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Operational Leadership

Leadership Members

President and CEO

Dr. Craig Lee was named President/CEO of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) in October 2007. He is a Senior Scientist in the Computer Systems Research Department of The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit, federally funded, research and development center. At the Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Lee advises civil, commercial and governmental agencies on all issues relating to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and is responsible for the transfer of maturing technologies into new application domains. This work has led naturally to Dr. Lee's involvement in the Open Grid Forum where he was a working group chair and an area director prior to becoming president.

Lee has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Vice President of Standards

Chris Smith is a Principal Product Architect at Platform Computing. Since 1997, as an employee of Platform, he has been involved in the development of the Platform LSF suite of workload management products, with a focus on the integration of Platform's Grid middleware into production Grid solutions within High Performance Technical Computing disciplines. As an active member of the Open Grid Forum, he has contributed to and authored a number of specifications concerned with Grid workload management. Previous to Platform, he was a system administrator at the University of British Columbia's Computer Science department, where he also received his degree.





Vice President of Enterprise

Robert Fogel directs world-wide Grid strategy and business development for the Intel Corporation. In this capacity, he works closely with strategic members of the Grid, Utility Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture communities, as well as coordinates a cross-Intel effort to drive solution requirements from these communities into Intel's software and hardware product roadmaps. Fogel spent several years in High Performance Computing, and a significant part of his career as a systems architect developing reusable flight hardware and software for communications satellites, network file servers, optical storage devices, electromagnetic reproducing pianos, digital signal/image processing solutions, and real-time monitor & control systems for JPL-NASA's Deep Space Network. He earned his Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University.



Vice President of E-Science

Geoffrey Charles Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Computer Science, Informatics, and Physics at Indiana University. He is director of the Community Grids Laboratory of the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has published over 550 papers in physics and computer science and been a major author on four books. Fox has worked in a variety of applied computer science fields with his work on computational physics evolving into contributions to parallel computing and now to Grid systems. He is chief technology officer of Anabas Inc. which develops Grid technology for Net Centric Systems.



Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific (including Japan)

Toshihiro Suzuki is currently Senior Director, Standards Strategy and Architecture for Oracle Corporation Japan, overseeing Oracle's standardization activities in Japan. He participates in various industry consortia and standards setting organizations including Web Services and Accessibility groups within Japan and ISO/IEC JTC1. Mr. Suzuki served as the chairperson of the EGA (Enterprise Grid Alliance) Japan regional steering committee to organize and evangelize the alliance in Japan. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Suzuki worked for IBM. Beginning his career in 1985 at IBM Japan's Yamato Laboratory as a developer on projects dealing with operating systems, character input methods, and distributed object technologies; he also worked in planning, standardization, and technology consulting roles and contributed to a variety of projects including: Operating System/2, Common User Access (CUA), Unicode, Taligent, OpenDoc, and Java-based software agent platform. Mr. Suzuki received a Masters degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology where he also completed doctoral course work in BioEngineering; his advanced studies focused on theorization of information for receivers in autonomous systems under disequilibrium dynamics.



 

 

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