CTO and Senior VP, NetApp
Brian Pawlowski is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NetApp. Since joining NetApp in 1994, he has been involved in the design of high performance, highly reliable storage systems. Pawlowski has been working on open protocols for storage since an earlier position at Sun Microsystems, was co-author of the NFS Version 3 specification and is currently co-chair of the NFS Version 4 working group at the IETF. Pawlowski led the design team for NetApp’s first SAN product and holds several patents related to that work. Pawlowski started the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp four years ago to conduct storage research. Additionally, he has been driving the Open Source strategy at Network Appliance, defining NetApp’s community engagements and directing funding to open source efforts critical to NetApp’s customer’s success.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Barbara Gee, VP of Programs
- Deanna Kosaraju, VP of Strategic Initiatives
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Kirk Ross, VP of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Manager of Research and Executive Programs
- Kim McLeod, Leadership Development & Academic Initiatives Program Manager
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- Carolyn Strobel, Marketing Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Community Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
- Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
- Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
- Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
- Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
- Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
- William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
- Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
- Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Linda Apsley, Principal Group Program Manager, Xbox Live Services, Microsoft Corporation
- Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
- Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs
- Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
- Krista Claude, Head of Product and Content Technology, Thomson Reuters Core Legal
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, Huawei Technologies
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Gilda Garreton, Principal Engineer, Oracle Labs/Oracle
- Mark Guzdial, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Anne Hardy, Vice President Developer Evangelism, SAP Labs
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Cindy Lain, Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur and Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Wei Lin, Senior Director, Engineering Consumer Business Unit, Symantec
- Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer, Intel
- Karin Meyer, Intuit
- Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
- Radha Nandkumar, Senior Research Scientist Director, ICARE – International and Campus Relations, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- Tracy Prentiss
- Mary Ramsey, Lockheed Martin
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Audrey Van Belleghem, Director, Office of the CTO, NetApp
- Sheila Van Groningen, Vice President, Airborne ISR, Cyber Intelligence Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems