2012/2013 Board of Directors

The SNIA Board of Directors maintains the legal and fiduciary responsibility for the Association. It consists of 10 seats elected by the SNIA Members and 3 seats that may be appointed by the Board. The individuals you see listed below have agreed to give their time and talent to the SNIA for 1 or 2-year terms. The SNIA Board meets face to face at least 4 times per year, and addresses organizational issues such as strategic planning, membership development, marketing and public relations, technical output, operational planning, and more. The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the organization's vision and mission, and ensures that tangible value accrues to member companies.

	Wayne M. Adams, Chairman and Executive Committee Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO EMC Corporation Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO at EMC and is responsible for expanding and managing EMC technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. Wayne has proudly served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 including roles as Treasurer in addition to Chairman during these terms. He has served in a number of leadership roles for conferences, forums and initiatives, and strategic alliances. Wayne also is a Board Member for the DMTF technology association and serves as the Senior VP of the Board. Within EMC, previous managing positions include partner management and software product management, where responsibilities included API licensing and product lifecycle management for Storage Resource Management, SAN Management, and I/O pathing product lines. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development of various strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
	David Dale, Vice Chairman and Executive Committee Director Industry & Standards NetApp David Dale the Director of Industry & Standards at NetApp where he drives product marketing initiatives related to NetApp’s iSCSI SAN solutions. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he also participates in the industry as Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum, a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.
	Peter Manning, Secretary and Executive Committee Director Product Management HP Peter is Director of HP Storage Product Management. Leveraging over 25 years experience with marquee IT leaders in servers, storage and networking, he is responsible for product strategy and plans for HP’s converged storage, established platforms, management software and converged infrastructure systems. Prior to joining HP, Peter held leadership positions at EMC Corporation and charted the course for EMC’s success in storage software and solutions. A multi-cultural business leader with a record of establishing footholds in global markets, he also led the charge for international growth and investment and was responsible for market specific engineering R&D, solution and training center development, and partner business enablement. Peter started his IT career at IBM’s Large Systems server business unit. As a member of the Advanced Architecture and Systems team, he worked with Laboratory development and Yorktown Research on future storage hierarchies, coprocessors and IO technologies, and was recognized with IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement award. He later joined MCI after years of trusted customer advocacy. Peter holds a Master of Engineering in Systems, Computer and Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
	Allan Zmyslowski, Treasurer and Executive Committee Senior Vice President, Engineering Fujitsu America Allan's responsibilities include engineering support for enterprise servers, storage, mobile and BPM products sold by Fujitsu America. In addition, Allan directs engineering pre-sales support, conducts interoperability and performance testing, and manages proof of concept work at the Fujitsu North American TRIOLE Integration Center. Allan has 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career at Amdahl Corporation in 1979 where he worked on CPU design and development. Allan held various technical and management positions at Amdahl before being named Vice President of the Integration and Solution Center at Fujitsu Technology Solutions in 2000. With the merger of Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Fujitsu PC in 2004, he became SVP of Engineering of Fujitsu Computer Systems. Allan took on his present position in April 2009 when Fujitsu America was formed. Allan is the inventor of 12 U.S. patents. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Kettering University and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
	Leo Leger, Non-voting Officer and Executive Committee Executive Director Storage Networking Industry Association A career Information Technology professional, Leo Leger has served in virtually all capacities of sales, business development, marketing, customer service, and education, in technology-related positions. As Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, for Computerworld’s Strategic Programs and Events team, Leo drove sales and sponsorship programs for this key Computerworld line of business since 1999. He joined International Data Group (IDG) in 1996 and served as Vice President of Business Development for the successful launch of IDG’s Internet Commerce Expo (ICE) event business. He served on the Board of Directors of Storage Networking World (SNW) from 2001 until his SNIA appointment in 2007. Leo began his career as a technology and operations advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department on a foreign service assignment in Montreal, Canada from 1974 to 1977. He worked for Honeywell Information Systems, Canada (later Bull Worldwide Information Systems) from 1977 to 1992, in positions including Director of Marketing, Regional Director and other senior management assignments. Originally from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Leo returned to the Boston area in 1993 where he founded the Institute for Computer Studies in Burlington, and served as its President until 1995. During this time, he was also an Instructor in Northeastern University’s State-of-the-Art Program. Leo achieved a Diploma from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in 1971, received a BA with honors from Providence College in 1972 and earned an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in 1973. He has participated in executive development programs at Harvard, MIT, and INSEAD in Paris, France.
	Don Deel, Non-voting Officer, Chairman of the Technical Council Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO EMC Corporation Don has over 30 years of industry experience working with the storage, networking, server, and management technologies used in distributed computing environments. He has been active in storage-related standards development activities for many years and has pioneering experience with the HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and SMI-S standards. Within the SNIA, Don has been active in a number of different positions since the early days of the association, and has been recognized for his contributions several times. He is currently serving in multiple roles, including Technical Council member, Storage Management Initiative Governing Board Chair, and Storage Management Initiative Technical Development Committee Chair.
	Tony Di Cenzo, Member Director Standards and Architecture Oracle Tony Di Cenzo is Director of Management Standards and Architecture at Oracle where he serves as principal representative to the SNIA, DMTF, and other industry associations. Prior to joining Oracle, Tony was Director of Standards at Brocade. Prior to that Tony has held senior positions with Gadzoox Networks, SGI, Fujitsu/HAL, and Digital Equipment Corporation. This is Tony's third term on the SNIA Board, having previously served on the Board from 2002-2004. Tony's SNIA participation includes having been Chair of SNIA's Standards and Membership Committees. Tony is also presently on the DMTF Board of Directors and has also served on the INCITS Executive Board and the FCIA Board of Directors. Tony holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts.
