Leadership

Advisory Council

David Reiner
Chairman

David Reiner

AMD Server Standards Strategist, SPEC President

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

David Reiner is AMD's Server Standards Strategist, the President of SPEC, and the Chair of The Green Grid. He leads Advanced Micro Devices’ Industry Benchmark Consortium, Government Energy Regulation, and International Energy Standards strategy and representation for the Datacenter Solutions Group. He is AMD's primary representative to SPEC, The Green Grid (TGG), ISO/IEC, and worldwide government energy efficiency regulatory agencies (EPA, CNIS, EU Commission, METI, and UBA). He also interfaces on AMD's behalf with ITIc, USITO (China), Digital Europe, TCO, and JEITA (Japan). He is the President of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmark consortium (since 2017) and has been a member of SPEC’s Board of Directors since 2011. David is the Chair of The Green Grid (since 2020), leading the TGG Advisory Council, the highest body within TGG. He also is the Chair of TGG's Server and Storage Energy (SSE) Working Group, the leading energy efficiency analysts and primary voice of industry to worldwide governments for Server and Storage energy efficiency regulations.

David is the originator and Editor of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 21836 Draft International Standard, which is expected to be the standard methodology for evaluating server energy efficiency for government regulations worldwide. Previous roles include TGG Board of Directors (prior to ITIc acquisition), representative to EEMBC benchmark consortium, manager of AMD’s Server Performance and Power Optimization (SPPO) team, and a number of performance and power analysis engineering roles for server, workstation, and client products, both at AMD and Dell. David holds a Computer Engineering degree from Purdue University.
Donald Goddard
Vice Chairman

Donald Goddard

Environmental Product Engineer

NetApp, Inc.

Donald Goddard is responsible for Environmental Product Compliance at NetApp, Inc. This includes compliance with RoHS, REACH, and other dangerous or hazardous material regulations related to products. He is also responsible for Energy Efficiency regulatory compliance.

He is currently Green Grid Advisory Council Vice Chairman and serves on several Green Grid and ITI technical or standards committees. He also serves on the SNIA Green Storage Initiative as Co-Chairman of the Green Storage Technical Work Group.

He has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering From Arizona State University.
John Frey
Advisory Council Member

John Frey

Senior Technologist, IT Efficiency and Sustainability

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dr. John Frey developed and leads HPE’s practice for customer collaboration on sustainability and IT efficiency. He partners with HPE’s largest customers, stakeholders, and governments to develop net positive solutions to business challenges, share best practices, and drive new business opportunities. Dr. Frey was named an HPE Strategist, the highest level of technical achievement, in recognition of his sustained leadership and contributions.

Dr. Frey is a member of the Advisory Council for The Green Grid, the Advisors Board of the Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice University, the Engineering Entrepreneurship Steering Council at Texas A&M University, and Sustainable Brands’ Advisory Board.
Ricardo Gonzalez Llera
Advisory Council Member

Ricardo Gonzalez Llera

Corporate Environmental Affairs - Manager, Energy, Climate and Global Environmental Management System

IBM Corporation

Ricardo Gonzalez has a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering with a MSc degree in Environmental Planning and Management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and a MSc in Environmental and Health Management from MIT and Harvard School of Public Health.

As a Senior Engineer and Manager of IBM's Corporate Environmental Affairs Staff, he is responsible for leading IBM’s corporate climate and energy strategy and goal setting: energy conservation, operational CO2 emissions reduction, renewable electricity procurement, and product and data center energy efficiency and for establishing and advocating for IBM's public policy positions on these topics. He drives business unit attainment of IBM energy and climate goals and works with business units to establish, timely update and execute against their energy conservation and efficiency plans in support of these goals. Provides advice and counsel to business units on energy and climate issues (e.g., regulations, compliance strategy, RFPs, client and 3rd party inquiries, marketing materials). He is responsible for the global execution of IBM's Global Environmental and Energy Management Systems, Including maintaining IBM's ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 single global certifications. He is responsible for IBM’s external disclosures and advocacy in these areas.

Ricardo is a member of the Advisory Council for The Green Grid, and a member of the US Technical Advisory Committees to ISO TC 207 (Environmental Management Systems) and TC 301 (Energy Management Systems).
Shahid Sheikh
Advisory Council Member

Shahid Sheikh

Intel

About the Advisory Council

The Green Grid Advisory Council consists of end-user Contributor Members and is chartered to:

Serve as an advisory body to The Green Grid’s Board of Directors by providing input and guidance on the
general direction of the association’s strategies
Actively participate in The Green Grid’s Technical Committee activities
Help guide and shape the desired outcome of published materials, processes, and recommendations from The Green Grid as one unified voice of the end-user community
Drive greater awareness of The Green Grid within the broad community of data center end users

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David Reiner

Donald Goddard

John Frey

Ricardo Gonzalez Llera

Shahid Sheikh

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