The founding board

Three co-founders, and around a hundred years of collective experience between them.

The Board governs the Forum and carries its decisions. Its members bring backgrounds in data governance, open technologies, research, health management, IT development, policy and implementation.

Stuart Mackintosh

Co-Founder | Secretary

Business and technology executive, France

Thirty years building open source health infrastructure from the ground up. Has distributed European Commission resource to open source health organisations across Europe. DHCF was not born from a policy paper - it was born from direct experience of a system that failed the people it was meant to serve.

• Co-signatory: Defining the Open Digital Health Commons

Jaana Sinipuro

Co-Founder | Treasurer

Executive visionary in data-driven healthcare ecosystems, Finland

Brings the Nordic model of digital health sovereignty - where citizen data ownership is assumed, not aspirational - to DHCF's European architecture.

• Co-signatory: Defining the Open Digital Health Commons

Bert Verdonck

Co-Founder | President

Data governance leader, Luxembourg

Has spent a career designing the interoperability standards that allow health systems to speak across borders. The structural architecture of DHCF's governance framework is his.

• Co-signatory: Defining the Open Digital Health Commons

The Board convenes the Advisory Community, a standing circle of counsel that sits alongside it, and decides every invitation to it.