2021-2022 SNIA Board and Technical Council Election - Candidate Profiles and Ballot

Attention SNIA Voting Member Company Representatives -

Below, please find the candidate information and Ballot for the 2021-2022 SNIA Board of Directors and Technical Council (TC) Elections. It is important that we have your vote and endorsement of these Candidates as they will be playing a key role in the leadership of the storage industry and this organization.

The Board of Directors (Board) is the governing body of SNIA. It is composed of 10 Directors elected by the voting membership, and 3 Directors appointed by the Board. For the 2020-2021 Board, 5 Directors continue on the Board to serve their respective terms. Accordingly, 5 seats are open for election (for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 6 Candidates for these seats. 3 seats will be open for Director appointments by the Board (after elections).

The Technical Council (TC) is the body of technical experts that guides the technical direction of the SNIA. It is typically composed of 8 voting members elected by the voting membership and 3 voting members nominated by the Technical Council and appointed by the Board of Directors. For the 2020-2021 TC, 4 elected members continue on the Council to serve the second year of their terms. Accordingly, 4 seats are open for election (for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 7 Candidates for these seats. 3 seats will be open for appointment by the Board (after elections).

Please find and review information on each of the Board of Directors and Technical Council candidates below.

To vote (confidentially), complete and e-mail this - BALLOT and forward via e-mail to the Executive Director at executivedirector@snia.org

The deadline for submission of a ballot is midnight Pacific Time, September 30, 2021.

Thank You – your support for SNIA and the Storage Industry is appreciated.

Candidates for Board of Directors

Richelle Ahlvers

Voting Member Company: Intel Corp
Title: Storage Technology Enablement Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 1 year
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 27 years
Education: University of Kansas, Computer Engineering

Previous SNIA Service:

Richelle has been engaged with SNIA for many years. She has been on the SNIA Board of Directors for several years, where she serves as the SNIA Secretary as well as the Chair of the Strategy Committee. Richelle is actively engaged in multiple other SNIA committees, including the SNIA Lifecycle committee and the Strategic Alliances committee. She has led the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API from the groups inception and serves as the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) Chair. She was involved in an early working group in the ‘90s (the NWM-WG) that helped set the future direction for SMI-S, evaluating different potential technologies including WBEM-CIM. More recently, she served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair from ’09 – ‘11 and has been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage.

Employment History:

• Intel: 2020 - present
• Broadcom: 2015 – 2020
• Hewlett-Packard: 1994 - 2014

Industry Achievement Awards:

• SNIA Volunteer of the Year: 2019
• SNIA New Contributor of the Year Award: 2016
• DMTF Star Award – November 2016

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

As the storage industry continues its ongoing transformation, I would like a seat on the SNIA Board of Directors in order to help drive the SNIA organization forward. I eagerly look forward to the opportunity to contribute to the continued success of the organization, and work with the rest of the Board, Tech Council and other industry leaders.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• DMTF: Liaison to SNIA
• DMTF: Redfish Forum Member
• NVM Express: Technical Workgroup
• OFA: OpenFabric Management Framework Work Group
• OCP: Storage Member - Monitoring, working to build SNIA Swordfish liaison
• SWE: Pikes Peak Section web master
• IEEE, IEEE – Women in Engineering (WIE), IEEE – Computer Society
• United Way – Women’s United Board Member

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

With a diverse portfolio of products and technologies, Intel is engaged with a wide array of interests in existing SNIA technical work groups, initiatives and forums. Our engagement spans from driving connector standards in the SFF, to driving the development and implementation of a new storage management standard on behalf of both our own products, to leading standards and education for memory-based storage technologies. Intel is interested in developing technology and opportunities surrounding NVMe and supporting ecosystems applied to storage use cases, promoting standards for storage fabrics, and working with our partner companies to develop other future-looking opportunities in emerging storage technologies and markets.

Biography:

Richelle Ahlvers is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies.

Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, enabling new technology ecosystems, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array software, storage management software user experience projects including mobility, developing new storage industry categories including SAN management, storage grid and cloud, and storage technology portfolio solutions.
Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years. She serves on the SNIA Board of Directors, the Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, and has led the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API from the group’s inception; she is the alliance liaison between SNIA and DMTF, as well as the alliance liaison for OFA, OCP, and the SODA Foundation. She has also served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage.

Richelle has also initiated and led both site and corporate level women's diversity forums, and presents regularly at diversity conferences. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richelleahlvers/

PK Gupta

Voting Member Company: Dell
Title: Sr. Director
Length of Employment with Current Company: 24 years and 3 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 36 years
Education: B. Tech (Computer Science) & PGDM (IT)

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

Founded SNIA India in the end of 2003, grew membership to 100 companies in 18 months and was chairman till 2006. Moved to Singapore in July 2005 and joined SNIA South Asia in 2006 as vice chairman then became chairman multiple times till 2017 end before moving to Santa Clara in Oct 2017. Also started SNIA Malaysia. Promoted SNIA storage courses and general storage education across Asia in organizations and universities. Represented and spoke in 100+ events in last 15 years across Asia for SNIA and chaired sessions for SNIA. Organized Storage Networking World (SNW) in Singapore and India 4 times. I am also part of few universities international advisory board. For contribution to SNIA International, was awarded SNIA Industry Impact Award in 2012. Was first person in Asia to get this award. Attended SNIA Board calls most of the time by webex and couple of times in person in last 15 years. Participated in few Technical Councils also like ILM, Data Protection, 100 year archive etc. between 2004 to 2006.

