Conference Advisory Board
Conference Chairperson
Jonathan Hinkle is the Storage and Memory Systems Architect at Viking Technology, where he is developing new technologies and products that leverage next-generation memory and storage architectures. Before joining Viking, Mr. Hinkle worked at IBM where he developed server systems ranging from high-end enterprise boxes to blade servers. He is the chairman of the Hybrid Memory Module task group, chair of the VLP task group and vice-chair of the JC45.1 RDIMM committee in the JEDEC standards organization. He also invented and drove first development of the VLP DIMM and the SATADIMM. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.
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Nishi Ahuja |
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Gorge Alexy |
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Berg Software Design is a consultancy that has provided design and development services for storage devices, storage interfaces and file systems since 1985. Brian A. Berg, its President, has a wealth of experience with Flash Memory, Optical Storage (CD, DVD), Magnetic Storage and RAID Arrays; USB, SCSI, iSCSI, SAS, IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA and Fibre Channel; and Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Server Blades. Brian has been a software and firmware developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and technical writer. He has participated in over 50 conferences as a speaker, session chair and conference chair. He has also worked extensively with intellectual property and patents, particularly in the storage arena. |
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Frank Berry |
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Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer responsible for Server Hardware Architecture and Standards for Global Foundation Services (GFS) in May 2007. He is currently Chief Architect responsible for the technology roadmap for the compute infrastructure for Microsoft’s online services. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1997 for contributions and technical leadership in the design of complex and reduced instruction set architecture and in computer system performance analysis. He has previously held senior technical and management positions at Intel, Digital Equipment, and Texas Instruments. Dr. Bhandarkar holds 16 U.S. Patents and has published more than 30 technical papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He is also the author of a book titled Alpha Implementations and Architecture. In 1998, he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering in 1970. He also has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and has done graduate work in Business Administration at the University of Dallas. |
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Jean S. Bozman is a well-respected IT professional with more than 20 years of experience covering the worldwide markets for operating environments, servers and the workloads that run on servers. Ms. Bozman began her career at IDC in 1996, focusing on the worldwide market for server operating systems. In her current role as research vice president in IDC's Enterprise Server Group, she analyzes the worldwide server market and she manages the Clustering and Availability Software (CLAS) market research for IDC. Ms. Bozman is widely quoted in business publications, including BusinessWeek and Investors Business Daily; in daily newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and Los Angeles Times; and in online publications, such as CNET (news.com), Bloomberg and Reuters. Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Bozman was an editor at Computerworld. She started Computerworld's Chicago Bureau in 1987, initiating Computerworld's coverage in the Midwest, and she moved to California as the publication's Senior West Coast Editor in 1989, covering the open-systems market. Ms. Bozman holds a B.S. in earth and space sciences from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and a master's degree from Stanford University. |
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Tom Burniece |
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Frank Chang is currently Principal Engineer, Systems at Vitesse Semiconductors Corp principally specializing in optical system engineering and IC product specifications and definition issues for telecom, datacom and PON access markets. Previously he worked as individual contributor and project manager roles at JDS Uniphase, Cisco/Pirelli, and Mahi Networks for the development of WDM systems, linecards, and fiber optics components. He has coauthored over 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, contributed to two book chapters and represents Vitesse at standard organizations including the OIF/ITU-T, IEEE802.3, FSAN, and Ethernet Alliance. He has been serving as the member of the technical program committee for OFC/NFOEC for many years in a row and a number of other international conferences. He holds a Ph.D degree in Optoelectronics from the University of Montreal, and is Senior Member of IEEE/LEOS and OSA. |
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Michael Cobb |
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Jim Cooke is a Sr. Manager for Micron’s NAND Flash technical marketing team. He has a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts. Previously, he was responsible for managing the applications engineering group at Micron. Jim has held similar positions at Toshiba America Electronic Components. In addition, Jim has over 20 years of hands-on systems-level design experience in embedded applications, enterprise and consumer markets. |
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Nabil G. Damouny has over 25 years of Silicon Valley marketing and engineering experience in Communications and Networking, for both semiconductors and systems. He is currently the Sr. Director of Strategic marketing at Netronome, and the principal at Damouny & Associates LLC, a high-tech consulting firm. Nabil was a founder and the vice president of marketing and business development at Basis Communications, where he originated and positioned the company to be a leader in the new “Service-Specific Network Processor” market segment, leading to its acquisition by Intel Corp. Spending 5 years at Intel, Nabil was most recently a member of the CTO office in the Intel Mobility Group, responsible for driving Intel VoIP strategy. For the prior 3 years he was responsible for strategic planning at Intel’s Communications Group focusing on security, management and wireless communications. He has managed his own consulting business for the past 2 years. Earlier he held engineering & marketing positions at Fairchild, Philips Semiconductor, Nortel, and NEC America. He earned a BSEE from IIT in Chicago, and a MSECE from UC Santa Barbara. He holds 3 patents in computer architecture and remote networking. |
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Sachin Desai |
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Lloyd Dickman |
