2024-2025 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 2024-2025 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 2024-2025 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 5 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 2024-2025 TC, 3 elected members continue on the Council to serve the second year of their terms. Accordingly, 4 seats are open for election (4 for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 5 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 membership@snia.org

The deadline for submission of a ballot is midnight Pacific Time, September 30, 2024.

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

Candidates for Board of Directors

John Geldman

Voting Member Company: KIOXIA
Title: Director, SSD Industry Standards, SSD BU
Length of Employment with Current Company: 7 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 30+ years
Education: MS CS (Santa Clara University), BSECE (Clarkson College of Technology)

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

• Member of SNIA BoD since 2022. Contributor to the TC as an advisor.
• Co-editor of Native NVMe-oF.
• Ongoing member/contributor for: SFF TA TWG, Object TWG, Security TWG. Green TWG
• Observing member of: Cloud TWG, Computational Storage, DPPC, S3 TWG, Zoned TWG
• (Also, I am the manager of additional SNIA contributors, co-chairs, TC members)

Employment History:

• 2017:Present Toshiba/KIOXIA, Director SSD Industry Standards
• 2005:2016 Lexar/Micron, Director Industry Standards
• 2015:2016 Secretary, INCITS T10
• 2011:2016 SD Association BoD
• 2008:2016 Secretary, IEEE 1667
• 2009:2011 CompactFlash BoD
• 1999:2004 (Communication market)
• 1985:1998 Cirrus Logic (Seven years in standards related Mass Storage controller development)
• 1984:1985 Xebec

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 2016: SDA Distinguished Service Award
• 2014: SDA Leadership Award
• 2011: INCITS Technical Excellence Award

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I am responsible for KIOXIA interests that include ecosystem strategic support of almost everything related to SSD devices, including Computational Storage and networked SSDs. Personally, my technical support is focused on form factor, protocol, and electrical (with a recent focus on improving sideband commonality in PCIe and PCIe shared form factors). From another point of view, at this point in my career, I do like to work on a strategic focus for standard setting organizations. I am enjoying the current refactoring of SNIA.

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

• NVM Express Member (Technical WG, Computational Storage TG, FMNDS TG, Boot TG, Marketing WG, ICC)
• Co-Chair: Management Interface TG
• JEDEC: Member (JC11, JC42, JC45, JC64, TG40_5, TG42_5) Liaison (INCITS T10, PCI-SIG)
• INCITS T10 (SCSI), INCITS T13 (ATA): Member
• SATA: Member
• IEEE SISWG: Member
• FMS: Content Advisory Board, Track organizer
• OCP: Storage attendee (Security monitor)

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

• In addition to the interests described above, I have
  • Significant experience in SSO level legal issues; an
  • Significant technical editing ‘habits’.
• My SNIA focus areas are Green, SFF, and Security. I had had experience in the client, enterprise, data center, automotive, and industrial sections.

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

• I have held corporate leadership responsibility for standards for multi-billion dollar storage vendors since 2011.
• I have been involved in storage standards since 1992, with an early introduction to standards including the transition from X3T9 to ATA & SCSI, as well as PCMCIA to CardBus.
• KIOXIA supports my service to the SNIA Board.
• I have presented and moderated for SNIA panels on various subjects, often EDSFF.
• I also like to make small pieces of wood out of bigger pieces of wood.

Biography:

John Geldman is a Director of SSD Industry Standards at KIOXIA. John is currently an active contributor to NVM Express, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, JEDEC, OCP, PCI-SIG, SNIA, and IEEE SISWG. John has had corporate leadership responsibility for standards for multi-billion dollar storage vendors since 2011. He has been involved in storage standards since 1992, with an early introduction to contributing to classic standards such as ATA 2 and SCSI 2, as well as working standards through multiple technology transitions. John has been an active FMS CAB member for at least 15 years.

