Voting is now open for the COMMON 2025 Board of Directors election.
There are three open positions, and the Nominating Committee has put forward a Slate of three 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 April 21, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific time and will end on May 21, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific time. The new Board will be presented at the Meeting of the Members on Thursday, May 22nd at POWERUp 2025 at Disneyland, in Anaheim, California.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Manzoor Siddiqui at msiddiqui@common.org.
Puneet Kohli
Puneet Kohli servers as the President of the Application Modernization Business Unit at Rocket Software. Puneet’s mission is to enable seamless modernization across applications without disruption— enhancing agility and responsiveness. Puneet leads a talented team of over 500 professionals across Product Management, Customer Success, Quality, DevOps, and Product Engineering, all focused on driving business agility and delivering secure, scalable solutions. Since joining Rocket Software in 2018, Puneet has led notable projects including standardizing the DevOps toolchain and refining products like the Rocket® Modernization Suite for IBM I and launching Secure Host Access. Puneet holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University and have held leadership positions at Dell EMC, RSA, and CA Technologies.
Peg Tuttle
Peg Tuttle is an IBM Champion and the Strategic Account Executive at Lightedge (formerly Connectria), proudly representing the great state of Iowa. She currently serves as Treasurer on the COMMON Board of Directors. As a passionate advocate for the IBM i community, Peg hosts The Incredible i Show—now in its eighth season—as well as the podcast TechChannel’s PowerTalk with Peg Tuttle, where she highlights innovation, leadership, and technology trends within the ecosystem. With over 35 years of industry experience, Peg has deep expertise in hybrid cloud strategies, operations, security, disaster recovery, high availability, and change management, empowering clients to modernize with confidence.
Brian May
Brian May is the Global Customer Lifecycle Principal at Profound Logic Software. In his 24-year career, he has experience as a developer, project manager, solutions architect, and head of product management. Outside of his day job, Brian has a long history of contributing to COMMON and the IBM i community. At COMMON, he has served in various volunteer roles including COMMON Americas Advisory Council, Community and Networking Manager, Subject Matter Expert, Nominating Committee, and was one of the founders of the Young i Professionals (predecessor to N2i). Brian currently serves as President of the COMMON Education Foundation. Brian loves to share his knowledge of IBM i, software development, application modernization, open-source development, and professional development. He has authored numerous articles and an e-book, coauthored the IBM i modernization Redbook, is an award-winning speaker, and was honored as one of the first IBM champions for Power.
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