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The Open Group Forum and Work Group Officers

ArchiMate® Forum
Director: Kelly Cannon, The Open Group
Chair: Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, BNP PARIBAS
Vice-Chair: Leoš Mates, DAIN s.r.o.

Architecture Forum
Director: Daniel Hutley, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Celine Lescop, AXA
Co-Chair: Richard Gornitsky, CNO

Assured Dependability Work Group
Director: John Linford, The Open Group
Chair: Kyohichi Matsuzawa, Kyndryl Japan
Vice-Chair: Hirobumi Kawamura, Rococo Co, Ltd.

Austin Group
Chair: Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Organizational Representative, IEEE PASC: Donald W. Cragun
Organizational Representative, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22: Nicholas Stoughton
Organizational Representative, The Open Group: Eric Blake
Technical Editor: Geoff Clare, The Open Group

The Digital Portfolio Work Group
Digital Portfolio Program Manager:  Sonia Gonzalez, The Open Group
Director:  Michelle Horrobin, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Christopher Frost, Fujitsu
Co-Chair: <vacant>

Platform Forum
Director/Chair: Andrew Josey, The Open Group

EMMM™ Forum
Director: Stuart McGregor, The Open Group South Africa
Chair: <vacant>

Energistics Consortium
Consortium Director: Dennis Stevens, The Open Group 
Consortium Consultant: Donna Marcotte
Board of Directors

INITIATE Work Group 
Acting Chair/Co-Chair: Sridhar PV, Wipro
Program Manager:  Minakshi Kargeti, The Open Group

The Open Group Data Scientist Work Group
Director: Deborah Schoonover, The Open Group
Chair: Dan Riley, Kyndryl

The Open Group FACE® Consortium
Director:  Alicia Taylor, The Open Group
Assoc. Director: Lauren Rousseau, The Open Group
Chair: Alan Hammond, US Army PEO Aviation
Vice-Chair: Dr. James 'Bubba' Davids, L3Harris

The Open Group Healthcare Forum
Director: Dr. Jason Lee, The Open Group
Chair: Scott Sloan, Kyndryl
Vice-Chair: Oliver Kipf, Philips

The Open Group IT4IT™ Forum
Director: Michelle Horrobin, The Open Group
Co-Chair-Rob Akershoek: DXC
Co-Chair: Satya Misra, HCL Software
Vice-Chair: Etienne Terpstra-HollanderEenpool B.V.

The Open Group Open Footprint® Forum
Director: Heidi Karlsson
Co-Chair:  Sammy Lakshmanan, PwC
Co-Chair: Arjen van de Voort, Intertek

The Open Group Open Process Automation™ Forum
Director: Aneil Ali, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Jacco Opmeer, Shell
Co-Chair: Harirajan Padmanabhan, hpad, Inc. (Interim)

The Open Group Open Professions Work Group
Directors: Andras Szakal & Deborah Schoonover, The Open Group
Chair: Tony Black, Kyndryl

The Open Group SOSA™ Consortium
Director: Sharon Langbehn, The Open Group
Chair: Dr. Ilya Lipkin, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
Vice-Chair: Steve Davidson, Raytheon

Real-time and Embedded Systems (RTES) Forum
Director: <vacant>
Chair: <vacant>

Security Forum
Director: John Linford, The Open Group
Chair: Mark Simos, Microsoft
Vice-Chair: Hasan Yasar, SEI - Carnegie Mellon University

Semantic Interoperability Work Group
Director: (acting) Judy Cerenzia, The Open Group
Chair:  Ron Schuldt, Data-Harmonizing, LLC

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Work Group
Director: <vacant>

Open Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF)
Director: John Linford, The Open Group
Co-Chair: David Kaiser, Seagate Technology
Co-Chair: Al Marshall, NASA SEWP

The OSDU® Forum
Program Director: Dennis Stevens, The Open Group 
Chair: Patrick Kelly, Chevron
Vice-Chair: Jane McConnell, Spinning Yarns Limited

Government Enterprise Architecture Work Group
Director: Pallab Saha, The Open Group India
Chair: Dave Hornford, Conexiam

Commercial Aviation Work Group
Director: Daniel Hutley, The Open Group
Chair: Sebastian Kern, Capgemini