Ross Gardler is a committer and PMC member on a number of Apache projects, a champion and mentor on incubating projects and a PMC member of the Community Development project. 

Ross is a founder of OpenDirective a company specialising in making the connections between the academic research sector and the commercial product and service delivery sector. Until recently he was manager of OSS Watch, the open source advisory service to the UK higher and further education sector.

Ross is chair of the TransferSummit/UK conference, which seeks to link the academic research sector and the commercial sector.