John Geldman leads the storage standards engagements of Kioxia. He has been contributing to standards for five decades. John has dabbled in NAND & Spinning Storage, Linux & VxWorks internals, Networking, Security, and IC development (and Daisy Wheel printers). John’s storage experience started with SASI and ST-506 designs a long time ago John currently sits on the SNIA Board of Directors, Chairs the SNIA Alliance Committee, and co-Chairs the NVMe-MI Task Group. John continues to contribute to these organizations: NVM Express, PCI-SIG, SNIA, JEDEC, SCSI/T10, ATA/T13, IEEE SiSWG, & TCG. John has been on the board, an officer, a chair, and/or edited specifications for: CompactFlash, SD Card Association, USB, UFSA, IEEE 1667, JEDEC, SCSI/T10, & ATA/T13.