Was nominated to Board in Oct 2018 for 1 year and again in Oct 2019 for 2 years to represent DellEMC. Have been actively attending meetings and contributing. Helped inn organizing board meeting in DellEMC office in April 2019. Join DPCO TC 2+ years back and contributing regularly as Co-Chair. Also contributed to education committee.

Employment History:

• DellEMC – May 1997 till now. Was leading team of 550 Data Protection Solutions pre-sales team globally till last year. Moved to Global Alliances as Global CTO and Global Architects Lead early last year.
• River Run Software Group – Feb 1990 to April 1997. Group manager
• Uptron – Aug 1985 to Jan 1990. Software Engineer

Industry Achievement Awards:

• AIMA Distinguished Engineer Award 2009
• SNIA Industry Impact Award 2012
• EMC APJ Leadership Award 2013
• EMC President Club Awards 11 out of 14 years since 2007
• EMC Hall of Fame in 2015
• DellEMC Golden Jacket Leadership Award in 2019
• Various other internal awards

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Education is my passion, have been visiting professor in few universities since 1996. I love networking people. Have been in storage and data protection area from last 24 years. Gone through software development, product management, product marketing and presales management.

I have been associated with SNIA since Nov 2003 when first storage event happened in Bangalore, India organized by Brenda and Kumar Mallavali, founder of Brocade. SNIA has been my second job while I was in Asia since then till Oct 2017 when I moved to US. Joined SNIA board in Oct 2018 and DPPC in 2019 I enjoy doing selfless service for promoting storage industry. Given the opportunity, I will be happy to contribute for SNIA in US like I served SNIA in ASIA for last 16 years or more as it is bigger platform and last three years in US.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

None. Just part of International Advisory boards for few Universities in South Asia.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

DPPC

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

I have talked to Bill Eliot who is Dell primary contact for SNIA and he is supportive of my application.

Biography:

Pushpendra Kumar “PK” Gupta leverages 36 years of IT management experience to drive global data protection and solution architecture. As Dell Technologies CTO and Global Architects Lead for Global Alliances, PK cultivates relationships with business executives across the world to deliver exceptional technical support according to business needs.

A globally recognized technology leader, PK has served on international advisory boards in India, Singapore, and Malaysia. Currently, he is proud to represent Dell Technologies on the Global Board of Directors and Data Protection & Privacy Committee for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Dedicated to global technology advancement, PK founded SNIA chapters in India and South Asia. He has also been invited by universities and industry organizations to present on data protection & privacy regulations, cybersecurity, storage management, big data, and disaster recovery. In recognition of his contributions to company success, PK was inducted into the Dell Technologies Data Protection Solutions Hall of Fame and awarded the Global Elite Leadership Golden Jacket.

Managing teams of up to 550 employees, PK strives to foster collaborative work cultures focused on attaining overall business objectives while remaining adaptable to rapidly changing market demands. Throughout his tenure with EMC/Dell, he has traveled to more than 60 countries and held various leadership roles, including Global Pre-sales Lead for Data Protection Solutions, Director of Engineering, Senior Director of Specialty Pre-sales, and Director of Product Marketing.

PK holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. He attributes his passion for computer science to watching the classic series, Star Trek, from which he was inspired to reach new heights and do the unthinkable. An avid reader, he is dedicated to learning and sharing knowledge with others. Whether traveling across the world for work or leisure, PK enjoys collecting coins and currency from each country he visits.

Roger G. Hathorn

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems Storage Architecture
Length of Employment with Current Company: 33 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 33 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW Madison

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

My previous association with SNIA is through participation in educational sessions provided by SNIA, use of SNIA architectures, and through the work of my IBM and industry peers that participate in SNIA activities.

I was appointed by the Board of Directors in July, 2021 to carry out the remaining term of Michelle Tidwell, Director, SNIA BoD.

Employment History:

• I have been employed by IBM my entire career, since 1988. My positions have included storage RAS engineering, embedded microcode development, development leadership and storage I/O architecture. In addition, I am a Master Inventor and chairman of our systems-storage Invention Development Team. In addition to my development and architecture positions, I have been representing IBM and contributing to INCITS T11 Fibre Channel standards for 15 years.

Industry Achievement Awards:

• Feb 2019 INCITS Team Award for development of the FC-NVMe standard
• Apr 2016 INCITS Technical Excellence Award for contributions to T11 standards
• Numerous IBM Corporate awards and Outstanding Technical Achievement awards for contributions to storage products and technology

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

My motivation for seeking this seat is to continue IBM’s contribution to SNIA as a leader in the storage industry, and to increase the breadth of my contributions to promoting industry standards. I look forward to continued interaction with the thought leaders of the storage industry and continued learning from the technical committees within the organization.

List Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• IBM Principal voting member at INCITS T11 Fibre Channel technical committee and subgroups T11.2 and T11.3, 2006 to present.
• INCITS T11.3 Fibre Channel Interconnection Schemes – Vice Chair
• T11 FC-SB-6 working group chair
• T11 FC-NVMe-2 Secretary
• T11 FC-PM Secretary

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• Contributions to associated forums and initiatives to promote SNIA's industry leadership and mission.
• Potential contributions to technical committees in the areas of storage management, security and cloud.
• Participation in educational sessions and the SDC.

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

I thank the members of the SNIA companies for your consideration and look forward to working with you to carry out the mission and direction of the SNIA.

Biography:

Roger Hathorn is an STSM and Master Inventor at IBM Corporation. With a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined IBM in 1988 and began his long career in IBM Systems Storage. He is an enterprise storage development leader with expertise in mainframe I/O protocol architecture (FICON) and other Fibre Channel standards.

Roger’s current roles at IBM include I/O architecture and development of host attachment interfaces for the DS8000 family of enterprise storage arrays. He chairs the systems-storage Invention Development Team, is an IBM Master Inventor, and has hundreds of patents deployed in IBM storage and server products.

Roger is the principal member for IBM at INCITS T11 Fibre Channel technical committees and has been contributing there since 2006 . He is the vice-chair of the T11.3 Fibre Channel Interconnection Schemes sub group, the standing chairman of the FC-SB-6 (FICON) working group and secretary of other working groups including FC-NVMe and FC-PM. Roger was awarded the INCTS Technical Excellence award in 2016 and the INCITS Team award in 2019.

Nidish Kamath

Voting Member Company: Kioxia
Title: Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 6 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: ~15 of relevance to storage / networking
Education: B.Tech (IIT-Bombay), M.S.E.E. (Univ of Minnesota) , M.B.A. (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

I am a member of the Computational Storage TWG. At Kioxia, I have been working on aligning internal organizational goals to the Computational Storage TWG vision, and to contribute to the TWG. Additionally, I have presented on BrightTalk webinars as part of the SNIA Marketing initiatives.
Also, I have been serving on the SNIA Board since July 2021.

Employment History:

• Toshiba Memory / KIOXIA : 2015 – present: Driving strategy / internal decision making regarding the following areas: Persistent memory, emerging interconnects (CXL, CCIX, GenZ), new storage paradigms such as NVMe-oF / Computational Storage
• Avalanche Technology: 2014 – 2015: Product definition / architecture for deduplication and erasure coding features in AFAs; Drove business development / market research around NVDIMM-P, embedded MRAM applications
• Brocade Systems: 2012 – 2014: Product management / architecture definition for datacenter switches (supporting FCoE, DCB and cloud networking technologies such as NVGRE/VXLAN)
• Qualcomm: 2003 – 2012: Product definition / architecture for mobile accelerators such as GPGPUs, always-on audio inference engines and display processors. Concept / product introduction for mesh networking-based emergency/SoS alert systems
• Lucent Technologies: 1999 – 2003: Product development and sales enablement for broadband networking equipment (satellite and copper-based such as DSL)
• Cray Research: 1998 – 1999: Processor development for Cray’s SV2 supercomputer

Industry Achievement Awards:

None

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

Cloud computing (for enterprise apps, HPC and web serving), AI/ML, enhanced data privacy regimes, and new storage media all present a unique set of problems to solve. As part of the SNIA BoD, I would love to bring my diverse technical and business background to bear on – in an advisory capacity - solving the next generation storage challenges associated with these paradigms. Additionally, I also look forward to serving this BoD role by forming bridges/liaisons between other like-minded organizations and SNIA to promote and advance SNIA’s charter.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

I am currently an advisor for the research activity on Computational Storage at the Center for Open Source Software (CROSS), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. I have been a contributing member at JEDEC in the Hybrid DIMM TG (45.6_2). Additionally, I hold observer/voting roles at the CXL, CCIX, NVMe and GenZ consortiums.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

In technologies, my main interests are persistent memory, computational storage, key-value/object stores, HPC and networked storage. From a functional role, I’d like to contribute in forming relations with the software / application developer community at large, where storage industry innovations can be used, and working to promote the SNIA charter at various industry forums.

Biography:

Nidish Kamath is a technical architect and strategic marketer at KIOXIA. He has previously worked in marketing, product management and engineering roles at Avalanche Technologies, Brocade Systems (now part of Broadcom), Qualcomm, Cray Research and Lucent Technologies. At KIOXIA, Nidish drives the product strategy for persistent memory, NVMe-oF SSDs, computational storage and Key-value storage. He serves on the industry advisory board at the Center for Open Source Software (CROSS), U.C. Santa Cruz. Nidish holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, an M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles.

