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Steering Committee

The Steering Committee (’SC’) is the main governing body of the Green Software Foundation. Participants are selected by Steering Member Organizations.

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Representatives

People either elected to hold leadership positions or selected to represent

Chris Lloyd-Jones
Head of Open Technologies @ Avanade
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Committee Vice-Chair
Gadhu Sundaram
Vice President @ NTT DATA
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Committee Chair

Members

Committee members who participate in committee activities

Ben Logan
Global Technology Lead @ UBS
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Committee Member
Carolin Rubner
Head of Research Group @ Siemens
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Committee Member
Chris Balcer
@ Avanade
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Committee Member
Christopher Liljenstolpe
Data Center Architecture & Sustainability @ Cisco
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Committee Member
Dora Smith
Senior Director @ Siemens
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Committee Member
Matthew Kropp
@ BCG
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Committee Member
Noah Broestl
Partner & Associate Director of Responsible AI @ BCG
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Committee Member
Patrick Chanezon
VP Developer Relations @ Microsoft
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Committee Member
Savannah Goodman
Data and Software Climate Solutions Lead @ Google
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Committee Member
Vinjosh Varghese
Data engineer @ UBS
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Committee Member
Yusuke Kobayashi
Senior Manager, R&D / Green Innovation @ NTT DATA
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Committee Member
The Steering Committee (SC) is the main governing body of the Green Software Foundation. Participants are selected by Steering Member Organizations. Each Steering Member Organization can nominate a primary and an alternate representative.

Manifesto

Responsibilities

SC members engage in thoughtful discussions to help provide:

  • Strategic definition and oversight;
  • Regulatory compliance and monitoring;
  • Maintenance of relationships and organizational identity;
  • Decisions on the OKRs of the Foundation;
  • Approval of the Foundation's Budget; and
  • Approval of changes to the Foundation's Charter.

Mutual accountability and support are essential among committee members. Committees are collaborative environments where everyone is responsible for their commitments and supports one another's contributions.

Authority

Decision-making

The SC makes all decisions by consensus. When the committee cannot reach consensus, it proceeds to make a decision by a Supermajority Vote.

A Supermajority Vote is an affirmative vote of no less than 3/4 of SC members in attendance and who have participated in at least 50% of the last four meetings. In this instance, each SC member has one vote.

Note the voting requirement for attendance/participation in at least 50% of the last four meetings gets waived if there have not yet been four completed meetings.