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William Dunckel is the Energy Solutions Manager for High tech and Biotech market segments in the Customer Energy Efficiency division of Pacific Gas & Electric Company. His current focus is self generation, demand response and energy efficiency in hi-tech facilities with a focus on laboratories, clean rooms and data centers. Since 2004 he has helped PG&E achieve world-wide recognition as the leading utility company in hi-tech energy efficiency. Having grown up in California’s “Silicon Valley” William has gathered experience in Electronics Manufacturing, Robotics Design, and Information Technology in addition to Facilities Design and Construction Management. He holds degrees in Mathematics from Cal Berkeley and Industrial & Systems Engineering from San Jose State University. William is a licensed Professional Engineer in California and is currently the Energy Committee Chairman of the Critical Facilities Roundtable, a consortium of data center and critical facilities owners and operators in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Richard Fetik, CISSP, is CEO and founder of Data Confidential, a security consultancy focusing on data confidentiality, system reliability, and reductions in operating costs. He is an expert at designing security into the real world, including embedded systems and devices as well as traditional IT systems. Rich has broad product experience from design and development through market introduction and evangelism. He is also the inventor of a new security model that includes the patented storage firewall and other technologies; this approach provides protection for device integrity (anti-tamper), information assurance, and data confidentiality, while enhancing operational adaptability and preserving functionality while under cyber-attack. |
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John Fryar |
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Jacob Hall |
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Robert Hormuth |
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David Kassel |
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Tim Mackey |
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Stan McClellan is the Chief Architect of Systems & Solutions at ZNYX Networks, and Associate Director of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for the architectural definition of systems based on strategic technologies and industry standards, such as PICMG 3.X AdvancedTCA™. Dr. McClellan has held positions in enterprise, military/aerospace, and academic industries, and served as chief technologist, chief architect, or lead engineer for several distributed real-time systems. Most recently, he was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Power Tagging Technologies, developing a revolutionary approach to Smart Grid systems using advanced signal processing. He has also served as a technology & business consultant for commercial entities including BellSouth, MCI/Worldcom, Motorola, Cisco, 3Com, Alcatel, Nortel, N.E.T., Gerson-Lehman Group, the National Science Foundation, and others. As the author of numerous peer-reviewed technical publications and US/international patents, Dr. McClellan is an expert in networking and distributed system optimization, particularly for voice/video transport with quality of service constraints (QoS). He has made invited contributions to well-known references including Advances in Computers, The IEEE/CRC Electrical Engineering Handbook, and The Encyclopedias of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. He is also a regular reviewer for several IEEE publications. |
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Linda McClure |
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KRS Murthy is an experienced venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. He is currently focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and competitive strategy. He has led many companies at many different stages and has grown companies to sales of over $500 million. He is a popular speaker at conferences around the world and a leader in many technical societies, including IEEE Nanotechnology Council, IEEE Engineering Management Society, IEEE Computer Society, Silicon Valley Engineering Council, and IEEE Standards Board. Murthy also has experience as a Country Manager for AT&T and AT&T Bell Labs and as a professor of computer engineering at California State University, Fullerton. He has received a Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Engineering Management Society and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the President of India. |
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Adrian Proctor |
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Anil Rao |
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Charles Rego |
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Adam Roberts |
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Winston Saunders |
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Sean Stead |
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Mark Szalkus is a Director of Technical Application Engineering at GE Energy’s Digital Energy business, responsible for the application engineering of Digital Energy products in North America. He has over 20 years experience in electrical distribution and power quality businesses, with leadership roles in field service, application engineering, service engineering, and marketing. Mark began his GE career with GE Zenith Controls in 1986. He has held roles of increasing responsibility in service and engineering including Field Service Coordinator, Senior Application Engineer, and Application Engineering Manager. Most recently as Marketing Manager for the Power Equipment P&L’s Power Quality business. Prior to GE, he has held roles as Field Service Engineer and NETA certified test engineer in the Utility industry, and Director of Engineering for a leading industrial equipment manufacturer. Mr. Szalkus has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering Technology. He is also a member of The Green Grid, EGSA, NFPA, and Uptime Institute. He is a published author of several technical articles and papers in the Power Quality industry. |
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As Sr. Product Marketing Manager for advanced computing SSD products at STEC, Swapna Yasarapu is charged with leading STEC advance SSD computing group to deliver state of the art design and products. With a Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Irvine specializing in Computer systems and software and MBA from Anderson School of Management, University of California, LA with emphasis in Marketing and Strategy, Swapna blends her technical knowledge with her knowledge of the hi -tech industry in bringing enterprise class products to market. Swapna has over 10 years of in depth experience in hi-tech storage networks with responsibilities spanning from ASIC development, product development to managing hardware and software storage products through concept and development to production. |
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Jonathan Hinkle
Brian A. Berg
Dileep Bhandarkar
Jean Bozman
Frank Chang
Jim Cooke
Nabil G. Damouny
William Dunckel
Rich Fetik
Stan McClellan
KRS Murthy
Mark Szalkus
Swapna YasarapuCAB Observer
Tinh Ngo
Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications,
Viking Technology
