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+# Roles and Responsibilities
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+## Chairperson
+
+The FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council chairperson responsibilities include:
+
+  * Helping build a technical vision for the Foundation updated quarterly on a 12 month rolling basis
+  * Being the member voice leading and setting the goals of the TAC
+  * Collaborating with the Governing Board for funding initiatives that require funding
+  * Helping to determine what new programs to launch
+  * Working alongside the FinOps Foundation Staff to:
+      * Review the TAC meeting slides, as well as contributing content and agenda items
+      * Moderate discussion sessions during the TAC meetings
+      * Extend discussion via asynchronous communication to be inclusive of members who cannot attend a specific meeting time.
+      * Schedule discussion of proposals that have been submitted
+      * Ask for new proposals to be made to address an identified need