OWASP FOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Community & Operations Manager / Florida
The Community & Operations Manager proactively runs the Foundation's core business and chapter functions in a professional, consistent, efficient, and cost-effective manner. Generally these functions include opening and closing local chapters; proactively supporting chapter leaders; regularly ensuring the accuracy and integrity of chapter, member and other data; leadership and primary liaison for accounts payable; and semi-annually audit processes and signatory authorities ensuring issues are resolved. Additionally the Community & Operations Manager along with support from staff and partners will accurately document and implement the policies of the Foundation.
The Director of Events is responsible for the success of the Company's event programming including global events and other initiatives. Additionally the Events Director will collaborate with leaders, members, and partners to grow and evolve our regional and local events.
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- Member of the OWASP Belfast Board
- Member at Large
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- Director of Technology & Projects / Texas
The Director of Technology & Projects nurtures, manages, facilitates, and supports the volunteer open source programs of the Foundation. Additionally the Director of Technology & Projects will, with the support of staff and partners, champion, manage, and execute the technology roadmap of the Foundation.
Jimmy Mesta is CTO at Manicode Security. He is a DevSecOps, Mobile, and Kubernetes Secure Coding Instructor.
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- Director of Corporate Support
The Director of Corporate Support identifies, nurtures, develops, documents, solicits, and closes sponsorships and grants for the Foundation and its mission. Also the Director of Corporate Support will collaborate with staff, leaders, and members to improve our membership and events offerings for partners.
Lieven Desmet is a Senior Research Manager on Secure Software in the imec-DistriNet Research Group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), where he outlines and implements the research strategy, coaches junior researchers in web and infrastructure security, and participates in dissemination, valorisation and spin-off activities.
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- Sales & Marketing Operations Manager
The Sales & Marketing Operations Manager supports and coordinates core communication, promotional, member, and sales functions of the Foundation. Generally these functions include the development and execution of professional, regular, and impactful communications in both long and short form through email marketing and social media; proactively leading, managing, and facilitating co-marketing programs; regularly ensuring the accuracy and integrity of member data; supporting and assisting potential individual members; execution of and primary liaison for invoicing and accounts receivable; and ensure corporate member and sponsor benefits are delivered accurately and on schedule.
Martin Johns is a full professor at the TU Braunschweig.
The Chairman of the Board shall serve as the principal executive officer of the Foundation.
Fiduciary responsibilities: He/She shall, in general, supervise and control all of the business and affairs of the Foundation. He/She will monitor financial planning and financial reports He/She or he may sign, with the Secretary or any other proper officer of the Foundation thereunto authorized by the Board of Directors, any deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts, or other instruments which the Board of Directors has authorized to be executed, except in cases where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by these Bylaws to some other officer or agent of the Foundation or shall be required by law to be otherwise signed or executed;
Leadership and Direction: provides leadership to the Board of Directors with regards to policy setting and strategic planning. He/She helps guide and mediate board actions with respect to organizational priorities and governance concerns, and in general, shall perform all duties incident to the office of Chairman of the Board subject to the control of the Board of Directors.
Organizational Responsibilities: He/She plays a leading role in fundraising activities, formally evaluate the performance of the Foundation Director and informally evaluate the effectiveness of the board members. An annual, overall evaluation of the performance of the organization in achieving its mission will be accomplished. He or she shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors unless otherwise delegated, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time.
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- Member of the OWASP Belfast Board
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- Executive Director / Kansas
Maintains records of the board and ensures effective management of organization's records, manages minutes of board meetings, ensures minutes are distributed shortly after each meeting, is sufficiently familiar with legal documents (articles, by laws, IRS letters, etc.) to note applicability during meetings; is the custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the Foundation and see that the seal of the Foundation is affixed to all documents, the execution of which on behalf of the Foundation under its seal is duly authorized; keeps a register of the post office address of each Director which shall be furnished to the Secretary by such Director; and, in general perform all duties incident to the office of the Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chairman of the Board or by the Board.
Performs Chair responsibilities when the Chair cannot be available, works closely with Chair and other Board Members, participates closely with Chair to develop and implement officer transition plans, performs other responsibilities as assigned by the Board.
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- Member of the OWASP Belfast Board
Philippe De Ryck helps developers protect companies through better web security. As the founder of Pragmatic Web Security, he travels the world to train developers on web security and security engineering. His Ph.D. in web security from KU Leuven lies at the basis of his exceptional knowledge of the security landscape. Google recognizes Philippe as a Google Developer Expert for his work on security in Angular applications.
Treasurer manages finances of the organization, administers fiscal matters of the organization, provides annual budget to the board for member's approval, ensures development and board review of financial policies and procedures.
Job Titles:
- Member of the OWASP Belfast Board