Governance
The primary mission of the R Consortium is to develop and implement infrastructure projects to support the R community. As a Linux Foundation Project, the R Community embraces principles of openness and collaboration as defined in the Code of Conduct.
Board of Directors
The business of the foundation is managed by its Board of Directors, composed of appointed Platinum members of the R Consortium, annually elected Silver members of the R Consortium, and the ISC appointed director as defined in the ByLaws (PDF).
Mehar Singh
PROCOGIA (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE)(R CONSORTIUM CHAIR)
Mehar founded ProCogia a decade ago to offer more value and better service to clients than traditional consulting firms. Mehar has a background in Electrical Engineering and has worked primarily in consulting, technology and telecom sectors. He has held board positions at R Consortium, University of Washington, Society of Punjabi Engineers & Technologists to name a few. He is passionate about open-source technology, developing innovative products, skydiving and sea fishing.
David Smith
MICROSOFT (PLATINUM MEMBER)(R CONSORTIUM TREASURER)
David Smith is a developer advocate at Microsoft, with a focus on data science and the R community. With a background in Statistics, he writes regularly about applications of R at the Revolutions blog (blog.revolutionanalytics.com), and is a co-author of “Introduction to R”, the R manual. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid
Kieran Martin
Kieran works in the Data Sciences Department in Product Development at Roche. There he has been heavily involved in the creation of OCEAN, the new data science platform which is enabling the use of R in clinical reporting. He led R Enablement from 2020-2024, helping spearhead the transition to using R in this context. In 2024 he co-chaired the program committe for UseR!
ROCHE (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Michael Lawrence
R FOUNDATION (R FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE)
Michael is a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology department at Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), based in South San Francisco, CA. There he leads the development of tools, applications and environments for analyzing genomic data using R and Bioconductor. His research interests are in visualization, software interfacing, and genomic data manipulation. Michael is a member of the Bioconductor Technical Advisory Board, the R Core team, and the R Foundation Board.
Henrik Bengtsson
R FOUNDATION (R FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE) (ISC DIRECTOR)
Henrik Bengtsson is an Associated Professor at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the R Foundation, with a background in Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics. He has used R since 2000 for applied research in statistics and bioinformatics. He develops statistical methods, scientific computational software, and programming tools. His work includes R packages for science (e.g. matrixStats, and PSCBS, aroma.affymetrix) and software development (e.g. future, profmem, startup, and R.rsp).
Hadley Wickham
POSIT (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (the tidyverse: including ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr, and readr) and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website, http://hadley.nz.
Jared Lander
LANDER ANALYTICS (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE)
Jared P. Lander is Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York R Conference and R in Government Conference, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, and a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. He is the author of R for Everyone (now in its second edition), a book about R Programming geared toward Data Scientists and Non-Statisticians alike. Jared is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities and meetups around the world.
Benjamin Arancibia
GSK (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE)
Benjamin Arancibia, Director of Data Science, focuses on enabling the use of R in GSK Biostatistics. He builds tools to make data science fun, reproducible, and helps advocate for the use of R in the department. Ben is passionate about making sure that teams have the right support when using R in production analyses and helping teams learn while delivering. He is an advocate of R and open source technologies internally at GSK and externally speaking about lived experiences at various conferences.
Mike K Smith
PFIZER (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE)
Mike K Smith, Lead, R Centre of Excellence and Senior Director Statistics at Pfizer. Mike is a professional geek, helping colleagues from the business lines understand the power of reproducibility, automation and writing good code and helping the IT department understand the needs of the business lines. He is passionate about driving business outcomes through primary research, data and alternative data solutions as well as statistical analysis.
Uday Preetham Palukuru
MERCK (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE)
Uday Preetham Palukuru is a Standards lead at Merck &Co., providing leadership to develop and maintain global standards for ADaM implementation, R package development, Open Source package qualification, Computing Platform enhancements and compliance management tools. He has contributed to various internal and external R packages and is a member of the R Validation Hub Executive committee. He actively promotes the use of open source software in clinical trial data analysis via forums and paper publications. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from Temple University.
Infrastructure Steering Committee
An Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is responsible for the identification, selection, and oversight of infrastructure projects, as well as directing best practices and community leadership within the R community. Voting representatives are appointed by the Platinum and Silver members of the R Consortium, as well as an elected member from the Silver membership class and the project leads for all Top Level Projects as directed in the ISC Charter (PDF).
Henrik Bengtsson
R FOUNDATION (R FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE) (ISC DIRECTOR)
Henrik Bengtsson is an Associated Professor at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the R Foundation, with a background in Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics.