Chris Lueth

Voting Member Company: NetApp
Title: Principal Technical Marketing Engineer (TME)
Length of Employment with Current Company: Over 18 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 30 years
Education: Computer Engineer BS degree, CSU Sacramento

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

I was elected to the SNIA Board in July 2020 as part of Dave Dale's planned retirement. Since Dave's original Board term expires this election cycle, I'm seeking another full term on the SNIA Board. Besides SNIA Board duties, I've also participated in CSC, GSI, Green Storage TWG, and to a lesser extent Lifecycle Committee due to conflicts with GSI / Green Storage TWG.

Employment History:

• Intel 1991-1993 – Interned for three years while finishing my degree, worked on a script-based database to trace signals across a chip before doing design work on the chipset for the first dual-socket Pentium motherboards.
• Bank of America 1994 – Contracted as UNIX System Administrator for in-branch UNIX servers
• Safeway 1995-2000 - Designed a UNIX system that eventually went into 2200 stores running various retail applications. Also trained staff on UNIX server support while continuing to add new applications as requested. We were able to administratively manage all systems with a team of three people including myself.
• Vialta 2000 – 2002 - Director of UNIX System Administration at a startup which was my first exposure to NetApp storage systems.
• NetApp 2003 – present – TME covering ONTAP hardware for All Flash FAS (AFF) and hybrid Fabric Attached Storage (FAS) storage systems. This includes controllers, shelves, drives, adapters, cables along with coverage of the various ONTAP RAID options. My role includes working on next generation hardware requirements, helping sales with technical questions on shipping hardware, and frequent customer and partner interactions so I can feed this information back into design planning.

Industry Achievement Awards:

I won numerous awards at Intel and NetApp for going above and beyond. At NetApp I have a patent pending on a simplified ONTAP setup experience and authored two perennial top ten papers on our external website for our RAID6 solution (RAID-DP) and a Storage Resiliency Guide.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

SNIA remains the heartbeat behind the open standards that benefit and help define our industry. Plus SNIA builds industry knowledge by providing technical training to understand emerging technologies and trends. Continuing my SNIA Board role allows me to be a part of SNIA's contributions to the storage industry.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

While not currently active, I am considering some of the environmentally friendly associations to build on my GSI passion.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• GSI / Green Storage TWG
• Board Committees as the need arises

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

My TME role involves supporting sales with technical answers and customer engagement. This provides me with a good understanding of how customers use our storage systems. I also do hardware roadmap sessions with our larger customers so we can discuss emerging technologies and help them plan how to incorporate them when available. I am noted as a FY21 top twenty customer and partner presenter based on frequency and survey ratings.

As part of supporting sales efforts, I have become the lead technical ONTAP hardware resource for some of our largest customers and partners. Given this relationship I often seek roadmap guidance as we start designs for next generation hardware so we produce storage systems that will meet customer requirements. I also work with several of our larger partners to make it easier to do business with NetApp.

Given my customer and partner exposure, I also help plan our next generation ONTAP hardware and work closely with our Engineering Architects on design concepts for products 2-5 years out. This also includes participation on various core teams for new hardware.

Biography:

In 2003, Chris was so happy as a NetApp customer, he decided to join the company and is now a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) responsible for NetApp’s FAS platform, helping design and launch FAS platforms and later our All Flash FAS (AFF) platforms. Prior to his role as platform TME starting in 2005, Chris owned or contributed to areas of performance, data protection, storage resiliency, in addition to nearline storage solution, NearStore and compliance storage, SnapLock.

Chris has almost 30 years of industry experience and prior to NetApp held positions including motherboard chipset design, UNIX system admin work for various financial, high tech and retail companies, designing UNIX servers and underlying infrastructure deployed in ~2000 stores of a major supermarket chain, and a home entertainment start-up.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. He has authored two perennial top-ten NetApp Technical Reports TR-3298 - RAID-DP: NetApp Implementation of Double-Parity RAID for Data Protection and TR3437 - Storage Subsystem Resiliency Guide. Chris also has a patent pending for implementing a feature to setup and serve data in just 20 minutes on NetApp’s ONTAP Operating System.

Scott Shadley

Voting Member Company: NGD Systems, Inc.
Title: VP Marketing
Length of Employment with Current Company: 3.5 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 25 years - 17 @Micron, 4 @ STEC (now WDC), 3.5 @NGD Systems
Education: MBA - Marketing, BSEE - Electrical Engineering, Device Physics

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

• Currently serving out my 2 year appointed BoD Role, most recently as part of the Executive Committee (EC). Chair of the Communications Steering Committee (CSC). Participant in SDC planning/agenda, KPI & CSC Committees, CMSI, Security, SDXI and Blockchain TWGS.
• Previously I have served as a voting member for Micron, STEC and NGD.
• At Micron I was part of several twgs and initiatives over my tenure.
• I helped with the creation and now co-chair the Computational Storage TWG, of which I am still the Co-Chair.

Employment History:

• 25th year of Storage and Semiconductor related work. Micron for 2 separate employments, holding 20 different positions from Fab operator to Principle Technologist. 4 Years at STEC (Now WDC) as Director of Products and Strategy. 3.5 years as VP Marketing at NGD Systems where I have lead to the development and acceptance of 'Computational Storage' as a transformation technology and driven the company to record quarters.
• SNIA - 2 years (almost) of BoD experience. Participation on several committees and TWG.
• Presenter, Motivator, and Educator of Technology and the new solutions coming to the market as part of my career and personal interests.

