Michael Oros Executive Director, SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of storage and information technology, announced the appointment of Michael Oros as its new executive director.

He brings more than 20 years of experience in strategy, planning, development, and execution in IT services and high-tech industry.

“We are very pleased to have Michael join SNIA,” said chairman David Dale. “His track record for building strong organizations and driving technical collaboration between organizations and across industry sectors will bring the perspective and expertise required to further the SNIA’s vision and charter at this time of profound industry change.”

“I’m excited and delighted to join SNIA at such an amazing time in the industry,” added Oros. “As the pace of innovation in the storage industry accelerates and the landscape continues to shift for media, interfaces, and application models, SNIA is strongly positioned as the collaboration hub for vendors, partners, IT and industry professionals. Together, through standards and thought leadership, SNIA and its members will lead IT initiatives focused on solid state storage and persistent memory, data protection and security, enterprise cloud computing and data management services, and storage infrastructure management.”

In his time at Intel Corporation, Oros oversaw a variety of business development and strategic industry initiatives for the company’s cloud, data center, storage and mobility efforts. He led the formation of the Open Data Center Alliance, and with the board of directors, established the organization’s presence and reach across six continents, with over 300 world leading members accelerating cloud adoption and transformation of the IT landscape. He also led the storage and networking components vendors through the biggest I/O transitions of the past decade, and this industry transformation experience is invaluable as the storage industry is on the precipice of the most significant transitions of this decade. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and a Master of International Business Administration. When not at work in high-tech industry, he spends his time as an author, photographer, winemaker, sommelier, diving, playing tennis and traveling the world in 60+ countries.

He will fill the position previously held by Leo Leger who announced his retirement from the organization in late 2015.