Mark Bynens
JOHNSON & JOHNSON (SILVER MEMBER)
Mark Bynens serves as the Director and Head of Scientific Computing Operations (SCO) within the Statistics & Decision Sciences (SDS) sector of Global Development at Johnson & Johnson R&D. With a distinguished career spanning over 19 years in the industry, Mark joined Johnson & Johnson as a full-time employee in 2016. In his pivotal role, he leads his team with dedication and expertise, holding responsibility and accountability for a broad range of critical operations. These include change management, project management, and the comprehensive management of software applications designed for statistical evaluation or business processes. Mark’s leadership extends to spearheading in-classroom and e-learning education initiatives, fostering knowledge sharing, overseeing software/application acquisition, and managing high-performance computing for in-depth data evaluation, simulations, and statistical research. His team is notably engaged in several R platforms, encompassing both non-HPC and HPC (high-performance computing) environments, where they deliver innovative solutions that significantly benefit the business. Previously, Mark was the business lead for the custom-built GxP SCE (statistical computing environment) for releases 1 and 2 at Johnson & Johnson. This project involved a custom-built R-ecosystem, containerized to include Shiny publishing capabilities. His contributions to the field are recognized through his role as one of the main authors of the SCE White Paper, underlining his commitment to advancing statistical computing within the pharmaceutical industry. Through his visionary leadership and technical expertise, Mark Bynens continues to drive significant advancements in scientific computing operations at Johnson & Johnson R&D.
Lisa Hendricks
NOVARTIS (SILVER MEMBER) (ISC CHAIR)
Lisa leads a pharmacometrics team that is a pioneer in opensource software with tools for graphical exploration, modeling diagnostics and nonlinear mixed effects modeling. Workshops on these tools at pharmacometrics conferences routinely sell out. She is also a sponsor for R/open source development and the statistical computing environment in Development at Novartis.
Michael Helbraun
MICROSOFT (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Michael Helbraun is a Principal Architect for Data & AI on Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Partnership team, where he works with strategic customers across Latin America. He holds a BS in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA focused on Economics and Operations from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Josiah Parry
ESRI (SILVER MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE) (ISC VICE CHAIR)
Josiah Parry is a Senior Product Engineer in Spatial Analysis and Data Science at Esri. He leads the R-ArcGIS Bridge project, bringing the ArcGIS system to the R community. A contributor to the extendr library, Josiah specializes in bridging R and Rust and is a package developer focused on building fast, scalable tools.
Eric Milliman
BIOGEN (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Eric is a data scientist in the Global Analytics and Data Sciences department at Biogen, based in Cambridge, MA.
Tobias Hofmann
ROCHE (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Tobias is a mathematician in the Biostatistics & Data Science Core Lab & Near Patient Care department of Roche Diagnostics Gmbh, based in Mannheim, Germany.
Jeroen Ooms
rOpenSci
Jeroen Ooms is the Lead Infrastructure Engineer at rOpenSci and creator of the R-universe platform. He is also a member of the Tidyverse team and maintains some of the most widely used R packages. Jeroen has PhD in statistics from UCLA and spent 10 years as a postdoc and research engineer at UC Berkeley.
Nan Xiao
MERCK (SILVER MEMBER)
Nan is a statistician from Merck & Co., Inc. working in the Methodology Research group in the Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences (BARDS) department.
Hannah Frick
POSIT (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Software engineer on the tidymodels team at Posit. Co-founder of R-Ladies Global and former co-organiser of the London chapter.
Kirill Müller
TOP-LEVEL PROJECT
Kirill runs the DBI project, a top-level project at the R Consortium, has previously been awarded five other projects, and is a core contributor to several tidyverse packages, including duckplyr, dplyr, and tibble. He is a founder and partner at cynkra, a data science consultancy based in Zurich.
Dave Hurst
ProCogia (SILVER MEMBER)
Dave Hurst is Director of Data Science Platforms at ProCogia, helping organizations implement open source data science solutions. He has extensive experience bridging analytics and business implementation in both large and small companies. An Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego, Dave is passionate about advancing analytic maturity for individuals and organizations through teaching, consulting, and community engagement.
Leadership
As a project operating within the Linux Foundation, the project staff from the Linux Foundation focuses on project growth and health, ensuring a vendor-neutral environment for collaboration.
Terry Christiani
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
30 years of building content strategies to help companies acquire and support customers. Successfully rebranded and created content programs to help build and sell 4 different companies. Built programs to identify and remedy content management issues affecting content performance. Managed outreach programs to open source communities through digital, hybrid, and IRL events.
