SNIA 2014 Board of Directors and Technical Council

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced its 2014 board of directors and Technical Council at the SNW conference.

The SNIA board is charged with oversight of the association’s vision and mission as well as ensuring that tangible value accrues to Member companies.

“Rapid changes in technology are bringing both opportunities and challenges in the IT industry. SNIA, with its focus on technical and educational programs, is well-placed to provide value to the industry and expand our influence in areas such as cloud computing, solid state storage, analytics and big data, energy efficiency, and data management,” stated David Dale, SNIA’s newly elected COB.

Dale added: “The results of the elections and appointments for the 2014 leadership positions on our board and Technical Council provide both continuity, and expanded industry participation with the addition of J Metz from Cisco to our board, Bill Martin from Samsung Electronics to our Technical Council, as well as new IBM representatives on both the board and Technical Council. We continue to be pleased by the industry’s ongoing commitment to SNIA and look forward to a successful year.”

2014 SNIA board of directors and their roles:

David Dale (NetApp), chairman and executive committee
Molly Rector (Spectra Logic), vice chairman and executive committee
Peter Manning (HP), secretary and executive committee
Allan Zmyslowski (Fujitsu America), treasurer and executive committee
Wayne Adams (EMC), chairman emeritus, member and executive committee advisor
Leo Leger (SNIA), SNIA executive director, non-voting member and executive committee
Don Deel (EMC), non-voting member and technical council chairperson
Tony Di Cenzo (Oracle), member
David Gimpl (IBM), member
Skip Jones (QLogic), member
J Michel Metz (Cisco Systems), member
Jim Pappas (Intel), member
SW Worth (Microsoft), member

Dale announced the appointment of outgoing SNIA chairman, Wayne Adams as chairman emeritus and added: “Wayne decided to step down from his role as chairman but will remain on the board and stay actively engaged with many SNIA programs. As chairman emeritus, he will also continue to be an ambassador for SNIA.”

SNIA’s Technical Council is responsible for providing guidance and direction on the numerous technical activities of the association including SNIA architectures and standards, cross-industry technical alliances, and the agendas of SNIA symposia and other events including SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference (SDC).

Don Deel, chairman of the SNIA Technical Council, stated: “We will continue to build on the successful technical activities underway across all of our technical work groups delivering technology standards and interoperability programs within a vendor-neutral, collaborative environment. We are pleased to be adding global participants to our team.”

2014 SNIA Technical Council and their roles:

Don Deel (EMC), chairman
Bill Martin (Samsung Electronics), vice chairman
Arnold Jones (SNIA), technical council MD, non-voting member
Craig Carlson (QLogic), member
Mark Carlson (Oracle), member
Gilles Chekroun (Cisco Systems), non-voting member, SNIA Europe representative
Chin-Fah Heoh (Storage Networking Academy), non-voting member, SNIA South Asia representative
Fred Knight (NetApp), member
Carlos Pratt (IBM), member
Yukinori Sakashita (HDS), non-voting member, SNIA Japan representative
Leah Schoeb (Evaluator Group), member
Dave Thiel (Dave Thiel Consultant, LLC), non-voting member
Doug Voigt (HP), member
Steve Wilson (Brocade), non-voting member
Alan Yoder (Huawei Technologies), member