Silona Bonewald - President

Silona Bonewald started her own company, ElecTech in 1993 that created specialized software for political campaigns, and ran a web consulting business from 1994- 1997 where she was one of the first people to create websites for hire, and to successfully optimize her clients’ websites for usability and top search engine ranking. She has also worked in the gaming industry, creating high visibility web presences, content management systems, and large database back-end integrations 1998 to present day for such clients as Siemans, Blue Byte and Ubisoft.

Silona volunteers for the ACLU and EFF on technology-based civil liberties issues, and has lobbied on various issues. The combination of her involvement in political activism, educational activism, psychometrics for gaming communities, lobbyist work, netizen activities and web design make her uniquely suited to envision the framework that will make the LoTV system all possible.

Bob Blakley - Vice President

Bob Blakley is Vice President and research director for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies. He covers identity, privacy, security, authentication, and risk management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Bob was former chief scientist for security and privacy at IBM and served on the National Academy of Science's study group on Authentication Technologies and Privacy Implications. Bob has served as general chair of the 2003 IEEE Security and Privacy Conference and as general chair of the New Security Paradigms Workshop. He is the former editor of the OMG CORBA security specification, and authored 'CORBA Security: An Introduction to Safe Computing with Objects,' published by Addison-Wesley. Bob is also editor of Open Group's Authorization API specification effect and currently holds more than 10 patents on security-related technologies.

Michelle DeFrance - Treasurer

Michelle DeFrance is an auditor for the state of Texas where she has conducted performance, financial and information system and security audits for clients such as the Texas Education Agency, the University of Houston, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Texas Department of Transportation and the Railroad Commission. Additionally, she has worked with several non-profit organizations performing process consulting, fund raising, project management and financial management.

Edwin Wise - Secretary

Edwin Wise is a software engineer with over 25 years of professional experience, which means he has seen microcomputers appear from the dust and then grow into the world-changing devices we  know and use today. He has done work in such varied places as in Manufacturing CAD/CAM, Games, and Embedded Firmware for data acquisition systems, and considers himself to be a rogue technologist with a penchant for complex system design.

Joshua Gay

Joshua is a programmer, activist, and community organizer. He is the technical content manager at CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization that is reducing the cost of textbook materials by creating an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook." He is a former campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation, where he managed campaigns that defend computer user freedom and promote free software, including DefectiveByDesign.org, Badvista.org, PlayOgg.org, and EndSoftPatents. He also is an active volunteer for One Laptop per Child and is administrator of Textbook Revolution. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is the editor of Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.