Industry Achievement Awards:

• SNIA Exception Leadership Award (2019), Nominee for Volunteer of the Year (2020)
• Shark Tank Award winner for Marketing (2019)
• Multiple 'internal' awards at Micron - GM Award (2017), Employee of the Quarter (2016), Employee of the Year (2015)
• FMS Award winner (company) submission and support was mine (2018, 2019)
• Corporate awards that I supported include recognition from Gartner, IDC, 451Research, Gigaom, CRN, Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ), Octane Hight Tech Awards, Timmy Awards

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

This is to continue the work I started by being appointed two years ago. I look forward to continuing to drive the change, evolution, and growth of SNIA into this new market, and storage architectural change.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• NVM Express - Member
• OCP (Storage) - Member

Describe Your Potential Areas of Interest

• SDXI
• Security
• Leadership

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

Hoping to maintain my position and be elected this term.

Biography:

Scott Shadley is VP Marketing at NGD Systems where he leads marketing, product management, and product development for the company’s industry-leading computational storage. He has been a key figure in promoting computational storage, being co-chair of the SNIA Technical Working Group on the subject which he helped found, and speaking on the subject at Open Compute Summit, Flash Memory Summit, NVMe Developer Days, and many other events, press interviews, blogs, and webinars. Before joining NGD Systems, Scott managed the Product Marketing team at Micron, was the Business Line Manager for the SATA SSD portfolio, and was the Principal Technologist for the SSD and emerging memory portfolio. He launched four successful innovative SSDs for Micron and two for STEC, all of which were multimillion dollar sellers. Scott earned a BSEE in Device Physics from Boise State University and an MBA in marketing from University of Phoenix

Candidates for Technical Council

Luca Bert

Voting Member Company: Micron
Title: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, SSD Architecture
Length of Employment with Current Company: 3 yrs, 9 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 39 years
Education: BS/MS Solid State Physics

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

Companies I worked for (LSI, Avago, Seagate, Micron) have been SNIA members for most of the last 20 years or so and, in each one them, I have always been involved in managing technical content, features, proposals and, in some cases, architecture and development for related projects. I never had any formal position in SNIA though my work has always been related in making product work within SNIA guidance or, through company representative, influence SNIA WG directions.

Employment History:

Started working in early '80 in Europe, in a computer company named Olivetti that, at the time, was EU leader in Servers. Always worked on storage starting from ST506, ESDI and then SASI, SCSI with al its variants, SAS, NVMe. I also designed the first RAID controller in Olivetti (1990) and then, moving to USA, I was in the original development team of AMI (and then LSI) MegaRAID line of products. In 2013, in LSI, I joined the ASD division leading early solid state deployments (pre-NVMe, similar to FusionIO) where I led the Architecture team. After Avago acquisition in 2015, moved to Seagate, SSD team where I led Advanced Development and, in 2017, I moved to do the same with Micron. Currently in SSD architecture team with special focus toward innovative projects (like Computational Storage), new features (like ZNS), Open Source integration, etc.

Industry Achievement Awards:

• Speaker and panelist in several events, from Flash Memory Summit to Open Compute and many more, presented innovative projects we developed in house
• Participated in joint technology presentations (like IO Determinism with FB at FMS in 2016, NVMe Direct with Mellanox in 2017, ZNS at FMS 2020).
• Similar attendance at events in US and China.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

The user model for SSD is becoming more and more tied to how the SW stack is using it. This goes beyond simpler driver compatibility and few management API and will require libraries, services evolution, encompassing new usage models. Computational Storage is the most obvious though not only example of it. We need to get more involved upstream as there are NAND behaviors that need to be addressed top down or, conversely, system requirements that need to be designed in NAND bottom up. Industry has to be more vertically integrate in that and my (direct) experience in SSD and (for now indirect) work with SNIA provide me a unique opportunity to contribute in such effort.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

I lead the Industry Standards in Micron so I have direct, though not continuous, involvement with NVMe, PCIe, DMTF, TCG, etc. For each one there is/ are dedicated technical leads and I work with all of them. I also cover some of the work in the Open Source with specific interest in ZNS and related OS impacts

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

Storage stack and innovation are my areas of interest so longer term technologies, usage models and adjacent opportunities (new semantics like KVS or new access modes like ZNS/OC, or entire new class of usage like Computational Storage). Main are of focus is on SW side but we're also strongly involved in form factors.

