The Board of Directors' terms begin on 1 November. At-Large community board members are elected by the Drupal Association members.

Dries headshot Dries Buytaert, Founding Director
Founder
Belgium | Bio
Owen headshot

Owen Lansbury, Chair
Seat expires 2025
Australia | Bio

Tiffany Farriss headshot

Tiffany Farriss, Treasurer
Seat expires 2024
USA | Bio

Nikhil Deshpande headshot

Nikhil DeshpandeSecretary
Seat expires 2024
USA | Bio

Nick Veenhof headshot

Nick Veenhof
Seat expires 2024
Belgium | Bio

Nikki Flores headshot

Nikki Flores, At-Large
Seat expires 2024
USA | Bio

Rosa Ordinana headshot

Rosa Ordinana
Seat expires 2025
Belgium | Bio

Lynne Capozzi headshot

Lynne Capozzi
Seat expires 2025
USA | Bio

Fei Lauren headshot

Fei Lauren, At-Large
Seat expires 2024
Canada

Imre Gmelig Meijling headshot

Imre Gmelig Meijling
Seat expires 2025
Netherlands 

Lenny Moskalyk headshot

Lenny Moskalyk
Seat expires 2025
United Kingdom 

Piyush Poddar headshot

Piyush Poddar
Seat expires 2025
India 

Baddy headshot

Baddý Sonja Breidert
Advisory Role as Immediate Past Chair
Iceland 

Board Member Alumni

Drupal Association Board Alumni Drupal VZW Board/General Assembly Alumni

More information about the history of the Drupal VZW

At-Large Board Member History

The elected At-Large board members have been:

  • 2022: Pedro Cambra Fernandez (Spain), Imre Gmelig Meijling (Netherlands) (1.5 years, 6 months term respectively)
  • 2021: Mike Herchel (USA) (2 year term)
  • 2020: Pedro Cambra Fernandez (Spain) (2 year term)
  • 2019: Leslie Glynn (USA) (2 year term)
  • 2018: Suzanne Dergacheva (Canada) (2 year term)
  • 2017: Ryan Szrama (US) (2 year term)
  • 2016: Shyamala Rajaram (India) (2 year term)
  • 2015: Addison Berry (Denmark/USA) (2 year term)
  • 2014: Matthew Saunders* (USA/Canada), MortenDK (Denmark)   *Matthew’s term was converted to a two-year staggered term
  • 2013: Pedro Cambra (Spain), Morten DK (Denmark) (1 year term)
  • 2012: Steve Purkiss (UK) Donna Benjamin (Australia) (1 year term)

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Escalations

In rare cases, matters of significant importance to the Drupal project may be escalated to the full Drupal Association board. These escalations may include, but are not limited to:

  • Matters which may have a significant impact on the legal status of the Drupal Association or Drupal project.
  • Matters which may have a significant impact on the finances of the Drupal Association.
  • Matters which may have a significant impact on project leadership.

It is the Board of Directors itself which decides whether to take up an issue for escalation. Board-level escalations are NOT intended as an appeals process for other project decisions, such as the decisions of the Community Working Group(CWG), or other governance bodies.

Decisions escalated to the board at this level are generally final, and may not be revisited or appealed for at least one year from the time of the decision, unless otherwise specified when the decision is given. Any appeals must demonstrate a substantive change in the circumstances under which the decision was made, and must be communicated to the Secretary of the Board to be brought before the board for further deliberation.

Board Bios

Executive Board Members

Dries headshotDries Buytaert, Founding Director
Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing platform, used by 2% of the world's websites. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish.

Buytaert is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. In 2011, Forbes elected Acquia as one of the Top 100 Most Promising Companies. In 2012, Inc declared Acquia the fastest growing private software company in the United States.

A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MSc.) from the University of Antwerp. In 2008, Buytaert was elected Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek as well as MIT TR 35 Young Innovator. In 2012, Ernst & Young gave Buytaert the Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for New England. In 2013, Buytaert was elected a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum.

Owen headshotOwen Lansbury, Chair
Owen Lansbury is Co-founder of PreviousNext, an independent Australian digital design and development company that has been one of the world's most prolific code contributors to the Drupal project. With 25 years’ professional experience and a background in Fine Art, Digital Media and User Experience Design, Lansbury blends creative problem solving with the business skills required to sustain his own company and work successfully with complex customers. He is also an active leader within the Australian and New Zealand Drupal community, bringing DrupalCon to Sydney in 2013, acting as Track Chair at several regional events and chairing the DrupalSouth Steering Committee.

Tiffany Farriss headshotTiffany Farriss, Treasurer
Tiffany is the CEO and Owner of Palantir.net, a digital consultancy that solves complex problems with healthcare, higher ed, tech sector, and public sector clients using Drupal and other open source technologies. Her current focus is on creating sustainable agile environments that support high performing diverse teams. Returning to the Drupal Association Board after a two-year hiatus, Tiffany had previously served as a Director from 2009 - 2017.

As I return to the DA Board of Directors, I am looking forward to catching up on all the work that has been done over the last several years to further and diversify the DA as a global clearinghouse for resources of time, talent and treasure that support and sustain the Drupal project. It is essential that the backbone of the Drupal ecosystem those who are impactful contributors (both individual and organizational) to the Drupal project and the DA be sustainable and well-resourced. My efforts will focus on getting the Drupal economic incentives into alignment for long-term success.