Dave Landsman

Voting Member Company: Western Digital
Title: Distinguished Engineer / Director Industry Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 18 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 40 years
Education: Bachelor's Computer Science

Previous SNIA Service:

• Original editor the SSS PTS; published 1.0 of Enterprise and Client PTS
• Early and active in development of SSSI (achievement award for 2009 work)
• Some involvement in, NVM Programming, Computational Storage and Object TWGs
• Co-founded and initially co-chaired Zoned Storage TWG
• DNA Data Storage Track manager at SDC 2021, 2022
• TC Advisor since ~2020
• Brought DNA Data Storage Alliance into SNIA (2022), and now DNA TA Board Chair
• In publishing loop for DNA Data Stability Evaluation Method 1.0
• SNIA Board member since 2022

Employment History:

• Western Digital – 2016-present – Director of Industry Standards; Distinguished Engineer as of 2022
• SanDisk – 2006-2016 (WD acquired) – Standards
• msystems – 2004-2006 (SanDisk acquired) – Microsoft partner mgmt
• Consultant – 2001-2004 – Misc product management and mktg consulting
• Audio Track (startup in Seattle) – 2000-2001 – Director Product Management
• Intel – 1981-2000: Network SW Development, CAD engineering computing build-out, Processor Product Planning, Major Partner Management
• SofTech – 1980-1981: RTOS and Device driver development

Industry Achievement Awards:

• INCITS: ZAC/ZBC
• PCI-SIG: M.2 & Gen 4 Base Spec
• SNIA: SSSI 2009 (editor of Rev 1.0 of PTS specs (client/enterprise in 2008-2009)
• JEDEC: mSATA
• FMS: ZNS

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

SNIA has a long reach in the computing, networking and storage ecosystem. WD, as a major storage and memory vendor, is well positioned to contribute and advise on the direction of the industry. My interest centers around Computational Storage, Zoned Storage, Ethernet fabrics, DNA-based data storage, DDR and new low latency memory interfaces (i.e., CXL), and Storage/Platform Security. Increasingly, my focus is on the cool/cold/frigid storage tiers.

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

• WD’s board rep for: SNIA, NVMe, DNA Data Storage Alliance
• Chair of JC64.8 (SSD) Committee and NAND I/F TG, JEDEC
• WD rep on SRC Decadal Storage committee and MAPT (Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging)

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

• Computational Storage
• NVM Programming & Memory Fabrics
• Platform Security (Attestation, …)
• Archival Storage
• Storage protocols (Zoned Storage, etc.)

Biography:

Dave Landsman is Director of Industry Standards and Distinguished Engineer at Western Digital. Dave has been an active technical member in storage standards since 2008, representing SanDisk and, post-merger, Western Digital, making contributions to NVMe, PCI-SIG, JEDEC, SATA-IO, T10, T13, SNIA, TCG, SFF, and others. He is currently WD’s board representative for NVMe, SNIA, and the DNA Data Storage Alliance. Dave has over 40 years in the technology/semiconductor industry, having spent his “first career” at Intel (1981-2000), and “second career” in storage (2004-present), at msystems/SanDisk/WD, with brief hiatus at a startup in between. He earned a BA in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Chris Lionetti

Voting Member Company: HPE
Title:Reference Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 6 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 28 years
Education: Associate, attended 5 different colleges, kept changing before gettting BS

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

I have served as the Chair for Education, Chair for SMI, Currently on the SNIA Board representing HPE. I have also participated as a TWG member and individual contributor for a number of group as well as authored OpenSource Tools (posted on GitHub) for SNIA. I have also presented a number of sessions for SNIA at various SNIA events and obtained consistently high customer satisfaction scores. I have represented the interests and Participated in SNIA for the companies listed in my Company history section.

Employment History:

• 1994-1998 - Hewlett Packard - Netserver Division - Customer Engineering
• 1998-2003 - Dell Computer - Enterprise Storage Group - Development + Custom Engineering
• 2003-2009 - Microsoft - SAN Architect for Live Operations
• 2009-2016 - NetApp - Reference Architect
• 2016-2017 - Nimble Storage - Reference Architect - Company Purchased by HPE
• 2017-Present- HPE - Reference Architect

Industry Achievement Awards:

• MCSE,CCNA,A+/Server+/Storage+/Linux+/Project+/Network+,MCT,3COMWiz,HP-Star,DCSE,SNIA-101/201/301,HitachiPro,EMC-PP,BrocadePro,CIW
• 9 Various Patents related to Data Centers and Storage,
• 12+ Various White-Papers related to advanced Storage Topics

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

Ensuring that HPE stays involved with and advances the standards and goals of the SNIA community.

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

DMTF (Focus on Redfish), SNIA, CompTIA (Certification development)

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

Storage Management, Education, Long Term Archives, Security, Object Storage, Containers.

