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board-as-we-enter-2009/) and welcome Andrew!

Building on the momentum from last year, the OpenID Foundation is pleased t=
o announce the addition of PayPal as a sustaining corporate member of the B=
oard. PayPal selected Andrew Nash, Sr. Director of Information Risk Managem=
ent and a longstanding advocate for OpenID, as their representative and joi=
ns the current board of seven community elected board members and five sust=
aining corporate members: Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo!. Acco=
rding to Andrew, PayPal decided to become a sustaining member of the Founda=
tion for a few key reasons:

 - Open standards-based user-centric identity is clearly becoming an increa=
singly important part of the evolving web infrastructure
 - PayPal has significant experience and expertise with security, trust, re=
putation and retail transactions that can be directly relevant as OpenID ex=
pands into new market and application areas.

Executive committee announced

Following the community board member elections in December, the Board elect=
ed its Executive Committee (EC) at the first OpenID Foundation Board meetin=
g of 2009 (minutes). The EC which works with the executive director on day =
to day operations and governance of the Foundation.

The following members were selected to the EC for 2009:

Chair =E2=80=93 Brian Kissel (JanRain)
Vice-Chair =E2=80=93 Scott Kveton (Vidoop) who was previously Chair
Secretary =E2=80=93 Mike Jones (Microsoft)
Treasurer =E2=80=93 Raj Mata (Yahoo!)
Committee Liaison =E2=80=93 David Recordon (Six Apart) who was previously V=
ice-Chair

The election of the EC was by unanimous consent on a full slate of officers=
, as discussed and determined by all the board members. The full Board meet=
s every six weeks and the EC meets every two. In addition, in affirmation o=
f the global nature of OpenID, the Board recently voted to add an Internati=
onal Liaison to the EC and will select that member shortly.

Board members featured on ReadWriteTalk

Last week, four Board members joined Sean Ammirati and others from popular =
technology blog ReadWriteWeb for an hour long podcast about increasing over=
all OpenID adoption, future plans for the OpenID Foundation and our thought=
s on Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. The interview has been pub=
lished on ReadWriteTalk.

Once again, we look forward to continuing our progress in 2009 and continue=
 to welcome the input and contributions of the entire community.