SNIA Europe Board of Directors for 2009-2011

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe announced the new Board of Directors elected by its members for the 2009-2011 term. This group of tenindustry leaders will work closely together to deliver on SNIA Europe’s mission to promote the acceptance, deployment and confidence in open storage–related architectures, systems, services andtechnologies, across the IT and business community.

The new Board of Directors are:

Officers

•  Chair: Bob Plumridge, Hitachi Data Systems
• Vice Chair: Malte Rademacher, EMC
• Secretary and Marketing Chair: Denise Ridolfo, NetApp
• Treasurer: Daniel Sazbon, IBM

Directors

• Gilles Chekroun, Cisco Systems
• Aad Dekkers, MTI
• Mike Murphy, Brocade
• Thomas Pavel, LSI
• Marcus Schneider, Fujitsu
• Chris Sopp, HP

“My aim as Chairman of SNIA Europe is to continue to build on the successes we have achieved in the nine years since its formation. Having just returned from the largest and most successful SNW Europe event ever and seeing the overwhelming interest from end users in many new innovations such as Cloud, Data De-Duplication and Solid State Storage makes this an exciting time to a part of the storage industry,” said Bob Plumridge, SNIA Europe’s Chairman. “I am honoured to have been elected by my Board colleagues to serve as Chairman of SNIA Europe. With the wealth of knowledge and experience we have on the incoming SNIA Board, we can provide leadership and education in all these important areas. I am looking forward to engaging with all those interested in the future development of this industry.”