OASIS elects Klaus Kunz and Bruce Rich to board, re-elects Daniella Taveau

OASIS Open said members elected Klaus Kunz and Bruce Rich to its Board of Directors and re-elected Daniella Taveau for another term. The leadership changes come as the standards consortium continues expanding work on global open source and technical standards across AI, cybersecurity, identity and other sectors.

Why it matters: - OASIS Open helps shape open source and standards used in AI, cybersecurity, identity, cloud computing and other global technology areas. - Board leadership can influence how the consortium prioritizes international policy, sustainability and security standards work. - The election brings in experience that OASIS says supports its continued growth in global standards and open source work.

What happened: - OASIS Open announced the results of its 2026 Board of Directors election on Nov. 3, 2026. - Members elected Klaus Kunz and Bruce Rich to the Board. - Members re-elected Daniella Taveau to a new term. - Jen Walker, OASIS chief operating officer, said the new and returning directors bring global perspectives that will strengthen the group’s work. - Walker also thanked outgoing Board members Vasileios Mavroeidis and Daniel Rohrer for their service. - The continuing Board members are Pablo Breuer, Ph.D.; Jason Clinton of Anthropic; Charles Frick of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Sarah Liang of EY; and Jautau White, Ph.D., of Microsoft.

The details: - Klaus Kunz is founder and managing director of Ephrin GmbH. - Klaus Kunz advises companies, foundations and startups on strategy and sustainable transformation in highly regulated sectors. - Klaus Kunz also serves as head of regulatory development and government affairs at PI Industries Ltd. - At Bayer AG, Klaus Kunz spent 22 years in global leadership roles, including senior vice president and head of ESG. - Bayer Transparency Initiative, which Klaus Kunz created, gave public access to pesticide safety data. - Bruce Rich is a Cryptsoft Fellow and principal engineer at Cryptsoft Pty Ltd. - Bruce Rich has more than four decades of experience in software design and architecture, including 25 years focused on security. - Bruce Rich has been an OASIS technical contributor since 2004. - Bruce Rich has worked on the Key Management Interoperability Protocol and PKCS #11 Technical Committees since their founding. - Bruce Rich previously served on the OASIS Board. - During his time at IBM, Bruce Rich was named an IBM Master Inventor and contributed to more than 30 patents, most of them security-related. - Daniella Taveau served on the OASIS Board for the past two years, including the past year as chair. - Daniella Taveau is a regulatory and global trade strategist and founder of Bold Text Strategies. - Daniella Taveau advises multinational corporations across six continents. - Before founding Bold Text Strategies, Daniella Taveau served as an international trade negotiator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. - Daniella Taveau represented the United States at the WTO and in major free trade negotiations. - Daniella Taveau also worked as an international policy analyst with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. - OASIS said many of its standards go on to be ratified by de jure bodies and referenced in international policies and government procurement. - OASIS describes itself as a nonprofit open source and open standards body. - OASIS says its work covers AI, emergency management, identity, IoT, cybersecurity, blockchain, privacy, cryptography, cloud computing, urban mobility and other content technologies. - More information is available on the OASIS website.

Between the lines: - The board mix suggests OASIS is leaning on expertise that spans regulation, security engineering and sustainability as standards debates broaden beyond core technical issues. - Bruce Rich’s return and Daniella Taveau’s re-election indicate continuity for an organization that relies on both technical committee experience and policy fluency. - OASIS is emphasizing global and cross-sector credibility at a time when open standards are increasingly tied to market access, procurement and regulatory alignment.

What's next: - The new board members will join the governance work as OASIS continues its standards and open source programs. - OASIS will likely keep pushing technical collaboration in areas where governments, vendors and standards bodies overlap, especially AI and cybersecurity. - The organization will continue with its current Board members and committee-driven standards process over the coming term.

The bottom line: - OASIS is refreshing its board with leaders who bring international policy, security and sustainability experience to a standards body whose work increasingly shapes how global technology gets deployed.