Biography:

• Nov 2017 - Current: Micron - Non Volatile Engineering Group - DMTS, SSD Architecture. In charge of architecture and prototyping for innovative features. NAND features for Datacenters, data allocation, layout and management, SW stack integration, FTL and split FTL, CXL usage in storage, Computational Storage and similar technologies
• 2015 - 2017 - Seagate -Flash Products Group. Eng. Director, Solution Architecture and Advanced Development - In charge of Solution Architecture and prototyping. NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMe Direct, Storage features migration from SAS to NVMe, etc
• 2012 - 2015 - LSI Advanced Solutions Division. Sr Director, Solutions Architecture, Advanced Development and Pathfinding - Long term technology and prototyping on Flash, RAID, NVMe-oF, SW features and system integration, File System hinting, Compression and Deduplication, among others
• 2007 -2012 - LSI Engenio - Director of Architecture. Main focus on MegaRAID product line
• 2003 - 2007 - LSI RAID Storage Adapters. In charge of Product and Program Management, Performance and, for a period of time, Quality of MegaRAID product line
• 1997-2002 - AMI/LSI - Sr Mgr MegaRAID product line FW developments
• 1982-1997 - Olivetti, various position in Storage controller for Minicomputers/ Servers HW Development

Anthony Constantine

Voting Member Company: Intel
Title: Principal Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 21 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 21 years
Education: BS in Electrical Engineering

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

4 years of involvement in the SFF-TA within SNIA. Authored or co-authored 5 specifications and contributed to several more. Drove most of the technical discussion on the EDSFF family of specifications. Participated in a BoF talk at SDC 2020 and will be participating in both the BoF talk at SDC 2021 and plan to present on behalf of SNIA at OCP Global Summit.

Employment History:

For the past six years as a Memory/Storage Architect and Principal Engineer at Intel, I have focused on architecting or pushing new technologies into client and server platforms. In addition, I drive new storage specifications and changes to existing specifications across SNIA, PCI-SIG, ONFI, JEDEC, and OCP. I am the primary author on 3 specifications within SFF-TA (SNIA); SFF-TA-1006, SFF-TA-1007, and SFF-TA-1009. I also added or drove changes into several other specifications within SFF and have been an industry advocate at several conference including FMS and OCP. As technical workgroup lead for the Open NAND Flash Interface Group (ONFI), I drove and authored revisions 4.1 and 4.2. Within PCI-SIG, I authored 3 ECNs for M.2 which are incorporated into the M.2 Rev 4.0 specification. In my previous roles, I spent 8 years defining IO electricals, memory, and storage features for our smartphone processors and 6 years in electrical validation on desktop systems. Prior to working at Intel, I spent 2 years working in aerospace on rocket engine avionics.

Industry Achievement Awards:

None

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

The storage world has evolved very rapidly over the last few years and will continue to do so. I seek to be a part in defining this dynamic landscape, applying the observations and experience I’ve gained through my unique perspectives while fulfilling various roles surrounding this topic.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• PCI-SIG: Miniexpress and SFF contributor
• JEDEC: JC64 (embedded/SSD storage) and JC42.4 (NAND) workgroup representative for Intel
• ONFI: Workgroup member/contributor
• OCP Storage: Workgroup member

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

Physical System and device mechanicals (SFF), system and device power reduction (Green Storage).

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

I believe SNIA has a lot of opportunities to influence and grow the storage industry and I would like to help shape that.

Biography:

Anthony Constantine is a Principal Engineer at Intel, where he focuses primarily on driving innovation to memory and storage from mobile to datacenter. He is active in the standards area, contributing to SFF-TA (SNIA), Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI), PCI-SIG, and JEDEC. Anthony has over 21 years of experience in the technology industry with an expertise in memory, physical interfaces, low power technologies, and form factors. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis.

Shyam Iyer

Voting Member Company: Dell Technologies
Title: Distinguished Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 16 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 17 years
Education: Masters in Computing Engineering

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

• Chair of the SDXI working group

Employment History:

• 16 years with Dell
• 1 year with Multitech Systems

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 20 patents granted, 29 patents pending
• 12 talks at industry events including VMWorld and the Redhat Summit

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Increase participation to help grow SNIA contribution to the overall storage industry

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• Participant in CXL and Gen Z

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• Optimizing and standardizing HW/SW interfaces to help workload acceleration

Biography:

Shyam is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Office of CTO experienced at Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. With 40+ granted and several patent pending applications, Shyam has wide experience with Kernel, Device Drivers, Operating Systems, Virtualization, FPGA/Hardware device definitions, system architecture, performance tuning, Simulation, characterization, Storage Networking protocol stacks, OS/BIOS interfaces, Systems management, CPU micro-architecture, etc.

He regularly presents/reviews solutions internally and externally with C-level execs, customers, and developer-oriented audiences. Shyam writes code/reviews them for relief and enjoys a healthy smattering of technical and business-oriented discussions. Shyam is also the Chair for SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface), a SNIA TWG which aims to develop, extend, and drive an extensible, virtualizable, forward-compatible, memory to memory data movement and acceleration interface standard.

Glen Jaquette

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: IBM Storage CTO office, Security
Length of Employment with Current Company: 38 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 38 years
Education: MSEE (University of Arizona, 1988); BSEE (UC Davis, 1983)

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

I served 1.5 terms on the SNIA Board of Directors (2011 though 2013). I have also been a member of the Security TWG. More recently I was appointed a Technical Council Advisor, representing IBM, in April 2019.

