Governance & Leadership

The Green Software Foundation is an accredited nonprofit under the Joint Development Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation family. Our governance is transparent, member-driven, and consensus-based.

How we're structured

The Steering Committee provides strategic direction and fiduciary oversight, while our working groups and committees drive the standards and initiatives that move the industry towards a sustainable future.

Linux Foundation

Joint Development Foundation

Green Software Foundation

Steering Committee / Board

Working Groups

Software Standards WG

Hardware Standards WG

Policy WG

Committees

Green AI

Developer Relations

Staff

Day-to-day operations

Environment Variables Podcast

CXO Bytes Podcast

Movement Platform

Meetup

Champions Programme

Visit the Member Directory for a full list of projects, working groups, and committees.

Linux Foundation

Joint Development Foundation

Green Software Foundation

Steering Committee / Board

Working Groups

Software Standards WG Hardware Standards WG Policy WG

Committees

Green AI Developer Relations

Staff

Day-to-day operations

Environment Variables CXO Bytes Movement Platform Meetup Champions

Visit the Member Directory for a full list of projects, working groups, and committees.

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is the primary governing body of the Green Software Foundation. Members are selected by Steering Member organisations and are responsible for strategic direction, fiduciary oversight, budget approval, and ratification of working group deliverables.

Chair

Gadhu Sundaram

Vice President

NTT DATA

Vice-Chair

Jonathan Turnbull

Program Manager

Google

Ben Logan

Global Technology Lead

UBS

Carolin Rubner

Head of Research Group

Siemens

Navveen Balani

Managing Director and Chief Technologist- Technology Sustainability Innovation

Accenture

Sanjay Podder

Managing Director at Accenture

Accenture

Vinjosh Varghese

Data engineer

UBS

Yusuke Kobayashi

Senior Manager, R&D / Green Innovation

NTT DATA

Our Team

The foundation's staff run day-to-day operations and report to the Steering Committee.

Gosia Fricze

Communications Manager

Green Software Foundation

Jabari George

Hardware Standards Technical Editor

Green Software Foundation

Jamie Cowan

Head of Partnerships

Green Software Foundation

Jenya Saprykina

Brand Designer

Green Software Foundation

Joseph Cook

Head of Research

Green Software Foundation

Kirsty Bryant

Senior Project Manager

Green Software Foundation

Russ Trow

Operations Director

Green Software Foundation

Sean Mcilroy

Program Director

Green Software Foundation

Todd Moore

SVP Community Operations

Green Software Foundation

Chairs & Project Leads

These are the people driving the initiatives at the Green Software Foundation — chairing working groups, committees, and projects, and moving the industry forward towards a sustainable future.

Awesome Green Software (Lead)

Abid Ali

partnerships & fellowships

Digital Emissions

Real Time Energy and Carbon Standard for Cloud Providers (RTC) (Lead)

Adrian Cockcroft

Awesome Green Software (Lead)

Ahmad Antar

Executive Director

Digital Emissions

Software Carbon Intensity for Web (SCI for Web) (Lead) Policy Radar (Lead) Policy Working Group (Chair)

Chris Adams

Director

The Green Web Foundation

Carbon Measurement Engine (Carmen) (Lead)

Florent Morel

Head of Green Software Engineering

Amadeus

Green Software Patterns (Lead)

Franziska Warncke

Technical Consultant

NTT DATA

Steering Committee (Chair)

Gadhu Sundaram

Vice President

NTT DATA

Software Standards Working Group (Chair) Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) (Lead) Software Carbon Intensity for Artificial intelligence (SCI for AI) (Lead) Software Energy Efficiency (SEE) (Lead)

Henry Richardson

Senior Analyst

WattTime

Steering Committee (Vice-Chair)

Jonathan Turnbull

Program Manager

Google

Green Software Patterns (Lead)

Liya Mathew

Site Reliability Engineer

Goldman Sachs

Workload Dynamic Power and Cooling (WDPC) (Lead)

My Truong

CTO

ZutaCore

Software Carbon Intensity for Artificial intelligence (SCI for AI) (Lead) Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) (Lead) Software Carbon Intensity Guide (Lead) Software Standards Working Group (Chair) Software Energy Efficiency (SEE) (Lead) Impact Framework (Lead)

Navveen Balani

Managing Director and Chief Technologist- Technology Sustainability Innovation

Accenture

Real Time Energy and Carbon Standard for Cloud Providers (RTC) (Co-Lead) Sustainable Organisational Framework for Technology (SOFT) (Lead)

Pindy Bhullar

PhD Researcher / Sustainable IT Consultant

ClimateAction.tech

Carbon Measurement Engine (Carmen) (Lead)

Robin Castellon

Principal QA Engineer

Amadeus

Green Software Practitioner (Lead)

Sarah Hsu

Site Reliability Engineer

Goldman Sachs

Software Carbon Intensity Guide (Lead) Impact Framework (Lead)

Srinivasan Rakhunathan

Product Manager

Microsoft

Carbon Aware SDK (Lead)

Vaughan Knight

Principle Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Organisation Leads

Every member organisation has a primary Organisation Lead — the point of contact for people from that organisation who want to get involved with the foundation.