Biography:

Motivated, technical professional with a successful 20+ year track record of server and storage design and deployments. Talent for quickly mastering new technology, combined with excellent troubleshooting skills. demonstrated ability to find solutions to seemingly intractable business requirements.

David McIntyre

Voting Member Company: Samsung
Title: Director, Product Planning and Strategy
Length of Employment with Current Company: 3.75 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 25 years
Education: MSEE, BSEE, MBA

Previous SNIA Service

1. SNIA Board of Directors post (2022-2024)
2. Chairman, Computational Storage SIG
3. Co-chairman CMSI Marketing
4. Chairman, CMS Summit (est. 900 registrants in 2024)
5. Strategy committee participant
6. 2022 New Contributor of the Year

Employment History:

• Samsung, 2020-present, Director, Product Planning
• Xilinx/Intel, 2018-2020, Data Center Business Unit Leader
• DS McIntyre Consulting, 2016-2018, Semiconductor Insights for Tier One consulting companies
• Altera/AMD, 2003-2015, Senior Business Units Manager, Computer and Storage, Test and Measurement BUs

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 2022 New Contributor of the Year

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Focus on SNIA corporate organization development and optimization that aligns with market relevance and leadership opportunity(s).

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

OCP Future Technology Initiative

Potential Areas of Interest Market and corporate strategy- making SNIA relevant once again.

Anything Else the SNIA Should be Aware of?

Alignment with partner organizations as a central hub with technical relevance is part of the proposed strategy.

Biography:

David McIntyre drives new business planning at Samsung Semiconductor, delivering compute, memory and storage solutions into the AI and data analytics markets. He has held senior management positions with IBM, AMD and Intel along with numerous Silicon Valley startups. Prior to Samsung, he consulted for Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, UBS and Mckinsey. He is on the SNIA board of directors. David is a frequent presenter at technical conferences where he strives to bridge the gap between technical solutions, application developers and the end customer experience.

J Metz

Voting Member Company: AMD
Title: Technical Director
Length of Employment with Current Company: 3.5 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 25+ years
Education:BA, MA, Ph.D

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

Chair, Board of Directors, 2020-present. Member, BoD, 2014-present, SNIA Executive Committee 2020-present

Employment History:

• 2006-2008 Apple
• 2008-2009 QLogic
• 2010-2019 Cisco
• 2019-2021 Rockport Networks
• 2021-AMD

Industry Achievement Awards:

• Multiple speaking awards

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Continuation of work done on the board and officer positions

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

• NVM Express, Ultra Ethernet Consortium

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

• Being Chair of SNIA.
• Emerging Technologies
• AI
• Storage Architectures
• Data Transport

Anything Else the SNIA Should be Aware of?

Looking to continue expanding SNIA's influence in the industry and bolster member participation.

Biography:

J is the Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors and Technical Director for Systems Design for AMD where he works to coordinate and lead strategy on various industry initiatives related to systems architecture. Recognized as a leading storage networking expert, J is an evangelist for all storage-related technology and has a unique ability to dissect and explain complex concepts and strategies. He is passionate about the innerworkings and application of emerging technologies. J has previously held roles in both startup and Fortune 100 companies as a Field CTO, R&D Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Systems Engineer. He has been a leader in several key industry standards groups, sitting on the Board of Directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). A popular blogger and active on Twitter, his areas of expertise include NVMe, SANs, Fibre Channel, and computational storage. J is an entertaining presenter and prolific writer. He has won multiple awards as a speaker and author, writing over 300 articles and giving presentations and webinars attended by over 10,000 people. He earned his PhD from the University of Georgia.

Candidates for Technical Council

Curtis Ballard

Voting Member Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Title: Distinguished Technologist
Length of Employment with Current Company: 30 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 30 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bob Jones University 1992. Master of Science, Computer Communications, Clemson University 1994

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

SNIA Technical Council elected member October 2018 to present. SNIA TC advisory member May 2018 to Oct. 2018. Currently Co-Chair of TC AI Taskforce, active in SDXI TWG, and SDC Agenda Committee. Previously active in SMI Swordfish NVM Express special topic working group. I have extensive experience working in supporting roles for SNIA participants from my company and support of SNIA activities by other standards bodies.

