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2011 Board of Directors

John D’Ambrosia, Dell – Chair

As the Chief Ethernet Evangelist in the CTO Office at Dell, John D’Ambrosia leads the company’s involvement in industry standards and organizations. John has been an active participant in the development of Ethernet-related technologies since 1999. At the present time, John is the acting chair for the IEEE 802.3 100 Gb/s Ethernet Electrical Backplane and Twinaxial Copper Cable Assemblies Study Group. John was the chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force, which developed the standard for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet. John served as secretary for the IEEE 802.3ap Backplane Ethernet Task Force, and participated in the development of XAUI for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. John is a founder of the Ethernet Alliance and has served as a director and secretary. John was the chair of the XAUI Interoperability work group for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. For all of his efforts related to Ethernet, John was recognized by Network World in 2006, as part of its “50 Most Powerful People in Networking” list. John also acted as secretary for the High Speed Backplane Initiative and chair of the Optical Internetworking Forum’s Market Awareness & Education committee.

Scott G. Kipp, Brocade – President

Scott G. Kipp is an author and engineer who participates in industry organizations, develops standards and writes books as a Senior Technologist at Brocade. He is an expert on networking, including protocols, fiber optic links and cable management.

Scott has worked on a number of industry associations including:

The Ethernet Alliance – Kipp is Brocade’s primary representative to the EA and has spoken at two TEFs and participated in the Power over Ethernet, High Speed Ethernet and Ethernet in the Data Center technical committees.
The Fibre Channel Industry Association – Kipp was the chair of the Fibre Channel Roadmap Committee and is actively involved in driving the various activities of the association. Scott has written three books for the FCIA on Fibre Channel technologies and written several white papers and given presentations at conferences on Fibre Channel technologies.
Storage Networking Industry Association – Kipp has staged interoperability events, spoken at SNW and developed storage management standards in this organization.

Scott works on many standards committees including:

IEEE 802.3 standards including 802.3ba where he played a key role in adding the 40 Gb/s speed in addition to 100 Gb/s Ethernet
Optical Interconnect Forum where he is defining the Common Electrical Interface that will be used in the second generation of 100 GbE
Chair of the 10×10 MSA to define a low cost 100 GbE single-mode link
Chair and Editor of the Quad SFP (QSFP) MSA that developed the first pluggable 40 Gb/s transceiver standard that can be found at www.qsfpmsa.net
T11 Technical Committee for Fibre Channel Interfaces where he was Vice-Chair of T11.5 Task Group and has been editor, chair and secretary for multiple standards including FC-MI, FC-SWAPI, FC-BB and FC-DA
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he authored two MIBs
The SFF Committee that defined the SFP+, IFP and QSFP+

David Dale, NetApp – Treasurer

David Dale is the industry standards director at NetApp. He is responsible for identifying the industry standards activities that are important to NetApp and its customers, determining the appropriate participation level for NetApp and representing NetApp within industry associations and at industry events.

With over 20 years experience in the computer industry, he has been at the forefront of new technology initiatives in company roles such as technology evangelist, strategic marketing analyst, and product launch specialist. Most recently, David was industry evangelist for NetApp’s SAN products.

He has been involved in industry and standards activities over the years, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), where he is also chair of the Ethernet Storage Forum. Previous responsibilities include:

Founder and Chair of the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) consortium
Chair of the Direct Access File System collaborative
Member of the marketing committee of the InfiniBand Trade Association
Vice-chair of the SNIA Data Management Forum

David is a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a much-requested speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe.

David was educated in England, and received a bachelor of science degree in applied physics from University College London.

Bruce Tolley, Solarflare – Secretary

Bruce Tolley is responsible for solutions and outbound marketing including technical, event, and partner marketing activities at Solarflare. Previously, he served as Solarflare’s Vice President of Marketing, and earlier Director of Marketing. Prior to joining Solarflare, Bruce was a Senior Product Line Manager at Cisco Systems where he managed the Ethernet transceiver business that included product life cycle management and the launch of Metro Ethernet, 10 Gigabit, and 1000BASE-T switch solutions. Prior to Cisco, he served in various marketing management roles at 3Com Corporation. Formerly Study Group Chair of the IEEE 802.3aq 10GBASE-LRM standards project, Bruce is a frequent contributor to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards projects and served as an officer of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. Bruce holds a BA from UC Santa Cruz, completed graduate studies at Tuebingen University, Germany and Cambridge University, UK and holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and a PhD from Stanford University.