	Glen Jaquette, Member Lead Architect, Data Protection & Retention, IBM Distinguished Engineer IBM Glen Jaquette is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Tucson site. He is also Lead Architect of the Data Protection & Retention group which includes Tape and Archive systems. Glen has a BSEE from U.C. Davis (1983). He has a MSEE from University of Arizona (1988), the major focus of which was communications systems, the minor focus was optics. He started working for IBM in San Jose in 1983 on disk storage systems. He transferred to Tucson in 1986 to work on optical disk technology. He began working in Tape Development in 1996. He has been a founding participant in several industry changing initiatives such as the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium, the IEEE P1619.1 Encryption standard, and the private consortium which contributed the specification that led to the OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) standard. He was the lead architect of the IBM tape encryption solution including oversight of the associated key manager which has become the IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager (TKLM). Glen has also led the Storage Security architecture team and been a contributing architect to various cross-storage security solutions. He is the Inventor of 104 issued U.S. patents (and a further 43 pending patent applications) assigned to IBM.
	Skip Jones, Member Corporate, Director of Technology and Planning QLogic As director of planning and technology for QLogic Corporation, Skip Jones has been active in the storage industry for more than 27 years, with extensive background leading industry associations at the board level. Skip has been currently serving on the board of directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association, represents SNIA on the 4-person SNW Governing Board, and is on the SNIA/FCIA FC-Alliance Working Group that he helped create. Skip is also Chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and Chairman of the FCIA Roadmap Committee which defines and drives the industry roadmap for Fibre Channel and FCoE technology. Skip has worked in the storage industry since 1980, where at Priam disk drives he helped launch the first SCSI disk drive. He later moved to Maxtor where as engineering manager his team released the first 'in-form factor' embedded 5.25” (as represented in the Smithsonian Institute) and 3.5” SCSI drives, became a prominent early evangelist and educator for SCSI technology and became district sales manager before joining QLogic as strategic sales manager, where he later moved into various strategic and product marketing roles before becoming a leading early worldwide evangelist and industry driver for Fibre Channel technologies and SAN topologies. Since joining QLogic in 1991, Skip has honed his broad technical-marketing-sales-corporate skill base as vice president of the SCSI Trade Association, served on be its board, the FCIA board, the SNIA board, the BladeS board, and other industry boards for a combined 25 years. Skip currently represents QLogic and association alliances in the SNIA, SNIA Green Storage Initiative, SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, InfiniBand Industry Association, FCIA, NCITS T11 and The Green Grid. Most recently Skip helped usher-in the FCoE debut and resolved its vendor-neutral industry association stewardship under a single industry association and initiated its FCoE committee. With Skip so deeply prominent throughout industry associations and activities, he is a primary liaison that cross-links industry corners; in the past year Skip was able to help drive and complete the first-ever IBTA roadmap whilst also driving early FCIA 16GFC industry MRD definition for the T11.2 standards development that began June 2008 as well as adopting FCoE into the FC roadmap, FCoE MRD market development, and FCoE Plugfest. Skip has also held leadership roles in the American National Standards Institute and NCITS T9, T10, T11, T13 committees, is named on two QLogic SCSI patents and has led numerous technical and marketing storage industry initiatives over the past two decades.
	Jim Pappas, Member Director of Technology Initiatives, Data Center Group Intel Corporation Jim Pappas is the Director of Technology Initiatives in Intel’s Data Center Group. In this role, Jim is responsible to establish broad industry ecosystems that comply with new technologies in the areas of Enterprise I/O, Energy Efficient Computing, and Solid State Storage. Jim has founded, or served on several organizations in these areas including: PCI Special Interest Group, InfiniBand Trade Association, Open Fabrics Alliance, The Green Grid, and several emerging initiatives in his newest focus area of Solid State Storage. Jim has previously been the Director of Technology Initiatives in Intel’s Desktop Products Group, and successfully led technologies such as AGP Graphics, DVD, IEEE 1394, Instantly Available PC, PCI, USB, and other advanced technologies for the Desktop PC. Jim has 30 years of experience in the computer industry. He has been granted eight U.S. patents in the areas of computer graphics and microprocessor technologies. He has spoken at major industry events including the Intel Developer’s Forum (IDF), WinHEC, Storage Networking World, PC Strategy, Microprocessor Forum, Consumer Electronics Show, Server I/O and the Applied Computing Conference. He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
	Molly Rector, Member Chief Marketing Officer Spectra Logic Corporation Molly Rector joined Spectra Logic in 2004 and serves as the EVP of Product Management and Worldwide Marketing. Molly leads a department of channel and market development, marketing communications, public relations and product management professionals. A key member of Spectra's executive leadership team since 2005, she helps define and execute the company's future product roadmap and overall corporate direction, and serves as its primary corporate spokesperson. In 2010, Molly's vision led to the formation of the Active Archive Alliance, a non-profit storage industry association, on which she represents one of nine vendor organizations and serves as the chairman of the board. Molly holds certifications as CommVault Certified System Administrator; Veritas Certified Data Protection Administrator; and Oracle Certified Enterprise DBA: Backup and Recovery. She earned a bachelor's of science degree in biology and chemistry.
Photo not available	SW Worth, Secretary and Executive Committee Senior Standards Program Manager Microsoft SW Worth is a Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.