About the OCP Advisory Board
The OCP Advisory Board (AB) is a group of OCP Corporate Members who are appointed by the OCP Foundation Board of Directors and the Foundation CEO to provide specialist and strategic advice to help solve a range of business and growth challenges. The AB members may be asked to provide advice on how to grow the Foundation, manage a significant business or technology transition, and expand into new innovative technologies, market segments and geographies.
The AB will be chaired by at least one Foundation staff member. Each Corporate member on the AB will appoint a single representative (with approval from the AB co-chairs) to represent them. Unlike a board of directors, the members of the AB are not authorized to act or make binding decisions on behalf of the Foundation and they do not have any fiduciary responsibility. The OCP Advisory Board is not legislated or regulated by any corporate governance policies.
The OCP Advisory Board will meet quarterly, with subgroups meeting more often to tackle special projects. The tenure of an OCP Advisory Board member is two years. An OCP Advisory Board member may apply for additional two-year terms.
Also, the Open Compute Project Foundation and OCP Board of Directors (BoD), from time to time, may wish to add new directors to foster diversity and inclusivity in other market segments and geographies. Candidates for joining the OCP BoD will be chosen from the AB.
Meet our current Advisory Board members!
Jeff Wittich
Computing Chief Product Officer
Ty Schmitt
Fellow in Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) CTO organization
Ralf Pieper
R&D Director for Server, Networking and Telecom applications
Alee Fong
Global DC Infrastructure
Jim Britton
Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Haryong (Harry) Yoon
EVP of Memory Marketing and Product Planning, Samsung Electronics
Fabricio Alves Borges
League Leader of Rack DC Systems
Mohamad El-Batal
Chief Technologist – Systems
Rich Lappenbusch
Senior Principal
Robin Balen
Chief Product Officer
OCP Advisory Board Chair:
- Steve Helvie, VP Emerging Markets, OpenCompute Project Foundation
- Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer, OpenCompute Project Foundation
How is the OCP Advisory Board appointed?
The CEO and Board of Directors will use the following criteria to select Corporate Advisory Board members in an open application process..
- Must be an OCP Member
- Demonstrates Technology Leadership in its Market Segment
- Potential Market Impact
- Cultural Alignment with Open Systems
- Represents new business segment, technology segment or business type, or geography for the OCP Community
Diversity: The goal of the Advisory Board is to be an inclusive group and have geographic diversity with global representation.
Expectations of the OCP Advisory Board
The co-chairs of the AB will bring projects and work items to the AB Members to be carried out by select members and provide non-binding recommendations. AB members will be expected to be active participants in work items.
AB member companies will also be evaluated on their contribution to the OCP Community:
- Volunteer positions held by members of their Company
- Committed sponsorships for OCP events and directed funds
- Approved contributions with authors from their organizations
- Marketplace listings (for vendor member companies)
- Accepted OCP Event Presentations