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About Us: The Green Grid Board of Directors

	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. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Green Grid consortium since its founding. Mr. Vertal was named by InformationWeek as one of the Industry's 15 Innovators & Influencers. Prior to joining AMD, Mr. Vertal was vice president of marketing for Conita Technologies. He also held a variety of positions with AT&T and NCR including director of strategic relations and director of product marketing. While at both AST Research and MAI Systems he was responsible for the multiprocessor systems businesses. Mr. Vertal was also the founder of Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC.
	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.
	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.). Kathrin Winkler, EMC Corporation As Sr. Director, Corporate Sustainability, Kathrin is charged with providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of EMC's strategy for environmental and social sustainability. Kathrin works with functional leaders in EMC's Green Business Leadership, a cross-functional virtual team that champions company-wide environmental initiatives, to ensure the integration of sustainability principles in day-to-day operations. She founded and sponsors the company's EMC's Engineering Green Team and its Design for Environment program, which are driving leadership designs in environmental stewardship and energy efficiency throughout EMC's product portfolio. Kathrin joined EMC in 2003 as Director, NAS Product Management, and subsequently served as Senior Director of Product Operations for EMC's Storage Platforms Operations group. Her Previous positions include Vice President, Technical Marketing in a Web services security startup, Principal Consultant/Analyst specializing in enterprise management systems and service level architectures at Renaissance Worldwide, and Consultant Software Engineer in Network Systems Engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation.
	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.
	Tom Brey, IBM Tom Brey is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Systems and Technology Group. Tom has 29 years of experience within IBM in the architecture and development of IT equipment. Joining IBM in 1979, Tom worked in mainframe hardware development and systems management. Currently, Tom is working on hardware and software systems architectures, strategies and services which allow data centers to operate at high productivity levels while consuming a minimum amount of energy. This is part of Project Big Green, IBM's commitment of $1 billion per year to deliver technologies that help customers increase the level of energy efficiency in their data centers. Since it launched the project in May 2007, IBM has engaged with more than 2,000 clients to deliver a variety of hardware, software and services technologies that help businesses reduce data center energy consumption and cut energy costs by more than 40 percent by certain measures. As a key evaluator and decision-maker in energy management within the data center, Tom takes responsibility for keeping IBM at the forefront of emerging technologies and standards bodies in this area.
	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.
	Geoffrey Noer, Rackable Systems Mr. Noer is Vice President of Product Management at Rackable Systems. In this position, he is responsible for product strategy and management of Rackable Systems' product lines. In addition to designing high efficiency server and storage products for large scale data center environments, Rackable Systems has won awards for its ICE Cube container-based data center which can reduce cooling costs by up to 80% over conventional data centers. Mr. Noer has 14 years of experience in the computer industry. Before joining Rackable Systems in 2003, he led technical marketing and systems engineering at Zambeel, a scalable network attached storage start-up. Earlier, he was director of field applications engineering at Red Hat via its acquisition of Cygnus Solutions, focused on open source software development tools and Linux. Mr. Noer holds a BA in Computer Science from Swarthmore College.

	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.