Conference Advisory Board
Conference Chairperson
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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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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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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Kimball Brown is the VP and Senior Datacom Analyst with LightCounting; his focus is on servers, switches and semiconductors for the enterprise networking market. Mr. Brown was previously VP of Business Development for ServerEngines Corporation, a fabless ASIC development firm recently purchased by Emulex. ServerEngines developed multiple ASICs, but the key chip was a 10 GbE controller, which is used by Emulex in all its Ethernet products. The ASIC fully offloads all major 10GbE protocols including TOE, vNIC, iSCSI, and FCoE. Mr. Brown was also VP of Business Development from 1999 to 2003 at ServerWorks, the fabless ASIC developer of Intel-based server chipsets that was acquired by Broadcom in early 2001. ServerWorks achieved 95% market share for Intel-based server chipsets. Previously, Mr. Brown spent twelve years as a sell-side and industry analyst for Prudential, IDC, and Dataquest/Gartner covering the PC, mobile computing, and server markets. He began his career at IBM and then moved to Amdahl in the mainframe market. Mr. Brown received a BSEE from Duke University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley |
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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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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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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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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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Karl Freund is the Vice President of Marketing at Calxeda, the venture-backed startup developing ARM-based SOCs for hyper-efficient servers. He previously has held executive positions at IBM, SGI, Cray Research, and Hewlett-Packard, and has focused on building market preference and share for Mainframes, SuperComputers, and RISC-based Unix systems. At Autin-based Calxeda, he is part of a young and passionate company dedicated to lowering the power and space requirement for the largest complexes of scale-out web, cloud, and enterprise data centers in the world. Mr. Freund holds a Bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
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John Fryar |
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Jacob Hall |
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Jonathan Hinkle is the Memory Systems Architect at Viking Modular Solutions, a Sanmina-SCI company. He leads the division's efforts to define and drive future technology and products. Most recently he created the SATADIMM SSD and is focused on Hybrid memory and advanced SSD's. Prior to joining Viking, Mr. Hinkle worked at IBM developing x86 systems from high-end rackmount boxes to blade servers. At IBM, he also invented and drove standardization of the VLP DIMM. He is heavily involved in setting JEDEC industry standards for memory products and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. |
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Kevin Heslin is editor of Mission Critical, a BNP Media publication, since helping launch it in 2007. Previously he was editor of Energy and Power Management and Energy User News, also BNP Media publications. Prior to joining BNP, Heslin also edited publications in the lighting industry for both the IESNA and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center, and in the electrical construction industry. He is a 1981 graduate of Fordham University and earned his Master's Degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2000. |
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Sameer Kuppahalli |
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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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Peter Mojica |
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Bruce Myatt |
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Joe Polastre is an entrepreneur and technology executive with an outspoken opinion on energy strategy, policy, and trends. He has been awarded the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs and named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. He is an expert in sustainability technology and policy, as well as IT and application architecture. Joe is currently Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Sentilla, a data center analytics company. Prior to joining Sentilla, Joe held software development, product manager, and data center operations positions with IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and INetU. Joe holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University. |
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Jim Porter |
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Adrian Proctor |
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Charles Rego |
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Anil Kumar Sahai |
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Winston Saunders |
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Scott Stetzer is VP of Technical Marketing at STEC, the leading independent company in the OEM SSD business. He has helped develop the company’s roadmap for using SSDs to provide business value to customers. A long-time proponent of SSDs as a disruptive technology for the enterprise, Mr. Stetzer has helped bring five new SSD product families to market in the last three years. He has more than 20 years experience in the hard disk drive business with companies like Western Digital, Maxtor, and Quantum. He has described today’s solid state solutions and how they solve specific business challenges in keynotes at the International Disk Forum (Japan), Storage Network World (Europe), and the Data Storage Forum (China). |
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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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Swapna Yasarapu
Brian A. Berg
Dileep Bhandarkar
Kimball Brown
Jean Bozman
Frank Chang
Jim Cooke
Nabil G. Damouny
Rich Fetik
Karl Freund
Jonathan Hinkle
Kevin Heslin
Stan McClellan
Joe Polastre
Scott Stetzer
Mark SzalkusCAB Observers
Michael Bingham
Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications,
STECTinh Ngo
Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications,
Viking Modular SolutionsKarran Toffelmier
Marketing and Communications
Viking Modular Solutions