Employment History:

I have worked for IBM since I graduated from UC Davis with my BSEE in 1983. I started at IBM San Jose working on IBM's 3380 disk storage systems. I transferred to IBM Tucson in 1986 to work in IBM Development on IBM's magneto-optical disk drives. In 1995 I transferred to IBM Tape storage systems rising through the ranks to become Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for all of IBM Tape. In 2013 I transferred to IBM FlashSystems in Houston where I was Security Architect for the FlashSystems branded products. In 2018 I transferred to the office of CTO for the IBM Storage brand, working as the lead engineer in security-related matters.

Industry Achievement Awards:

I was lead architect on the world’s first storage drive with native encryption capability, the IBM TS1120, which shipped in 2006. That first integration of encryption into storage drives started a trend which has become so prevalent it might be considered a de facto standard capability these days. I hold more than 160 patents related to storage-related technologies. I was involved from the very start in two storage-related standards that have changed the industry. The first being part of the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Consortium which created the interchangeable LTO standard which transformed the tape drive industry. The second being the creation of the specification within a private consortium which was later contributed to OASIS and standardized under the name Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). I was also been involved in the creation of standards at IEEE such as P1619 and P1619.1 which created IEEE standards for the two most prevalent encryption-modes in use today in storage systems implementing encryption of data at rest: the non-expanding XTS mode of AES used in most self-encrypting HDD and SSD drives, and the authenticated GCM mode of AES used in all encrypting tape drives still being shipped.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I would like to continue to represent IBM as a Voting Member of the TC.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

I am actively engaged and participating at IEEE as part of the SISWG TWG, and at TCG as part of the Storage TWG.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

I am interested in the TC's role in nurturing the standardization of new storage technologies generally. I have specific interest in security-related technologies and assuring that new storage technologies take security into account, as necessary.

Biography:

Glen Jaquette has been working at IBM on storage products since 1983. Since 1986 he has been in product development, eventually reaching the level of IBM Distinguished Engineer. In those years he has worked on a variety of different types of storage systems with different forms of non-volatile media: from IBM 3380’s large (14” diameter) disk spindles, to hard-disk drives, optical drives, tape drives, and most recently flash-memory-based systems. He was lead architect on the world’s first storage drive with native encryption capability, the IBM TS1120, which shipped in 2006. That first integration of encryption into storage drives started a trend which has become so prevalent it might be considered a de facto standard capability these days. He holds more than 160 patents on storage-related technologies used in IBM storage products. He was involved from the start in two storage-related standards that have changed the industry. The first being part of the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Consortium which created the interchangeable LTO standard which transformed the tape drive industry. The second being the creation of the specification within a private consortium which was later contributed to OASIS and standardized under the name Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). The KMIP standard allows compliant storage systems which require keys (e.g. to unlock encryption-capable ones) to interface with external key managers from other manufacturers. He has also been involved in the P1619 and P1619.1 technical working groups at IEEE which produced IEEE standards covering the XTS and GCM modes of encryption used in most encryption of data at rest implementations today. He has represented IBM at INSIC’s Tape group and contributed to INCITS T10 standards. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona. He now works in the office of CTO for IBM Storage.

Bill Martin

Voting Member Company: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Title: Principal Engineer, SSD IO Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 9 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 28 years
Education: BSEE/CS University of California Davis

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

• Chair/Co-Chair/Vice-Chair Technical Council, Co-Chair Object Drive TWG, Chair Recognition Program Committee, Chair Data Integrity TWG.
• Participant in:
  • Computational Storage (editor/User Space Library subgroup chair),
  • Communications Steering Committee,
  • Standards Committee,
  • SSSI,
  • NVMP TWG,
  • Solid State Storage TWG,
  • S4 TWG,
  • S3 TWG,
  • Cold Storage Tack Force,
  • Open Source Task Force,
  • Data Recovery and Erase SIG,
  • SDC Agenda Team,
  • PCIe SSD Committee, and
  • SSS Performance & Benchmarking subgroup

Employment History:

• 2013 – Present Samsung - SSD I/O standards
• 2004 – 2012: Emulex - Engineer Consultant Storage Industry Standards
• 2002 – 2004: Brocade – Sr. Principal Engineer Storage Industry Standards and Interoperability
• 1997 – 2002: Gadzoox – Sr. Principal Engineer Storage Industry Standards
• 1980 – 1997: HP – Member Technical Staff (Storage Industry Standards 1993 – 1997)