Organisation	Lead	Title
Accenture	Navveen Balani	Managing Director and Chief Technologist- Technology Sustainability Innovation
Accenture	Sanjay Podder	Managing Director at Accenture
ACIS	Jose Alejandro Sanchez	Chief Technology Innovation Officer
Almaviva	Vincenzo Capasso	Head of Alliance, Partnership & Execution Management
Amadeus	Virginie Corraze	Associate director, Engineering Quality & Sustainability
Aveva	Kavitha Bhat	R&D Director – Applications
Bloomberg	Alyssa Wright	Open Source Program Expert \| Designing Systems of Open Source Collaboration and Impact
Boavizta	Eric Fourboul
Chalmers University of Technology	Birgit Penzenstadler	Associate Professor
ClimateAction.tech	Melissa Hsiung	Director and Organizer
Cloud Sustainability Watch	Susannah Hill	Co Founder, Sustainable Computing Consultant
Code from Finland	Janne Kalliola	CTO
Concordia University	Shin Hwei Tan	Associate Professor
Digital Emissions	Ahmad Antar	Executive Director
DXC	Shelley Cotterill	Head of Social Value UKI
EDSP ECO	Jeroen Spaander	CTO
Electricity Maps	Ryan Sholin	Advocacy Lead
Energy Web	Daniyal Ajdadi	Director of Marketing and Communications
Envite	Konrad Pfeilsticker	Founder
German Informatics Society	Nikolas Becker	Head of Policy & Science
GitHub	Paull Young	Head of Sustainability
GitLab	Kim Buncle	Sr. Sustainability Manager
Goldman Sachs	Sarah Hsu	Site Reliability Engineer
Google	Jonathan Turnbull	Program Manager
GovTech Singapore	Hunter Nield	Distinguished Engineer
GrUSP	Francesco Fullone
HARC	Dr. Carlos Gamarra	Senior Research Scientist for Clean Energy Technology
IBM	Tamar Eilam	IBM Fellow, Chief Scientist Sustainable Computing
Indian Institute of Management Mumbai	Hema Date	Professor
Infocomm Media Development Authority	Charlene Wong	Assistant Director, BizTech Group
Interfima	Anastasios Avranas	Managing Partner
International Institute of Information Technology	Karthik Vaidhyanathan	Assistant Professor
Leaders for Climate Action	Timo Müller	Managing Director
Linnaeus University	Mauro Caporuscio	Professor of Computer Science
Manchester Metropolitan University	Michael Bane	Senior Fellow of the HEA, and a Lecturer in Computer Science
Metropolitan Police	Johnny Wolf
Microsoft	Patrick Chanezon	VP Developer Relations
mondragon.edu	Miren Illarramendi	Lecturer/Researcher
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd	Tsuyoshi Minam	Lead Researcher
NTT DATA	Gadhu Sundaram	Vice President
NTT DATA	Yusuke Kobayashi	Senior Manager, R&D / Green Innovation
OpenUK	Amanda Brock	CEO
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)	Jared Temanson	Sr. Project Leader
Responsible AI	Nicole McCaffrey	Head of Strategy & Marketing
Schneider Electric	Juan Ignacio Rubio	Green Digital Lead - Energy Management
Schneider Electric	Hervé Guirado	Tech Debt VP - Schneider Digital
Sentry	Bertrand Martin	CEO
Shell	Adam Jordan	Distinguished Engineer & Head of Secure, Sustainable Software
Siemens	Carolin Rubner	Head of Research Group
Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance	Inky Vos	Sustainability & Solution Manager
Texas State University	Ziliang Zong	Associate Professor
The Explorers	Olivier Chiabodo	CEO
The Green Web Foundation	Chris Adams	Director
Time for the Planet	Ivan Communod	Partner
UBS	Vinjosh Varghese	Data engineer
UBS	Ben Logan	Global Technology Lead
UCL	Ivana Drobnjak
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	Javier Soriano
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila	Henry Muccini
University of Bristol	Daniel Schien	Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
University of Edinburgh	Emma Horrell	User Experience Manager
University of Huddersfield	Richard Hill
University of Limerick	Colin Venters
University of Salento	Roberto Vergallo	eng
Virtasant	Dean Bosche	Head of Corporate Development
WattTime	Henry Richardson	Senior Analyst
ZutaCore	My Truong	CTO

Legal & Registration

The Green Software Foundation is a nonprofit registered under the Joint Development Foundation, with the Linux Foundation serving as fiscal sponsor. We are not a direct-service nonprofit.

EIN

47-1122212

Fiscal Sponsor

The Linux Foundation

548 Market St, PMB 57274, San Francisco, California

Registered Address

3500 South Dupont Highway, Suite AA101, Dover, DE 19901

Tax Filings

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