Employment History:

• Hewlett Packard, 1994 – 2015 - HP Storage
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 2015 to Present - HPE Hybrid Cloud Storage

Industry Achievement Awards:

• INCITS Technical Excellence Award, 2011
• NVM Express 2.0 Specifications Significant Contributor Award, 2021
• NVM Express NVMe over Fabrics Boot Significant Contributor award, 2023

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I like working across multiple parts of a project and understanding how those parts work together to make a solution. Because of this interest, I have always worked on tasks outside of my core responsibility to gain a better understanding of the big picture. I got involved in industry standards in 2005 when I was asked to attend a few INCITS/T10 meetings to provide expertise in a specific technology. I found that standards meetings gave me the opportunity to learn about more of the storage industry including intent for how the standards pieces should work together as well as learning about different perspectives on design. Over time I was asked to pick up representation for all of Hewlett Packard Enterprise at INCITS/T10 and later became the lead for NVMe specification contributions. Participating in drafting SCSI and NVMe specifications has given me an opportunity to work on proposals across all aspects of storage interfaces while helping me build my expertise in storage. I have been able to serve development teams across my company by having connections into the specification development communities and the expertise in the storage interface standards to be able to contribute to internal designs.

My background includes a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a focus on microprocessors and a master’s degree in computer communications with a focus on high performance networking. Those two areas came together in the engineering work I have done at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise where I’ve participated in designs for both host and target storage products as well as storage networking designs for connecting them. By participating in storage industry activities in parallel to driving initiatives to support my company I’m able to contribute to the storage industry by bringing the expertise I’ve developed through many years of electrical and firmware development while also developing new expertise due to being a participant in the design of new capabilities. It is exciting to be able to contribute to the entire storage industry while also serving my company and growing personally.

Due to the long-term value that I have been able to provide Hewlett Packard Enterprise through my effective participation in T10, SNIA, and NVM Express my management supports my participating on the SNIA TC. In late 2019 my management supported my running for the NVM Express Board of Directors for 2020, a seat which I was elected to and have held from 2020 to present. The two leadership roles, an elected member of the TC and NVMe BoD roles are complimentary.

As part of the T10 and NVMe committees I have contributed designs to nearly every part of the leading storage interfaces. Features that I designed and drove standardization of have been included in flash storage devices, hybrid storage, tape drives, medium changers, and others. Many of those features have been broadly implemented across the industry. I have also served as the editor of draft standards and provided extensive review and comment to help refine work brought forward by other companies. In addition, I have proven effective at coordinating technical experts across multiple teams and different companies leading the combined experts to achieve a design that meets the needs of all. I have enjoyed using those same skills as part of the SNIA TC would like to continue in that role.

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

• INCITS T10 (SCSI)
  • HPE Principal member, Vice-Chair
  • Active participant in most T10 projects
• NVM Express
  • NVM Express Board of Directors, Treasurer
  • HPE Primary, HPE technical lead
  • Active participant in NVM Express Technical WG, and Fabrics and Multi-Domain Subsystems Technical WG
• INCITS T11 and INCITS T13
  • HPE Alternate

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

• Interfacing to storage, including byte, block, and object
• AI and data transfer, data acceleration, and data storage intersection
• Storage media technology
• Storage management

Biography:

Curtis Ballard is a Distinguished Technologist with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the HPE Storage organization where he works on storage architecture, intellectual property, and storage technology strategy with a focus on enabling new storage technologies.  Curtis has 30 years of experience in storage and storage interfaces technologies where he has worked in product design teams for storage arrays, storage enclosures, tape drives, tape libraries, and magneto optical drives.  He has developed hardware designs for storage interfaces and storage controllers as well as firmware for motion control, storage interfaces, user interface, and embedded operating systems. 
In addition to Storage Platform development for HPE, Curtis also represents HPE in several industry organizations.  Curtis is a treasurer for the NVM Express Board of Directors, is a member of the SNIA Technical Council, and is the vice-chair of the INCITS/SCSI (T10) Storage Interfaces Technical Committee where he has been the editor for several SCSI standards.  He is an inventor on over 40 US patents in the storage industry across electrical, software, and mechanical disciplines.

