💼 Business Advisory Committee — Academics Seat Election
Election Committee Mon 2 Feb 2026 11:11AMPublicSeen by 23The election for the Academics seat on the OpenSSL Corporation Business Advisory Committee (BAC) is now open.
The BAC provides business-focused input to the OpenSSL Project by ensuring that commercial, sustainability, and ecosystem considerations reflect the perspectives of the communities the Project serves, in alignment with the OpenSSL Mission.
Election period: February 2–20, 2026 (UTC)
Result announced: February 23, 2026 (UTC)
Voting model
This is an open election: votes are visible to participants.
Votes may be changed at any time until the close of voting.
Quorum requirement: participation of at least 15% of eligible delegates is required for the election to be valid.
Voting eligibility: one vote per institution.
Each institution is represented by a single designated delegate.
To change a designated delegate, please contact the Election Committee.
Term
Commences: March 1, 2026 (UTC)
Duration: 2 years
This thread is used for the election and any related procedural questions.
💼 Business Advisory Committee — Academics Seat Election
poll by Election Committee Closing Sat 21 Feb 2026 12:00AM
Current results
| Current results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Brumley, Rochester Institute of Technology | 100 | 5 |     | |||
| None of the above | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Undecided | 14 |            |
5 of 19 votes cast (26% participation)
Election Committee ·Mon 2 Feb 2026 11:13AM
Nominee: Billy Brumley, Rochester Institute of Technology
Statement
A native Texan, Bill Brumley received his doctorate from Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) in 2012. He is a former Staff Engineer for Qualcomm's Product Security Initiative (QPSI) in San Diego, California. He is a 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Laureate. Before joining RIT, he spent a decade as a Professor at Tampere University (Finland). He is currently an Endowed Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Cybersecurity in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, part of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He specializes in system security, cryptography engineering, and side-channel analysis. His first code contribution to OpenSSL Library was merged to the codebase in 2011.
As the incumbent, I plan to continue serving the OpenSSL Corporation BAC as the Academic representative. I feel like my biggest success in my current term was successfully submitting a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with two other (non-RIT) academics and the OpenSSL Corporation as partners. I want to continue to engage academic faculty through grant writing, and engage students by supporting their contributions to the OpenSSL library, including supervising capstones and theses related to OpenSSL and through my Open Source Software Security course at RIT (CSEC.635).