The jQuery Foundation Board of Directors

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  Dave Methvin

  President

  Dave is a long-time contributor to jQuery, providing extensive help on the jQuery bug tracker and in the jQuery discussion forums. As the lead of the jQuery dev team he works to ensure high quality, timely, releases of the library, organizes the planning and development efforts of the team, and generally drives the direction of the library.

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  Kris Borchers

  Executive Director

  Kris works daily to help drive the jQuery Foundation toward its mission to make the open web accessible to everyone. Whether he is working with project developers, meeting with current and future supporting members or even occasionally writing a bit of code, he is always working to grow the foundation and help it bring the greatest positive impact to the open web as possible.

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  Anne-Gaelle Colom

  Secretary

  Anne-Gaelle Colom is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster in London, UK. She is passionate about the use of technology in Higher Education as well as the Web and Mobile world. Anne-Gaelle joined the jQuery Mobile team in October 2011 to become the documentation lead a few months later. Today, she is the Content Lead for the whole jQuery Foundation.

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  Mike Sherov

  At-large Director

  Mike is a Senior Software Engineer at Behance, from Plainview, New York. He is involved in development and testing efforts across multiple jQuery projects. Mike focuses his efforts around the CSS/JS interactions and works with the standards bodies and browser vendors to move the web forward.

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  Alex Sexton

  At-large Director

  Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) is a JavaScript Developer from Austin, TX and an Engineer at Stripe. He's a member of the Modernizr core team, former co-host of the yayQuery podcast and author of many open source JavaScript libraries including the Jed Toolkit, and yepnope.js. He focuses primarily on the challenges involved in creating large single-page applications, especially those that use jQuery.

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  Andy Smith

  Member Representative (IBM)

  Andy Smith is Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and based in Raleigh, NC.  He works in the Open Technologies and Cloud Performance team at IBM focusing on open source software and standards  for mobile related applications and services.

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  Gabriel Schulhof

  Project Representative

  Gabriel is a software engineer avidly in favour of an open, collaborative, and well-structured approach to any and all problem solving in the realm of software design and implementation. An application programmer from the very start, his path has taken him from working with native frameworks such as GTK+ and QT (at Nokia) onto the Web (at Intel) with jQuery Mobile.

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  Dylan Schiemann

  At-large Director

  As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard web development technologies. Dylan is also a committer to Intern. Dylan has delivered hundreds of presentations at conferences throughout the world, started the London Ajax User Group, co-founded Comet Daily, and authored a chapter in the book Even Faster Web Sites. Prior to JavaScript, Dylan earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.

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  Michael Peachey

  At-large Director

  Internet technologist, entrepreneur, user experience advocate, kitesurfer, photographer and father of four, Michael Peachey specializes in taking advantage of new technologies to solve long-standing business problems. In 2000, at a time when few believed the browser could support real interaction capabilities, Michael co-founded General Interface (GI) to enable developers to build web applications that behaved like desktop software. Michael sold General Interface to TIBCO Software in 2004 and then released the code in 2005 as a 100-point open source project at the Dojo Foundation. Currently, Michael is Vice President of User Experience for Sumologic in Redwood City, CA where he is working on the tools used by DevOps, ITOps and SecOps engineers to better manage all those cloud-based web applications.

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  John Resig

  Emeritus Member | Creator of the jQuery Library

  John is the original creator of the jQuery library. He works with the jQuery dev team and the jQuery board to help set the direction of the project.

The jQuery Foundation Board of Advisors

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  Matt Mullenweg

  Founding developer of WordPress | Founder of Automattic

  Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web, and Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment. He is the founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 22% of the web, including this site.

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  Karl Swedberg

  Content

  Karl Swedberg (@kswedberg) is a web developer and co-author of Learning jQuery and The jQuery Reference Guide books by Packt Publishing. The jQuery Reference Guide served as the foundation for api.jquery.com, which Karl continues to help maintain.

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  Brian Leroux

  SPACELORD!1!!

  Brian helped create, foster and lead the efforts now known as Apache Cordova and its popular downstream distribution Adobe PhoneGap. A huge advocate for the open web and making it a first class platform.

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  Chris Williams

  Maker of Improbable Things

  CTO @ Emerging Technology Advisors; VoodooSpark; node-serialport; nodebots, nodecopter; JSConf; RobotsConf; SaferAging; BeerJS; and more.