Shyam Iyer

Voting Member Company: Dell
Title: Distinguished Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 19 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 20+ years
Education: MS(CS), BS(EE)

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

I have been associated with SNIA as an end-user for 10+ years. My active association with SNIA as a contributor started with introducing SDXI concepts to the SNIA Technical Council. This resulted in the formation of an SNIA TWG in 2020 that standardizes memory to memory data movement and acceleration. This TWG has gained membership of 28+ companies and 80+ members within the short time of 2 years and I have had the pleasure of interacting with many SNIA member colleagues to shepherd SDXI TWG’s activities. I submitted my nomination to join the technical council for 2021/22 which resulted in an opportunity to serve the Technical Council. As an SNIA Technical Council member, I have had the opportunity to participate in various monthly meetings, provide opinions on various technical topics, vote on TC matters, participate in the SNIA dictionary efforts, and also represent SNIA at sponsored events like the In-memory Compute Summit 2020 and the DMTF APTS event as an SNIA keynote speaker. Recently, I have represented SNIA at MemCon and FMS to moderate panel, and serve as a panel member for SNIA focus areas. Additionally, I have taken the responsibility of co-chairing an SDXI + CS subgroup to align activities related to a CS architecture involving SDXI devices. I am also involved in dictionary activities, AI task force activities, SNIA tech marketing videos, and helping recruit new members at conferences.

Employment History:

• 19 years at Dell, and 20+ years of professional experience.
• Senior Technical Leader in Dell’s Chief Technology Office involved in future infrastructure storage, memory, network, compute architectures, and Security solutions.

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 57 Granted Patents, and several pending applications.
• 30+ Industry presentations, keynote talks, Open Source Contributions, and Publications
• A recognized technical leader, peer-reviewed as a Distinguished Engineer within Dell.
• SNIA Exceptional Leadership Award winner.
• Chair for SDXI TWG that won SNIA awards twice, FMS best of show award.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

The industry is at an important junction where well-defined system architectures are ripe for change. Storage itself is reinventing itself given new requirements driven by AI. In this rapidly changing landscape with heterogenous accelerators becoming a regular system feature, system architectures require new system, software, storage, networking solutions centered around data. In other words, SNIA needs to evolve. Given my background in introducing SDXI as a memory to memory data movement and acceleration specification, I would like to contribute by helping SNIA’s technical council in navigating this landscape. My involvement in chairing the SDXI TWG and SDXI+CS subgroup helps me represent SDXI and the SDXI+CS subgroup’s requirements more effectively in the Technical Council. As a Senior Technical Leader (Distinguished Engineer) in Dell’s Chief Technology, I perceive a Dell membership in the SNIA Technical Council, a mutually beneficial relationship for Dell and SNIA to move the needle together in the Industry.

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

• Chair, SNIA SDXI+CS Subgroup
• Participant, AI Task force
• Participant, SNIA Dictionary Team
• Participant(monitoring), CXL, TCG, PCI SIG, NVMe.

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

Memory Data Movement, Acceleration, Storage Services, and Security.

Biography:

Shyam is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell's Chief Technology Office experienced in Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading, and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. With 50+ 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, and Security Modelling, etc.

Frederick Knight

Voting Member Company: KIOXIA
Title: Principal Standards Technologist
Length of Employment with Current Company: 11 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 47
Education: BS

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

TC member, Dictionary Contributor, DI TWG, MMA TWG, HSI TWG chair; NVM TWG observer, Object Drive TWG observer, Cloud TWG observer, SDC Committee member.

Employment History:

• Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) / Compaq / HP (1977 – Oct 2005): Principal Instructor – Taught customers and employees programming, OS usage / management, support methods and internal design
• Consulting Software Engineer – Develop Operating System software for multiple OSes (proprietary and UNIX based systems) at multiple layers including device drivers (for SCSI, ATA, and proprietary devices), file systems, networks, system services, memory management, user interface, and high availability (clustering).
• NetApp (Nov 2005 – Sep 2023): Host Interoperability Architect – Drive interoperability of NetApp solutions across multiple host platforms to insure supportability, maintainability, and high customer satisfaction with NetApp storage solutions.
• Standards Technologist – Represent NetApp at various standards bodies (IETF, JEDEC, NVMe, SNIA, TCG, INCITS/T10/T11/T13). Work with various industry competitors and partners to bring new ideas (SCSI Copy Offload, SCSI Thin Provisioning, SCSI BIND/UNBIND for Vvols, FC Peer Zoning, etc) into the standards. Work at JEDEC to bring TCG security and encryption to NVDIMMs.
• Represent ANSI at ISO/IEC meetings as the T10 International Representative (IR), T13 IR, and ISO/IEC SC25/JTC1/WG4 Convenor.
• KIOXIA (Oct 2023 – present): Standards Technologist – Represent KIOXIA at various standards bodies (NVMe, SNIA, TCG, T10, T13). Work with various industry competitors and partners to bring new ideas (RAID Offload) into the standards.

