Peter T. Brown

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Peter Brown
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Brown in 2010
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Peter Brown
Occupations
  • Activist
  • former executive director
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Peter T. Brown was the executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2005 until early 2011. Having come from a business management and finance background, [1] he began working for the organization in 2001 as a comptroller, and was promoted to executive director in 2005 after the departure of Bradley Kuhn. He was replaced by John Sullivan. [2] He has since joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a director and treasurer. [3] He is from Oxford, England.

Previously, Brown also held roles as the Financial Controller at FSF and manager of the GPL Compliance Lab. Additionally, he served as a director at New Internationalist and worked at BBC Radio in London. [3]

He became an American citizen in August 2017. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Peter T. Brown". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Matt Lee (17 March 2011). "FSF announces new executive director". FSF. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Peter Brown and Stormy Peters Appointed as Directors of Software Freedom Conservancy". Software Freedom Conservancy. 15 August 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "After 16 years living in Boston I am finally becoming an American citizen today at Faneuil Hall. Exciting!". Reddit. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.


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