Company Represented While Actively Involved with the SNIA:
IBM
Current Company:
None
Years with the SNIA:
1999-2019
Committees, Forums, Initiatives, Board Seats Held at the SNIA:
Vice-Chair, SNIA Europe
Treasurer, SNIA Europe
Chairman, SNIA Europe
Strategic Alliance Forum
SDC Committee
Fondest Memories of the SNIA:
Establishing SNW in Europe as the major Storage Event (since 2001 until 2015, in Seville, Cannes, then Frankfurt)
Proudest Moments while Active with the SNIA:
Establishing SDC EMEA in 2018 in Tel Aviv
SNIA's Greatest Achievements:
In Europe, we created the attention, enablement and deployment of key storage technologies, from storage management SMIS, to Object Storage, Flash, Persistent Memory and others, as critical technologies. We created several enablement activities such as SNW, SNIA Academies, SDC, Webcasts, Education and Certification activities, and enabled many industries and companies to focus on storage.