Industry Achievement Awards:

• INCITS Technical Excellence Award for work at T10
• INCITS Technical Excellence Award for work at T11
• INCITS Merit Award for longstanding contributions to INCITS International work
• Recognition as a NVMe 2.0 Key Contributor
• IEC 1906 Award for exceptional and recent contributions

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I would like to continue my involvement in SNIA to help provide support and guidance to the larger storage developer community, to increase the availability of additional storage standards, and broaden knowledge in the industry.

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

• INCITS T10 (SCSI) – contributor; International Representative Officer
• INCITS T13 (ATA) – contributor, International Representative Officer
• ISO/IEC JTC1 – International Representative for T10 and T13; JTC1/SC25/WG4 Convenor
• NVM Express Consortium – contributor, Editor
• TCG - contributor

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

• Education (including dictionary, speaking @ SDC, and Brightalks)
• TWG oversite
• Computational TWG
• SDXI TWG
• Security TWG

Biography:

Fred is a Principal Standards Engieer at KIOXIA He has over 45 years of experience in the computer and storage industry. He currently represents KIOXIA in several US national standards bodies, international standards bodies and several Industry Associations, including SNIA, NVM Express, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), INCITS SCSI (T10), and INCITS ATA/ACS (T13). He is the Convenor for the ISO/IEC JTC-1 / SC25 / WG4 international committee (which oversees the international standardization of INCITS T10 / T11 / T13 documents). Previously, Fred was the chair of the SNIA Hypervisor Storage Interfaces working group, the primary author of the SNIA HSI White Paper, the author of the IETF iSCSI update RFC, and the editor for the SCSI SAM-6 standard and SCSI SES-3 standard.

Fred received several awards for excellence and innovation while at NetApp as well as the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his contributions to both T10 and T11 and the INCITS Merit Award for his longstanding contributions to the international work of INCITS. He also received the prestigious IEC 1906 award in 2022 for his international work in IEC.

He was the developer of the first native FCoE target device in the industry. He contributes to technology and product strategy and serves as a consulting engineer to product groups across the company. Prior to joining KIOXIA, Fred was a Principal Engineer at NetApp, and a Consulting Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and HP where he worked on clustered operating system and I/O subsystem design.

David Peterson

Voting Member Company: Broadcom
Title: Principal Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 17 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 41 years
Education: Electrical Engineering - Hennepin Technical College

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

Technical Council Member, 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.

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 standard(s), the FC-NVMe standard(s), the FC-SW standard(s), FC-SP-3 standard, FC-RDMA standard, and chair of the FC-SW and FC-GS expert 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.

Yves Santos

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: STSM - IBM Storage Data Resiliency Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 12 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 13 years
Education: MS Data Science, BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin

Employment History:

I have received 3 major corporate recognition from IBM for my product development contributions, and the products have received industry recognition from analysts.

• IBM Corporate Award 2022 - IBM Safeguarded Copy on FlashSystems
• IBM Corporate Award 2018 - FlashSystem 9100 Development with NVMe storage
• IBM Corporate Award 2015 - FlashSystems 900 Development

Product awards:

• Flash Memory Summit 2018 - Flash System 9100 - Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology
• Storage Insiders 2020 Readers Choice Award - FlashSystem 9100

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

My current focus is the intersection of Storage, AI, and Security. As a TCC member I would like to continue to pursue innovation in these areas through multi-vendor collaboration. IBM is heavily invested in AI. I would like to continue to represent IBM at the TC as Voting Member.

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

I participate at TCG as part of the Security TWG, and at NVM Express and SNIA as part of the Computational Storage working group.

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 special interest in AI and Security applications in Storage, and how storage can help improve AI workloads, and keep data centers secure from cyber attacks. There are a lot of opportunities for multi-vendor collaboration and standardization across storage use cases for AI, and Data Science applications.

Biography:

Yves Santos is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Systems Storage in Houston, Texas, US. As a storage development architect, he worked on all FlashSystem storage branded products, including the enablement of NVMe drives, computational storage, and snapshots. He currently leads Cyber Resiliency and Security across the FlashSystem products and oversees the architecture of Safeguarded Copy, Cyber Vault, and AI-based threat detection.