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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
Co-Director: Daniel Hutley, The Open Group
Co-Director: Andrew Davies, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Peter Ridgway, Fujitsu
Co-Chair: Ken Street, Conexiam

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: <vacant>
Organizational Representative, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22: Nicholas Stoughton
Organizational Representative, The Open Group: Eric Blake
Technical Editor: Geoff Clare, The Open Group

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

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

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

FACE® Consortium
Director:  Alicia Taylor, The Open Group
Chair: Terance Carlson, US Army PEO Aviation
Vice-Chair: Kirk Avery, Lockheed Martin

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

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

Open Digital Transformation™  Forum
Director: Atik Shah, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Rashed Alyami - Aramco
Co-Chair: Dr. Darren Pulsipher - Intel

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

Open Process Automation™ Forum
Director: Aneil Ali, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Kelly Li, ExxonMobil
Co-Chair: Ravi Jagasia, R Stahl

Open Professions Work Group
Directors: Andras Szakal & Deborah Schoonover, The Open Group
Chair: Vicky Rose, Kyndryl
Vice-Chair: Milan Boros, IBM

OSDU® Forum
Director: Justin de Grande, The Open Group
Co-Director: Dennis Stevens, The Open Group
Co-Chair: Stef Jacobs, Shell
Vice-Chair: Jane McConnell, Spinning Yarns Limited

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

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

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>

SOSA® Consortium
Director: Nick Borton, The Open Group
Chair: Dr. Ilya Lipkin, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
Vice-Chair: Jonathan Cain, Raytheon