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 worked on open protocols for storage since he held an earlier position at Sun Microsystems. He was coauthor of the NFS Version 3 specification and is co-chair of the NFS Version 4 working group at the IETF, which has just released the forthcoming open standard for file sharing NFS Version 4.1. Pawlowski led the design team for NetApp’s first SAN product and holds several patents related to that work. He also started the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp in 2004 to conduct storage research. Research focus areas for ATG include virtualization and advances in storage efficiency and green technologies working in partnership with companies like VMware, Microsoft and the Xen community. In addition to funding collaborative projects with university research centers, Pawlowski has taken and active role in the development of our intern and university recruiting programs to move them into a strategic business investment.
Pawlowski manages strategies around standards and industry consortiums for NetApp. Additionally, he has been driving the Open Source strategy at NetApp, defining NetApp’s community engagements, and directing funding to open source efforts, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and Xen, critical to NetApp customer success.
Pawlowski is on the board of The Linux Foundations in addition to board of trustees for The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and on the Women of Vision Award selection committee.
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
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Kirk Ross, VP of Finance
- Suzanne Andrews, Director, TechWomen Initiative Liaison
- Jagruti Bhikha, Director, Grace Hopper Celebration India
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Research and Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Carol Rudisill, Director, Academic Initiatives and Leadership Development
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Research and Executive Programs Manager
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager and GHC Academic Liaison
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- Carolyn Strobel, Marketing Manager
- Bénédicte Richardson, Program Associate, TechWomen
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
- Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- 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
- 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
- Danielle Cummings, PhD student, Texas A&M University
- Katy Dickinson, Director, 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
- Nanditha Iyer, Student, Georgia Tech
- 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, Director, Platforms, Intuit
- Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
- Radha Nandkumar, Independent Research Consultant
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- 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