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 2021 - SNIA Volunteer of the Year
• 2016 - INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management
• 2013 - INCITS Merit Award
• InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) INCITS recognition for numerous contributions to the Fibre Channel standards community. As one of the principal architects of the Fibre Channel technology, you have held leadership, technical, and marketing roles that helped ensure the success of the Fibre Channel industry. Through your tireless contributions, the Fibre Channel technologies have become the cornerstone of the multi-billion dollar Storage Networking industry. In addition to the development of the technical and interoperability aspects of Fibre Channel, you have served in various officer capacities at the committee level, including INCITS/T11.3 Vice
• Chairman and INCITS/T11 Secretary.
• 2010 FCIA Achievement Award
• Fibre Channel Industry Association In recognition and appreciation for efforts in developing and advancing the technical standards and market adoption of Fibre Channel.
• 2007 - INCITS Outstanding Leadership Team Award
• InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Honorary award presented to a team of participants who have provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work. Outstanding teamwork in rapidly progressing the subgroup's national and international activities; demonstrated skill in developing technically sound standards.
• 2005 -INCITS Technical Excellence Award
• InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Honorary award presented to recognize technical contributions and dedication to the technical program of work. This award is presented with the concurrence of the TC officers for contributions to the work of the TC.
• 2005 - FCIA Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lifetime achievement for developing Fibre Channel standards and interoperability
• 2004 - Outstanding Theme Lead for the Interop Lab Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA award for outstanding Theme Lead for the Interop Lab at Storage Networking World Spring 2004

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I have been involved in leadership roles in the Storage Industry since 1993. Currently I am participating in a large number of SNIA TWGs, Committees, Task Forces, SIGs, and Initiatives where I hope to continue to lead SNIA as a leader in the storage industry. In my current role leading standards activities for Samsung Solid State Storage and Memory devices, I would like to continue to help direct the technical work of SNIA as the industry continues moving into the high performance area of solid state storage, including Computational Storage, Non-Volatile Memory and Object Drives, as they are used in cloud storage, and analytics and big data; and the impacts of storage security in these evolving technologies.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• INCITS T10 – Chair, editor of SBC-5; INCITS T13 – Secretary;
• NVMe – Board member and Contributing member;
• SATA-IO – Contributing member;
• SCSI Trade Association – participating member.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• Solid State Storage – ALL areas;
• Computational Storage
• Object Drive
• CSC
• CMSI
• GB member
• SSD SIG
• CS SIG
• Standards Committee;
• SDC Agenda Team;
• Storage Security;

Biography:

Bill has received numerous industry recognitions for his contributions to the storage industry over the past decades including: SNIA Volunteer of the Year award 2021, INCITS Gene Milligan award for effective committee management 2016, INCITS Merit award 2013, FCIA Achievement award 2010, INCITS Outstanding Leadership Team award 2007, INCITS Technical Excellence award 2005, FCIA Lifetime Achievement award 2005, and SNIA Outstanding Theme lead for the interop lab 2004.

Jason Molgaard

Voting Member Company: Arm
Title: Senior Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 3 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 22 years
Education: BS, MS Computer Engineering

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

• Computational Storage TWG co-chair May 2020 to present
• Computational Storage TWG participant December 2018 to present
• Computational Storage SIG participant 2020 to present

Employment History:

• 2018-present - Arm - Storage Architect (device focus)
• 2011-2018 - SanDisk/Western Digital - Architecture and RTL design of enterprise SSD storage controller ASICs
• 2005-2011 - Toshiba/Fujitsu - RTL and verification of enterprise HDD storage controller ASICs
• 1999-2005 - HP - Enterprise storage and server controller development

Industry Achievement Awards:

Exceptional Leadership - SNIA 2020

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I look forward to help drive change technically in storage devices and technologies as SNIA continues development and interaction with these new technologies.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• NVMExpress - member

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• Computational Storage, security, open to learning anything new

Biography:

Jason Molgaard is the Senior Principal Storage Solutions Architect at Arm, one of the world’s leading semiconductor technology companies that power the majority of the storage controllers worldwide. Jason works closely with the top storage suppliers globally to help define leading-edge processor subsystems and overall system storage controller architectures, with a focus on performance, cost, and area. Jason is also co-chair of the SNIA Computational Storage TWG and helps define the Computational Storage standard. Before joining Arm, Jason worked for various storage device companies architecting and designing HDD and SSD storage controllers. Jason holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

David Peterson

Voting Member Company: Broadcom
Title: Principal Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 14 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 38 years
Education: Electrical Engineering - Hennepin Technical College

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects):

• Technical Council Advisor

Employment History:

• Zetaco Inc., Network Systems, StorageTek, NuSpeed, Cisco Systems, SBS Technologies, Computer Network Technology (CNT), McData, Brocade, Broadcom

Industry Achievement Awards:

• INCITS Team Award - T11 Officers
• INCITS Service Award
• INCITS Technical Excellence Award
• INCITS Team Award - FC-NVMe

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Increase involvement and provide technical experience to promote the Storage Networking industry.
List Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity FCIA, NVM Express, IBTA - Broadcom representative

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

• FCIA, NVM Express, IBTA - Broadcom representative

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other):

• Persistent Memory, Fibre Channel, Storage Area Networking

Biography:

David Peterson is a Principal Engineer for Broadcom in the Brocade Storage Networking division. Dave is the technical editor for the FCP standards, the FC-NVMe standards, the FC-SW standards, and chair of the FC-FS and FC-GS work groups. Dave is also the INCITS T11 International Representative, the INCITS SC 25/WG 4 TAG Chair, and a Deputy Technical Advisor for the United States National Committee TAG to JTC 1/SC 25 in the international standards realm. Dave has been involved with networking and storage since 1983, and standards development since the mid-1990s.