Candidacies open for TOC Elections

[Eddie Knight]

Dear FINOS Community,

The FINOS Technical Oversight Committee is opening a new round of elections with two vacant seats! This is a fantastic opportunity to influence the direction of FINOS through your engagement.

Today we’re announcing the call for candidacies, starting on May 12th and closing on May 25th.

Per candidacy rules, if you’re either an active contributor of a FINOS project or an employee of a (FINOS) member organization, you can follow these simple steps to submit your candidacy:

1. Review TOC governance for responsibilities and ways of working. Feel free to contact t...@lists.finos.org if you have any questions.
2. Open a TOC GitHub issue with the following information:
1. Title: [TOC Candidacy]
2. Affiliation: <name of the company you work for - if not applicable, type “Independent”>
3. Qualifications for candidacy: <member OR active contributor of project x,y,z OR both>
4. Bio
5. What impact do you hope to have on the ecosystem during your tenure as a TOC member?

Here the full timeline of these elections:

• May 12th: Send notice to Governing Board, community, and maintainers
  
• May 26th: Open vote with the Governing Board
  
• June 9th: Open vote with the TOC
  
• June 13th: Elections are complete
  
• June 26th: Welcome new TOC members at OSFF London!

Cheers,

Eddie Knight
Chair, FINOS Technical Oversight Committee

[Gabriele Columbro]

Thanks Eddie and very excited to see this moving!

A call to action to all of our members and active contributors to FINOS projects: this is your opportunity to make an ever broader impact and take on more responsibility in shaping the direction of our community!

So make sure you review the candidacy rules and if you qualify and are motivated, please do put forward your candidacy here.

Thanks,

Gab

Gabriele Columbro | Executive Director | FINOS

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[Eddie Knight]

Apologies + Correction — the candidacy docs were moved in a recent PR:

https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/blob/main/operations/elections/elections.md

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[Eddie Knight]

And... That's a wrap!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the nominations, feedback, and election process — we're proud to announce that Maria McParland from JPMC and Ganesh Harke from Citi have joined as the newest members of the FINOS Technical Oversight Committee!

Please join me in sending a big congratulations to Maria & Ganesh!

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM Eddie Knight via lists.finos.org <eknight=sonaty...@lists.finos.org> wrote:

Apologies + Correction — the candidacy docs were moved in a recent PR:

https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/blob/main/operations/elections/elections.md

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM Gabriele Columbro via lists.finos.org <gabriele.columbro=fino...@lists.finos.org> wrote:

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