Ethernet Alliance Board of Directors

Brad Booth, Chair

Brad Booth is a Senior Principal Engineer for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC). He is Chairman of the Board for the Ethernet Alliance and serves as co-chair for the Ethernet Alliance University Program. Brad also serves as treasurer for the IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working Group. Previously, he has worked for Quake Technologies, Intel, Level One Communications, Jato Technologies, PMC-Sierra and Bell-Northern Research. He served as a Director and as the VP of Technology for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA). Brad was the Chair of IEEE Std. 802.3an™-2006 and prior to that, he was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Std. 802.3ae™-2002. In 2003, Brad received recognition as a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Thomas Scheibe, Treasurer

Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is a Product Line Manager responsible for Cisco’s pluggable transceiver portfolio. During his time at Cisco he worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company advising clients in the transportation, automotive and energy industry. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

David Law

David Law is a Consultant Engineer at 3Com where he has worked on the specification and development of Ethernet products since 1989. Throughout that time he has been a member of the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD (Ethernet) Working and has served as the Vice-Chair since 1996. In 2004 he was appointed to the IEEE-SA Standards Board review committee (RevCom) and in 2005 was also appointed to the IEEE-SA Standards Board as well as the IEEE-SA Standards Board patent committee (PatCom).
In 2000 he received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for 'leadership and technical contributions to Ethernet networking standards'.

Yong Kim

Yong Kim has been a long time IEEE 802 contributor, starting in 1985 with Ethernet/802.3 10 Mbps Coax and repeater standards to current 10G, as well as involvements in 802.4 Token Bus, 802.5 Token Ring, 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring, 802.11 Wireless LAN and of course 802.1 Bridging standards. Yong is a Technical Director at Broadcom Networking Infrastructure and had various executive technical positions at Allayer Communication, LANart, Chipcom and engineering positions at Apollo Computers and Raytheon.

Stephen M. Garrison

Stephen Garrison has more than 19 years experience designing and implementing strategic marketing programs for the telecommunications industry. He is currently the vice president of corporate marketing at Force10 Networks, where he is responsible for the company’s customer solutions and next generation networking technologies marketing programs. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Garrison was the senior director of marketing at Riverstone Networks. Earlier, he was the director of marketing at Cabletron Systems. Garrison holds four patents and has authored a series of papers exploring the impact of network reliability on an organization’s productivity. Garrison received a B.S. in ceramic science from Alfred University and an M.S. in materials science and engineering from MIT.

Robert Hays

Robert Hays is a strategic planner at Intel Corporation for desktop, mobile and server networking products. Robert currently serves as a Director of the Ethernet Alliance, Chair of the Energy Efficient marketing committee, and participating member of the Higher Speed Ethernet marketing committee. Robert has also made recent contributions to future Ethernet standards in the IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group and Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force.

Dan Dove

Dan Dove is a Principal Engineer for LAN Physical Layer Devices at ProCurve Networking by HP. His career includes over 25 years in the ProCurve business unit, starting out as a production assembler and working his way through various manufacturing and design positions. He has worked in design since 1988 and is currently responsible for ProCurve's PHY strategy, PoE System Architecture, and IEEE 802.3 Standards Representation. Dan has been an active member of the IEEE 802.3 working group since 1992 and chaired the 802.3ak task force for 10GBASE-CX4.

Dilip Modi

Dilip Modi is currently Marketing Team Lead at Sun Microsystems for the Networking and Security product line. Prior to Sun he had several responsibilities in inbound and outbound marketing in Networking Startups, Lucent Broadband Wireless and Hewlett-Packard. Dilip graduated from IIT Bombay and received his Masters Degree in Engineering and MBA from UC Berkeley.

Ethernet Alliance Officers of the Board

Harpreet Chadha, VP of Technology

Harpreet Chadha is Senior Director of product management at Extreme Networks, where he oversees product development of scalable Ethernet switching solutions that help enterprises and carriers build intelligent, cost-effective networks.  Prior to Extreme Networks, Chadha was senior principal engineer and product manager at CoSine Communications, where he built and marketed an IP Switch that featured unprecedented scale of virtual routers, firewalls and encryption services.
Prior to CoSine, he was a senior developer and architect for network planning tools at Make Systems (later acquired by OPNET) and storage systems at Alphatronix Inc (later acquired by Auspex). Chadha graduated from IIT Roorkee, India, and holds a Masters Degree and Doctorate from North Carolina State University.

Blaine Kohl, VP Marketing

Blaine Kohl is Vice President of Marketing and Sales Worldwide and Business Development for North America, for Tehuti Networks, a 10 Gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP accelerator company. She also serves as the Vice President of Marketing for the Ethernet Alliance, an industry consortium dedicated to the promotion of Ethernet technologies. Blaine has 14 years of experience in wired and wireless networking and communications technologies and products and offers specific expertise in developing and launching new technologies and products. She also brings broad experience in non-profits and alliances ranging from technology to equestrian sports. She last served as the Vice President of Marketing for Bandspeed. Prior to that she was Intel's Director of Marketing for iSCSI, 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet product lines where her teams launched the industry's first iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. Prior to Intel, Blaine was at Level One Communications, Jato Technologies and Motorola.
 

Angela Muscat, VP Educational Services

 
Angela Muscat has more than eight years of high tech industry experience, developing strategic alliances as well as corporate IP strategies. With a focus on emerging markets, Angela enjoys hosting round table events and organizing speaking panels promoting the Ethernet Community. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Angela held sales management positions at Sygate (acquired by Symantec) and Vernier Networks. Earlier, she worked as a member of the IT department at the United States Naval Academy.  Angela received her degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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