Voting is now open for the COMMON 2026 Board of Directors election.
There are four open positions, and the Nominating Committee has put forward a Slate of four candidates for those open positions. Learn about each candidate below:
This year we are using an online election system to tabulate our votes. If you have an Active Membership, whether Individual or Corporate, then you are eligible to vote. You should have received an email with instructions and your unique link to cast your vote. If it’s a Corporate Membership, that email went to the person listed as the Main Contact of your membership.
Voting begins on March 30, 2026 at 5:00pm Central time and will end on April 29, 2026 at 5:00pm Central time.
The new Board will be presented at the Meeting of the Members on Thursday, April 30th at POWERUp 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Manzoor Siddiqui at msiddiqui@common.org.
Reggie Britt
Reggie Britt is a technology executive and IBM i practitioner who has worked on both sides of the fence — as a serial entrepreneur, IBM Business Partner, and IBM i
software developer since the platform’s inception, and for the last decade as a practitioner inside one of the nation’s largest organizations running it in production. He currently serves as CTO at American First Finance, a $1B lease-to-own subsidiary of First Cash ($7.5B), the leading pawn and fintech operator across the US, Latin America, and the UK. AFF is one of fewer than 80 companies worldwide that hold membership in the IBM i Large User Group (LUG) — an exclusive community of enterprises with the most significant investments in the platform.
That dual vantage point — builder and operator, vendor and customer — shapes how he thinks about AI adoption, organizational transformation, and what it actually takes to lead an IBM i organization through the human-to-agentic shift. He is the author of Signal4i.ai and a featured speaker at PowerUp 2026, where he will present on agentic AI and organizational readiness for the IBM i community.
He is based in Dallas, Texas.
Karl Haggart
Karl Haggart serves as a Distinguished Engineer at OneMain Financial, leading modernization efforts on financial service applications. He has spent his 30-year career in the midrange ecosystem and is an active participant in the IBM i community, starting with Partners In Development and on into COMMON. Karl has served in various volunteer roles over the years and is currently both a member of the COMMON Americas Advisory Council and a member of the Application Innovation work group at LUG.
Throughout his career, Karl has been a vocal proponent for the IBM i in multiple organizations, working predominantly in the application development space with both RPG and COBOL and a variety of Open-Source technologies.
Craig Skonieczny
Technologist, business leader and master gardener candidate. I believe innovation starts with insane curiosity, passion for lifelong learning, and relentless focus on what’s next. I am proud to lead several innovative companies in the IBM universe that have been changing the way the world works for our clients for nearly 50 years. I am excited to extend this passion to the COMMON community as we all seek to drive the future of digital transformation with advanced technology, industry expertise and trust.
Todd Stewart
Todd Stewart has worked in IBM midrange computing since 1989, developing applications from the System/34 to IBM i on Power. He has held roles including Developer, Analyst, Project Lead, Solutions Delivery Manager, and Application Development Director in the retail, bonding/insurance, and Agriculture industries. Currently, Todd serves as Application Architect for Heartland Cooperative, Iowa’s second largest agriculture co-op, and the 9th largest grain trading company in the US. He is a 2026 IBM Champion, a member of the COMMON Americas Advisory Council and holds a DevOps Foundation Certification from the DevOps Institute. He has contributed to the WatsonX Code Assistant/IBM Project Bob IDE and is a contributing author of the new IBM Redbook on application modernization. Outside work, Todd is a Chaplain for first responders and was previously a firefighter in Federal Way, WA.
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