Howard Frazier, Broadcom

Howard M. Frazier serves as Senior Technical Director at Broadcom Corporation, responsible for technical strategy development within the Office of the CTO for the Infrastructure Networking Group (ING). Prior to Broadcom, Frazier served as a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He is one of the co-inventors of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet.

Frazier also served as chairman of the IEEE 802.3 task force that defined the standards for Ethernet in the First Mile (IEEE Std 802.3ah), Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3z) and Fast Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3u), and is currently chairing the Ethernet MIB modules Task Force (IEEE P802.3.1). He has served as the chairman of the IEEE Standards Association Review Committee (RevCom) and as the vice chairman of the IEEE-SA Standards Board.

Among his accomplishments in high-speed networking, Frazier led the development of the world’s first 10/100BASE-T network interface controller in 1993 during his tenure with Sun Microsystems. He has also co-authored a book titled, “Ethernet in the First Mile: Access for Everyone,” published by the IEEE Standards Information Network/IEEE Press. Frazier is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University.

Alessandro Barbieri, Cisco

Alessandro Barbieri joined Cisco Systems about 13 years ago and occupied a wide range of positions from engineering, to technical marketing and product management. Alessandro is currently a Product Line Manager in the Cloud Switching and Technology Group at Cisco where he is responsible for the Catalyst 6500 Ethernet Switching platform.

Alessandro has a broad product management experience spanning across numerous networking technologies in Data Center and Enterprise Networking. Alessandro’s core expertise is in IP and Ethernet systems, from an end to end system/architecture perspective all the way down the technology building blocks such as ASICs, optics and interconnects.

Alessandro has a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Parma, Italy.

Sunil Ahluwalia, Intel

Sunil Ahluwalia is Marketing Chair of Ethernet Alliance Data Center subcommittee as well as Sr. Product Line Manager at Intel’s LAN access division. At Intel, he is responsible for marketing 10GbE products and storage technologies for the Data Center. Ahluwalia has over 14 years of management experience in the software and semiconductor industry during which he held various positions in strategic planning, product marketing, and product development.

Prior to his current assignment, Ahluwalia was Strategic Marketing Manager in the Server platform group; in this capacity he led a team that redefined server product roadmap.

Prior to joining Intel in 2000, Ahluwalia served as Director, Professional Services for Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. There he lead the expansion of Trillium’s services business and established an overseas development center in Bangalore, India.

Ahluwalia received an MBA from University of Oregon’s Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. He also holds a bachelor of technology degree in computer science and engineering from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India.

Manoj Wadekar, QLogic

Manoj Wadekar is Fellow & Technology Strategist at QLogic Corporation and is responsible for driving architecture and technology strategy for QLogic’s Adapter products in Data Centers. He has been driving cross-industry initiative for IO Consolidation over Ethernet for Data Center deployment. Manoj is leading the effort for QLogic in various standards bodies: IEEE, IETF and T11 to drive DCB and Storage over Ethernet. Manoj has 16+ years experience in networking industry and has led various product teams for Ethernet Switch and NIC products, Frame Relay and ATM products. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India and has nine pending patents.

Appointed Committee Chairs

Manoj Wadekar, Technical Committee Chair

Chauncey Schwartz, Marketing Committee Chair

Chauncey has a successful 25+ year career in sales, marketing and business management. He has a proven ability to position, communicate, and teach markets and channels about creative break-through solutions generating successful business results while leading highly successful cross-functional teams. Chauncey is currently working with QLogic to develop strategies for Alliances focused on networking connectivity and to find creative ways to incorporate virtualization and fabrics into complex application environments.

Management Team

Ethernet Alliance Administration: Morgan Seibert Fricke

Morgan Seibert is a Director of Accounts within VTM’s Initiatives Management Group at VTM, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for leading client accounts as well as an account team dedicated to management and support activities for multiple VTM clients. She has extensive experience in consulting, management, marketing and event planning for several high-tech industry standard organizations. Since joining VTM in 2005, Morgan’s consulting experience includes work with Ethernet Alliance, High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance, Digital Living Network Alliance, Advanced Access Content System, Service Availability Forum, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, Digital Content Protection and Blu-ray Disc Association.

Morgan holds a B.A. in business with an emphasis on both marketing and management from Portland State University.