About Us: The Green Grid Board of Directors

          
      Winston Bumpus, VMware

      Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at
      VMware, has had over 35 years of experience in the
      computer industry. He is currently the President of the  
      DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards
      organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior
      to VMware he was Director of Systems Management
      Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open
      Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books
      "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of
      Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF
      for over 14 years and worked on its early development of
      the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based
      Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded  
      and chaired its Application Management Working Group.
                                                                                        

      Mark Monroe, Sun Microsystems

      Mr. Monroe is the Director of Sustainable Computing for Sun
      Microsystems. In this position, he is responsible for driving
      Sun's Green Data Center initiative. Sun is a leader in 
      eco-responsible computing, and is working to build on its 
      momentum by creating a blueprint for the design and
      operation of environmentally responsible data centers. The
      ultimate goal is to enable sustainable, carbon neutral
      computing at a large scale. Mr. Monroe has 25 years of
      experience in the computer industry. His years in IT
      operations at Sun included application and system design,
      data center operations, service level management, process
      design and analysis, and vendor/outsourcing management.
      He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Master
      Black Belt.

      Jim Pappas, Intel

      Mr. Pappas is the Director of Initiative Marketing in Intel’s
      Server Platforms Group. In this role, Jim is responsible to  
      work with the industry on the development of products that 
      comply with server I/O, power, and memory initiatives such 
      as PCI Express, Geneseo, InfiniBand™ architecture, The 
      Green Grid, and Fully Buffered Dimm (FBD). Mr. Pappas has
      25 years of experience in the computer industry. He has
      served on the board of directors for a number of technology
      initiatives, most notably the PCI Special Interest Group as a 
      founding member, and the USB Implementers Forum as the
      founding chairman

      Tony Pierce, Microsoft

      Mr. Pierce is the Group Manager of Core Platform
      Evangelism for Microsoft’s Core Operating Systems Division.
      Since joining Microsoft Corporation in 1999 he has served 
      as the main technical and business lead in multiple
      technology areas including ACPI, PCI Express, and UEFI.
      Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Pierce spent six years with Compaq
      Computer Corporation as a Systems Engineer and Architect.
                                                                         

      John Pflueger, Ph.D., Dell

      John Pflueger, Ph.D., is a technology strategist in Dell’s Data
      Center Infrastructure organization, driving strategy and
      implementation efforts aimed at improving data center
      efficiency.  In this role, he is responsible for a number of
      data center issues including defining and leveraging the
      relationship between facility and IT resources.  John has 16
      years of experience working in the computer and
      semiconductor equipment industries, including product
      development, product marketing and product management
      roles.  John attended the Massachusetts Institute of
      Technology, receiving Mechanical Engineering degrees in
      1985 (B.S.), 1988 (M.S.), and 1991 (Ph.D.).

      Lawrence E. Vertal, AMD

      Larry Vertal is a senior strategist for AMD. In this role he is 
      responsible for both the strategy and execution of selected
      corporate and commercial initiatives. Mr. Vertal has more
      than two decades of operational management, strategic
      relations, corporate governance and marketing experience
      with technology companies. His range of success spans
      from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. Mr. Vertal was
      named by InformationWeek as one of the “15 Innovators &
      Influencers Who Will Make A Difference In 2008.” Prior to
      joining AMD, Mr. Vertal held a variety of positions with     
      AT&T and NCR including director of strategic relations and
      director of product marketing. He previously was vice
      president of marketing for Conita Technologies. While at AST
      Research he was responsible for the multiprocessor
      systems business and served as worldwide representative
      of the executive office. At MAI Systems, Mr. Vertal oversaw
      development and marketing of four generations of parallel
      processing systems. Mr. Vertal was also the founder of
      Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise
      Solutions, LLC. Mr. Vertal holds a bachelors degree in
      Bacteriology with a minor in Philosophy from California State
      University, Los Angeles, followed by graduate research in
      Chemistry focused on paramagnetic resonance.

      Donald E. Tilton, Ph.D., SprayCool

      Dr. Tilton received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering
      from Washington State University in 1985, and Masters and  
      PhD, also in Mechanical Engineering, from University of
      Kentucky in 1987, and 1989 respectively.  He founded
      Isothermal Systems Research (ISR/SprayCool) in 1988 while
      working on his Doctorate in Spray Cooling.  He served as
      the company’s President and CEO until 2001, and
      Vice-Chairman of the Board through 2007.  He is a named   
      inventor on more than 20 issued patents and many more
      disclosures and applications currently in process.  Other
      accomplishments include serving as an Adjunct Professor in
      Mechanical Engineering in 1992/1993, at Washington State
      University, and serving on the Washington State University
      Research Foundation Board of Directors for five years from
      1993 to 1998.  In 2006, he was awarded the Distinguished
      Alumni Award for the Dept. of Mechanical and Materials  
      Engineering. Currently, Dr. Tilton remains a Director of
      ISR/SprayCool, and also serves as a Director for The Green
      Grid. 

      
     Roger Tipley, Hewlett-Packard

      Mr. Tipley is an engineering strategist in Hewlett-Packard’s
      Enterprise Storage and Servers business unit, and has 
      spent the last several years working on technologies to 
      manage power consumption and improve the energy
      efficiency of enterprise-class information technology
      products.   
          

 
      John Tuccillo, American Power Conversion Corp.

      John Tuccillo serves as the Vice President of Global Industry
      and Legislative Initiatives at American Power Conversion
      Corp. (APC) in West Kingston, RI.  John is responsible for
      building collaborative technology and business alliances with
      key industry leaders as well as policy and standards bodies
      in the variety of markets served by APC.  Previously, John
      served as Global Director of Data Center Systems where he
      led a team of systems engineers, application engineers,
      product management and marketing professionals focused
      on delivering interoperable infrastructure and management
      systems.  Mr. Tuccillo has 25 years experience within the IT
      and manufacturing industries working within the hardware,
      software, components and services categories.

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