Announcing New Drupal Association Board Members

The Drupal Association is pleased to announce the addition of six new members to the Board of Directors: Adam Goodman, Baddy Sonja Breidert, Ingo Rübe, Michel van Velde, Audra Martin Merrick, and George Matthes. The Board of Directors provides leadership for carrying out the Association’s mission, which is to unite a global open source community to build and promote Drupal. Our six new members will add great value to our strategy discussions over the next three years, helping us advance our mission. We especially appreciate Adam Goodman for serving as Chair of the Board of Directors.

Adam Goodman, Chair

Adam Goodman is an award-winning educator, researcher, and trusted advisor to leaders of companies, non-profit groups and other organizations. He directs Northwestern University’s Center for Leadership, which offers academic and applied leadership development programs for undergraduate and Ph.D. students, faculty and high potential staff.

Baddy Sonja Breidert

Baddý Sonja Breidert (baddysonja) is the CEO and Co-Founder of 1xINTERNET, one of the largest Drupal web agencies in Germany. Baddý completed her M.Sc. in Engineering Management from the Technical University in Vienna, where she today teaches Agile Project management and IT. She is also a European champion in Robotic Soccer - where she competed with her University in 2008. Baddý is very active in the Drupal community and organizes Drupal conferences and events both in Iceland and Germany. .

Ingo Rübe

Ingo Rübe is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with experience in a wide variety of industries. He strongly believes in the power of open source. Ingo tries to improve the world with his work and firmly believes that open source is the best possible business model for achieving his mission. As the CTO of Burda Media, Ingo initiated the Drupal distribution called Thunder CMS, an industry driven Open Source project for the benefit of publishing industry. He continues to be the project lead and head of the Thunder Coalition, an organisation where publishers and industry work jointly on improving Thunder. Today, Ingo is the CEO of a blockchain technology company where he is focused on connecting Drupal and distributed ledger systems for future business cases.

Michel van Velde

Michel is the CEO and co-founder of One Shoe, an integrated advertising and digital agency based in the Netherlands and Germany. Additionally, Michel works hard to promote Drupal adoption in Europe, specifically in the Netherlands and Germany. He is also one of the founders of the Dutch Drupal Community and SDBN, Stichting Drupal Bedrijven Nederland (The Dutch Foundation of Drupal Companies). Michel organized DrupalJams, Drupal Splashawards, Drupal CXO events and is the founder / organizer of the Drupalcafe's. Recently Michel helped set up the German Drupal Business Foundation (Drupal Business Verein and Drupalagenturen.de) and co-organize the Drupal Splash Awards. Plus, Michel is a regular speaker at the DrupalCon Business Tracks and he co-organizes the Drupal CEO dinners at the European Drupalcons and the Drupal CEO survey.

Audra Martin Merrick

Audra Martin Merrick (audra) is a digital leader with extensive experience across marketing, digital advertising, customer success, and business transformation. She has spent her career helping media companies, including The Economist and the New York Times, manage the intersection of audience, editorial, and technology. As a consultant and speaker, she helps organizations identify opportunities to grow their audience, enhance their customer relationships, and align business processes to support their goals. She is passionate about agile, open source, and storytelling and loves to connect people for creative collaboration. After bouncing around Austin, New York and London, Audra is now based in Glasgow. (Twitter: @audrainscotland).

George Matthes

George is a Technology Manager at Johnson & Johnson that plays an instrumental role with their vast number of global consumer brands around how to best architect, build, utilize, and extend platforms developed for their digital marketing needs. As a long time Drupal community member and customer/adopter for many Drupal initiatives, he spearheaded J&Js corporate program for participating in and supporting Open Source projects. Prior to his career at J&J, he was the CEO and founder of a company focused on the development of Drupal projects for enterprise clients of all sizes. In addition, he has great experience in various roles including engineering, technology team management and full stack web development, for numerous design agencies and consulting firms. George holds a degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in IT Software Engineering, and resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Go here to learn more about the Drupal Association Board of Directors.