SNIA Announces 2020-2021 Board of Directors and Technical Council Members
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 5, 2020 -- The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced its 2020-2021 Board of Directors and Technical Council (TC) members. As a globally recognized and trusted authority, SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information.
“2020 has been a year of change, renewed commitment and investment for the future by the industry” said Michael Oros, SNIA Executive Director. “Taking on the changing world, we have new representatives from several industry companies that have joined the SNIA Board from Cisco Systems, Kioxia, NetApp, and Pure Storage. In addition, Dell has also joined the Technical Council, and together we look forward to the new industry engagements and technical work that is already underway with SNIA’s 2,500 storage industry experts from around the world.”
SNIA has reaffirmed its key vision to be “All Things Storage,” with a focus on responsibility and accountability to its members, its alliance partners, and end users worldwide. “SNIA is taking the opportunity to strengthen its relationships, both inside and outside the organization,” said Dr. J Metz, Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors. “We understand the importance of leading by example - creating stronger bonds of communication and technical responsibility. SNIA has the advantage of representing a diverse ecosystem of storage technology, and we are taking steps to maintain its reputation of trust and reliability throughout the industry.”
The SNIA Board sees a need to synthesize several initiatives in 2021. In addition to its award-winning work in standards and specifications, SNIA will address broader themes in Management, Security, and Computational Storage. “The next few years will see a cross-pollination of these areas of technology,” Dr. Metz said, “and SNIA is uniquely positioned to take on the task of managing the inter-relationships of those technology trends.”
The 2020-2021 SNIA Board of Directors
Executive Committee:
Dr. J Michel Metz, Rockport Networks – Chair
Chris Lionetti, Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Vice Chair
Jim Pappas, Intel Corporation – Secretary
Sue Amarin – Treasurer, Advisor
Wayne Adams – Chair Emeritus, Advisor
Michael Oros – SNIA Executive Director
Board Members:
P.K. Gupta, Dell EMC
Cody Hosterman, Pure Storage
Chris Lueth, NetApp
Scott Shadley, NGD Systems
Shalom Shefa, Cisco Systems
Paul von Stamwitz, Fujitsu
Michelle Tidwell, IBM
Balaji Venkateshwaran, Kioxia Corporation
Board Advisors:
Richelle Ahlvers, Intel Corporation
Mark Carlson, Kioxia Corporation - Technical Council Co-Chair
Bill Martin, Samsung - Technical Council Co-Chair
SW Worth, Industry Consultant
The 2020-2021 SNIA Technical Council
SNIA’s Technical Council advances the technical agenda and standards work in the organization. The Technical Council members for the next two years are:
Mark Carlson, Kioxia Corporation - Co-Chair
Bill Martin, Samsung - Co-Chair
Curtis Ballard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Alan Bumgarner, Intel Corporation
Glen Jaquette, IBM
Fred Knight, NetApp
Bill Lynn, Dell
Leah Schoeb, AMD
Tom Talpey, Industry Consultant
Steve Wilson, Broadcom
Technical Council Advisors:
Craig Carlson, Marvell Technology Group
Arnold Jones, SNIA, Technical Council Managing Director
Dave Landsman, Western Digital
Alex McDonald, Industry Consultant (SNIA EMEA)
Peter Murray, Industry Consultant
Yukinori Sakashita, Yahoo Japan (SNIA Japan)
David Thiel, Industry Consultant
About SNIA
The Storage Networking Industry Association is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of member companies spanning the global storage market. SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market.
Source: SNIA
