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Congratulations Gail, this is exciting news, welcome! And Don, we will miss you terribly, you have had an incredible impact on this industry in your tenure.</div>
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Also - many thanks to the hiring committee, it is a tough job but you have enabled a great outcome.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> board <openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net> on behalf of Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 28, 2021 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hodggail@yahoo.com <hodggail@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> board@openid.net <board@openid.net>; mike.leszcz@oidf.org <mike.leszcz@oidf.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [OpenID board] Welcoming Gail Hodges as Our New Executive Director</font>
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The post is now up at <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2F2021%2F04%2F28%2Fwelcoming-gail-hodges-as-our-new-executive-director%2F&data=04%7C01%7CPamela.Dingle%40microsoft.com%7C68f47c694617402e993108d90a89672d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637552408151684932%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0&sdata=PaibPShInzBB3TDr%2BKX8La43YeblLXoPFLaTqsmyGLM%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://openid.net/2021/04/28/welcoming-gail-hodges-as-our-new-executive-director/" shash="BU6464yHPNP446OYsMi2CgNPYVNkwqznJFG79gll9XTRnrp0wFo1dfLdCyNYDAZWPLKOsxoUuj6FUBNvi8h7XluQKYHLxQaGnl9rays1+PeO8ELybgPHMh3GnjhtK42DqdGGlA6LUxtPfRE5Vc0KUN3s6oKflDVoQ3MJZgL77SI=">
https://openid.net/2021/04/28/welcoming-gail-hodges-as-our-new-executive-director/</a> and
<a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fopenid%2Fstatus%2F1387512356486352896&data=04%7C01%7CPamela.Dingle%40microsoft.com%7C68f47c694617402e993108d90a89672d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637552408151695340%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0&sdata=WPd4zI%2FUpNzO0ZBT2CeWHjqSK2LVt3p7wWiDFap%2FshY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://twitter.com/openid/status/1387512356486352896" shash="TMoWJnehxDkvzEf4//B8W+1Tlhbd7drKPnlpPoe2YVROQCQR2wuGjyvjL0gDwk1Z0SOeLIlWR/7uOaplV+yX8eb5p/NDZuc/kjpkJdeXtqEbLjEP0hYM9JIquuWXKWn4BmR+QcQaYWY1IUSRJRvas622vUkb7rs3lMh2/WUGoSk=">
https://twitter.com/openid/status/1387512356486352896</a>.</p>
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Welcome and congratulations, Gail!</p>
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-- Mike</p>
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