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The Strategic Leadership Board (SLB) conducts the business affairs of the Foundation, sets the overall strategic direction of the Foundation, and functions as the legal Board of Directors.
The Strategic Leadership Board consists of between 3 and 10 members, with members being elected to three-year terms from 1 January to 31 December (see the COIN-OR Foundation by-laws). The following are the current members as well as the year their current term ends:
- Oscar Dowson (elected board member in 2020 until 2023, and re-elected 2023 until 2026)
- Kevin Furman (elected as board member in 2022 until 2025, and appointed as Vice President on 14 July 2023 until 2024, and reappointed on 19 Jun 2024 until 2025)
- Matthew Galati (elected as board member in 2023 until 2026)
- Andrew Mason (elected board member in 2019 until 2022, & elected again in 2023 until 2025)
- Stefan Wild (elected in 2021 as board member until 2024)
- Ted Ralphs (ex-officio as chair of new technical committee approved in 2022 in perpetuity!)
- Matthew Saltzman (founding President on 10 March 2004, and re-elected repeatedly, most recently in 2022 until 2025, and appointed Chair of the Board most recently on 19 June 2024 to 2025)
- Kibaek Kim (elected 2023 to serve as a board member until 2026, and appointed on 14 July 2023 as Secretary until end 2023, and reappointed as Secretary on 19 June 2024 until 2025)
- Ti Zhang (Treasurer, appointed on 5 April 2021, and currently an officer until end 2023)
Note that officers are appointed for one year, while elected board members serve for a 3 year term.
Previous membership terms on the SLB include:
- Horand (Gus) Gassmann (2021), Treasurer
- Giacomo Nannicini (2021), Secretary
- Robert Fourer (2017, 2021)
- Kevin Furman (2018, 2021)
- Horand (Gus) Gassmann (2018), Treasurer
- Bill Hart (2018)
- Alan King (2016, 2020)
- Andrew Mason (2019)
- Giacomo Nannicini (2018), Secretary
- Ted Ralphs, TLC Representative until 2022 (when this role was disestablished)
- Matthew Saltzman (2019), President
- Laurent Perron (2023)
Several committees have, in the past, coordinated the work of the SLB:
- Finance
- Alan King (chair)
- Legal Affairs
- Ted Ralphs (chair), Lou Hafer, Matthew Saltzman
- Membership
- Lou Hafer (chair)
- Web
- Matthew Saltzman (chair), Lou Hafer, Andrew Mason, Ted Ralphs