Board Members

Nikhil Deshpande headshotNikhil J. Deshpande, Secretary
Nikhil J. Deshpande is Chief Digital Officer for the State of Georgia. He heads the Office of Digital Services (DSGa) under the Georgia Technology Authority. Nikhil envisioned and led Georgia’s user-centric digital transition to an enterprise open-source web publishing system, GovHub. Under his direction, Georgia became the first state in the United States to use enterprise Drupal and meet the special needs of constituents with a range of disabilities affecting vision, hearing, motion, and cognition, making GovHub Section 508 and WCAG compliant.
Nikhil strongly advocated and set the framework for the use of social media for Georgia, back when using social media for the government was not common. He established a presence for the state on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to quickly address constituents’ questions and concerns. Prior to his career in digital government, Nikhil worked in advertising and digital media.

As a Drupal Association board member, I hope to reach out to more state and local governments to educate about Drupal and its advantages. As a large organization partnering with Drupal agencies, I am excited to consult, assist, and help other organizations strategize from procurement to maintenance.

Nick Veenhof headshotNick Veenhof
Nick Veenhof is CTO at Dropsolid and is leading the Technical & Product Team. Nick has been involved in the Drupal community for almost 15 years now but has touched a lot more technologies. He's no stranger to cloud infrastructure and DevOps philosophies. Aside from technology, He tries to be a good coach & mentor by embracing change and to lead by example. He is also advocating Open Source and especially the Open Source project Drupal. Recently also Apache Unomi & Mautic became new Open Source pet peeves for him in order to create the most ambitious Open Digital Experience Platform that ever has existed.

After all those years trying to fill many roles in the Drupal Community, from contributor, to maintainer, from event organizer to speaking at those events and from being a small sponsor at DrupalCamps to Diamond sponsor at DrupalCon, I was offered this opportunity to give more meaning to my learnings so far. I always very strongly felt that the European Drupal community needed a more vocal voice and a strong need to get these companies united and to start talking to each other and learn from each other. I am hoping to make this a mission to make sure the European market & Drupal community feels connected to the Drupal Association. Openness here is key and that's basically what I've been passionate about ever since I know how much I loved computers & the web. Time will tell how this passion will translate in actionables in the board!

Nikki Flores headshotNikki Flores
Nikki is currently a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) and Technical Project Manager and Co-owner at Lullabot, a strategy, design, and development agency supporting redevelopment/new rollouts for Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, higher education, publishers, and enterprise technology companies.

She loves the web and learned to code in 1999. Since 2004, she has worked on 200+ websites implementing Drupal for clients and employers, most recently IBM, New Relic, Green America, the GIST Network for the U.S. Department of State, and Changemakers for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. She’s been using Drupal since 2008, working with agile methods since 2014, and received the CSM certification in 2020. She likes to think that we all, as makers and creators, are able to use technology to solve problems, connect communities, and build more effective change-making teams.

She is honored to be the recipient of the 2018 and 2019 NTENny Award and the 2021 Hack for Good award. She keynoted the first annual Drupal Diversity Camp and helped organize the 2022 Non-profit Industry Summit at DrupalCon. She is currently onboarding into the Drupal Community Working Group with a current effort of reviewing and making suggestions on an updated Drupal Code of Conduct. She also currently acts as a Pantheon Hero. She recently moved with her family, including three cats, to the Midwest.

Rosa Ordinana headshotRosa Ordinana
Rosa is working in the Informatics directorate of the European Commission in Brussels. Since 2009 she and her team have promoted the use of open source solutions and Drupal as CMS for public websites of the European Commission and other EU institutions. Today her multi-cultural team manages hundreds of Drupal sites and is one of the largest Drupal teams in Europe. She has a master’s degree in Computer Science.

Lynne Capozzi headshotLynne Capozzi
Lynne was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Acquia in Boston. Lynne was at Acquia for 8 years in this role. As Acquia’s CMO, Lynne Capozzi oversaw all global marketing functions including digital marketing, demand generation, operations, regional and field marketing, customer and partner marketing, events, vertical strategy, analyst relations, content and corporate communications. Lynne is one of Acquia’s boomerang stories, first serving as Acquia CMO in 2009. Lynne left Acquia in 2011 to pursue her nonprofit work full-time. She returned to Acquia in late 2016 to lead the marketing organization into its next stage of growth.

Prior to her experience at Acquia, Lynne has held various marketing leadership roles in the technology space. She served as CMO at JackBe, an enterprise mashup software company for real-time intelligence applications that was acquired by Software AG, before that Lynne was CMO at Systinet, which was acquired by Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, Lynne was a VP at Lotus Development, which was later acquired by IBM.

Outside of her work at Acquia, Lynne is on the board of directors at the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust and runs a nonprofit through the hospital. She is also on the Advisory Board of Family Services of Merrimack Valley and the Board chair of the West Parish Garden Cemetery and Chapel in Andover, Mass.

Imre headshotImre Gmelig Meijling
Imre Gmelig Meijling is CEO at React Online Digital Agency, based in The Netherlands. Imre has a digital background and he has worked for various agencies and organisations including United Nations World Food Programme, Disney and Port of Rotterdam. 

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association and an executive member of the DrupalCon Europe Advisory Committee. Imre is former Chair of the Dutch Drupal Association where he expanded marketing outreach significantly and helped set up a profitable Drupal Partner Program. He was involved in the inception of drupal.nl, the Dutch community website, used by several countries. Imre is also cocreator of the Splash Awards and former lead of Drupaljam, the Dutch Drupal event hosting almost 500 people. In 2023 Imre joined the Drupal Business Survey. 

Imre: “I have been working to create Drupal adoption and raising awareness for Drupal within regional and international brands from the day I got involved with Drupal. From the digital agencies in Europe I have been part of, I support the growth of Drupal from a business-perspective, but having a technical background, I know the strength  the Drupal community has and can be for brands. Having been in both worlds for a long time, I will help and make sure we bring them together. I am also looking forward on establishing and sustaining relationships between Europe and other regions with the Drupal Association and find ways to work even more closely together.“