inclusivity, and cheese pizza.

Adam Fowler

Herald, TAC Chair

Adam Fowler has been involved in software delivery for 20 years. Involved with Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing apps since March 2020, he now leads The Herald Project within LFPH which provides a worldwide ‘insurance policy’ opensource software suite for pandemic response. Adam works at VMware and is undertaking a DPhil in Clinical Medicine.

Carole Corley

IBM

Carole Corley is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Watson Health, focused on delivering open source solutions for healthcare.  She is an architect and developer of the LinuxForHealth open source project and is currently creating the LinuxForHealth HeathOS.

Danny Burkes

VMware

As Senior Director of VMware Tanzu Labs Application Services, Danny leads a team of  world-class professionals who work directly with VMware’s clients to transform the way they plan, build, run and maintain great quality software.

Through his extensive background as a software developer in both startups and large enterprise environments, Danny has a unique understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing today’s modern software teams.

Since transitioning into leadership, Danny has held a variety of customer-facing roles; from leading the flagship Pivotal Labs San Francisco business, founding Pivotal Labs in Tokyo and now managing all of VMware Tanzu Labs Application Services across Asia Pacific.

Danny has worked closely with several of VMware Tanzu’s most impactful and successful client relationships, including CoreLogic, DBS and Yahoo! Japan. Previously he served in a variety of senior technical positions at Lotus Development, General Magic and Infoteria Japan.

Ed Warnicke

Cisco

Ed Warnicke is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems. He has been working for over a decade in many areas of networking and Open Source. He was the longest serving founding TSC member at OpenDaylight TSC. He was a founding TSC member at ONAP. Ed is currently the FD.io TSC Chair, and a founder of and active contributor to the Network Service Mesh project. Ed has a masters in Physics (String Theory) from Rutgers University.

Brian Behlendorf

The Linux Foundation

Brian is the GM, Open Source Security Foundation, previously Executive Director for Hyperledger and Linux Foundation Public Health. Brian was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum 2011-2012. He also worked at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2009 and the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 on advancing the use of open standards through the use of open source software.

Greg Kroah-Hartman

The Linux Foundation

Greg is a Fellow at the Linux Foundation and is responsible for the Linux kernel stable releases. He is also the maintainer of a variety of different kernel subsystems (USB, char/misc, staging, etc.) and has written a few books about Linux kernel development.

Harper Reed

Harper Reed is a technologist that predicts the future for a living. He spends his life traveling around the world showing people the possibilities of tech and sharing his experiences to propel the greater good, all while raising the level of fun in the room.

Harper knows his incredible luck has led him to achieve many wonderful things. At PayPal, his roles as Head of Commerce and as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence allowed him to guide teams into the thrilling future of e-commerce. The technology he developed as co-founder at startup Modest Inc. had initially garnered the attention of PayPal, which led them to acquire Modest only a few years after launch.

Harper also believes the talent of a great bunch of humans can transform an organization like nothing else and he uses that belief to strengthen, deploy, and inspire every team he works with. Previously, Harper was CTO of the Obama 2012 campaign, where he was the first to bring the mentality and connective capabilities of tech to the political stage. He was also the CTO of Threadless.com, where he pioneered crowdsourcing and grew the company from a 12 person startup to a multi-million dollar enterprise. Harper is an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, sits on the advisory boards for IIT Computer Science and the Royal United Service Institute, and is on the Cornell College Board of Trustees.

You can find Harper hacking on personal projects and enjoying life in Chicago with his partner, Hiromi and their beautiful and bizarre poodle, Lulu.

Joel Selanikio

Joel is a physician, TED speaker, inventor, emergency responder, and consultant working in the fields of technology, healthcare, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, social innovation, big data, child health, and disaster response. 

A founding member of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Roster of Experts, he is the winner of both the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare and the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation for the development of the Magpi mobile data collection system, the first cloud-based application created for global health and international development.

Joel has consulted and/or spoken at Davos, Foo Camp, WHO, UNICEF, IFRC, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Google, DARPA, CNN, Fox News, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Royal Society of Medicine, and for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry – and has been profiled by the Guardian, Wired, Forbes, TED, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the BBC, NPR, Information Week, and the Washington Post, among many other publications.

An emergency responder and former CDC epidemiologist and outbreak investigator, in December 2014 – January 2015, he was the lead physician at the IMC Ebola Treatment Center at Lunsar, Sierra Leone. As an officer of the Public Health Service, Joel served as Chief of Operations for the HHS Secretary’s Emergency Command Center after the 9/11 attacks. In 2005, he was given the Haverford Award for Humanitarian Service for his work in treating tsunami victims in Aceh.

Josh Aas

Let’s Encrypt, Internet Security Research Group

Josh is the co-founder and Executive Director of Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit organization that provides free https certificates to over 200 million websites. Prior to Let’s Encrypt Josh worked on the Firefox web browser at Mozilla, and the Linux kernel at SGI.

LJ Tan

Immunization Action Coalition

Prior to joining the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), LJ was the director of medicine and public health at the American Medical Association (AMA), a position he held since 2008. From 1997 to 2008, he was the AMA’s director of infectious disease, immunology, and molecular medicine.

LJ was a voting member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Vaccine Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2013, where he served on the adult immunization, vaccine safety, and healthcare worker immunization working groups, and chaired the immunization infrastructure working group. For more than ten years, he was the AMA’s liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, where he served on the influenza, pneumococcal, zoster, and adult immunization working groups.

He co-founded and currently co-chairs the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit. He serves or has served on the steering committees/advisory boards of the 317 Coalition, the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), the Unity (United for Adolescent Vaccination) Consortium, the National Network for Immunization Information, and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable and on the IAC scientific advisory board. 

LJ received his Master of Science degree in biology at New York University and earned his PhD in microbiology/immunology from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. LJ is an editor for Vaccine, BMC Infectious Diseases, Medscape Infectious Diseases, and a member of the ESCMID Vaccine Study Group and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. LJ has been invited to address international, national, and state immunization audiences on issues ranging from vaccine financing to risk management in vaccine safety to emerging infectious diseases.

LJ has received several awards for his advocacy work including the 2011 CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Honor Awards: Excellence in Partnering recognition, and most recently was awarded the American Pharmacists Association’s national Friend of Pharmacy Award. As a former part-time faculty member at the Institute for Science Education and Science Communication, Columbia College, Chicago, he received the 2000 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Mark Grabowsky

Mark is a Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Specialist in Washington, DC and has over 34 years of experience in the medical field. He holds a medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.  Dr. Grabowsky has also held senior level posts at the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute of Health, American Red Cross, and the Canadian International Development Agency.  He has over 25 years of experience at the forefront of significant global health challenges including efforts to reduce measles and malaria deaths in developing countries and advance HIV-prevention strategies. At NIH, he was Chief of HIV Prevention Research and HIV Vaccine Clinical Development.  At CDC, he founded and led global partnerships for measles and malaria control  and has worked on disease control efforts in over 30 countries.  With the UN Special Envoy’s Office he was responsible for directing strategic partnerships to finance the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.  As Deputy Director of the National Vaccine  Program Office he was on the national H1N1 Task Force and led efforts to increase flu vaccination nationally. His most recent position was as Chief Medical Officer at Pantheryx, Inc.  He currently resides in New York and San Juan.