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  Boaz Sender

  Advisor

  Boaz is the CEO at Bocoup where he has spent the last six years helping customers adopt Open Technologies into the core of their businesses. Prior to Bocoup, he worked as a front-end developer for a dot-com where he built early client-side web applications.

The jQuery Team

The jQuery team is made up of subteams working on various areas of the project. For example there are subteams that work on Mobile, Core, UI, Events, etc. Without the contributions of the following people we could not exist:

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  Clark Allan

  Infrastructure

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  Julian Aubourg

  Core | Standards

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  Leo Balter

  QUnit Lead | Standards

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  Marius Stefan Bethge

  PEP

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  Jay Blanchard

  Developer Relations

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  Kevin Boudloche

  Developer Relations

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  Aurelio De Rosa

  Content

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  Isaac Durazo

  Outreach (Design)

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  Corey Frang

  Infrastructure

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  Sarah Frisk

  Chassis Lead | Mobile

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  Jasper de Groot

  Mobile

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  Cory Gackenheimer

  Mobile

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  Oleg Gaidarenko

  Core

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  Richard Gibson

  Sizzle Lead | Core | QUnit

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  Michał Gołębiowski

  Core

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  Scott González

  jQuery UI Lead | PEP Lead

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  James M. Greene

  QUnit

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  Dan Heberden

  Content

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  Andrew Lunny

  Globalize

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  Rohit Mulange

  Chassis

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  Felix Nagel

  UI

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  Ryan Neufeld

  Infrastructure

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  Addy Osmani

  Content

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  Kevin Partington

  ESLint | QUnit

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  Alex Schmitz

  Mobile Lead | UI | PEP | Chassis | Infrstructure | Standards

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  Amanpreet Singh

  Mobile

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  Adam Sontag

  Conduct | Events

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  Timo "Krinkle" Tijhof

  QUnit | Infrastructure

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  Adam Ulvi

  Infrastructure Lead

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  Arthur Verschaeve

  Content

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  Rick Waldron

  Core | Standards

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  Ralph Whitbeck

  Developer Relations Lead

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  Trent Willis

  QUnit

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  Timmy Willison

  Core Lead

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  Keith Wood

  Developer Relations

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  Rafael Xavier

  Globalize Lead

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  Kristy Yeaton

  Chassis

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  Jörn Zaefferer

  jQuery UI Dev Lead | QUnit | Globalize | Infrastructure

Past Team Members

These are the members of the jQuery team alumni. We recognize them for their contributions to the jQuery Project. They may not be as active in the project as they were before but they are still considered key contributors for the jQuery Project.

• Brandon Aaron

  Core

• Mike Alsup

  API, Forum, and Plugins

• Rey Bango

  Developer Relations

• Paul Bakaus

  jQuery UI Creator

• John Bender

  Mobile

• Tyler Benzinger

  Mobile

• Kin Blas

  Mobile

• Nate Cavanaugh

  Design and Web

• Darcy Clarke

  Design and Web

• Kim Cooperrider

  Events

• Chris Coyier

  Design

• Alex Dovenmuehle

  UI

• Nate Eagle

  Design

• Ariel Flesler

  Core

• Ryan Gibbons

  Infrastructure

• Skye Giordano

  Design

• Maurice Gottlieb

  Mobile

• Marc Grabanski

  UI

• Klaus Hartl

  UI

• Mike Hostetler

  Infrastructure and Operations

• Paul Irish

  Standards

• Scott Jehl

  Mobile

• Yehuda Katz

  Standards

• Sean Koole

  Content

• Chris Lea

  Infrastructure

• Jeff Lembeck

  Mobile

• Cody Lindley

  Developer Relations

• Mat Marquis

  Mobile

• Doug Neiner

  Design

• Todd Parker

  Mobile

• David Petersen

  UI

• Stefan Petre

  Creator of Interface Plugin

• Abby Phoenix

  Events

• Tane Piper

  Developer Relations

• Corey Quinn

  Web

• Philippe Rathé

  QUnit

• Jason Scott

  Mobile

• Ghislain Seguin

  Mobile

• Boaz Sender

  Content, Design, and Web

• David Serduke

  Core

• Bradley Sepos

  Design

• Craig Sharkie

  Events (Pacific-Asia)

• Jonathan Sharp

  Infrastructure

• Remy Sharp

  Developer Relations

• Leah Silber

  Events

• Nate Tassinari

  Events

• Patty Toland

  Mobile

• TJ VanToll

  UI

• Maggie Costello Wachs

  Mobile

• Wesley Walser

  QUnit

• Richard D. Worth

  Executive Director, UI