Board of Directors

David joins board members Andy Bechtolsheim, Anurag Handa (Intel), Partha Ranganathan (Google), Zaid Kahn (Microsoft), and Rebecca Weekly, who serves as Board Chair. A leader in Meta's AI Systems and Accelerated Platforms, David is responsible for driving technology ecosystems, partnerships, and technical business operations, and is passionate about furthering the company's ecosystem bonds.

Prior to joining Meta, David spent 18 years at Intel. In his most recent role, he served as the General Manager of the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) business, responsible for building and selling hardware network accelerators that enable cloud service providers to customize infrastructure function deployments, while improving data center utilization by enabling flexible workload placement. He has also served as the COO for Intel's Data Center Connectivity Group, as well as in roles supporting Intel Capital, Technology Development and Technology Manufacturing.

"We want to thank Mark Roenigk for his decade-long leadership serving on the OCP Board, including as Chair. Mark is a big reason we have the reach, influence and impact in the industry today, with nearly 300 corporate members, and tens of thousands of engineers and thought-leaders collaborating worldwide," states Rebecca Weekly, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation.

"The OCP Foundation and the Community welcomes David and we are excited to have his leadership and experience to help guide us through the next decade and beyond. We also would like to express our gratitude to Mark Roenigk for his long-standing services, support and guidance," states George Tchaparian, CEO for the Open Compute Project Foundation.

In 2009, Meta started a journey in designing efficient and sustainable data centers that ultimately led to the founding of the Open Compute Project (OCP). Today, the company's infrastructure supports more than 3.7 billion users and incorporates the hardware innovations and solutions driven and open sourced through the Open Compute community.

Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Prior to joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP.  Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Universal Chiplet Express Interconnect, the co-chair of the Open Compute Foundation Storage Project, and on the Board of Directors for the Universal Chiplet Express Interconnect. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.

Amber earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been granted more than 20 patents in storage architecture. Amber is known as an inclusive leader and passionate mentor for technologists, including a track record of sponsoring numerous men and women to senior technologist positions.

Jeff is a corporate vice president in Intel’s Data Center and AI group and general manager of Custom Products and Ecosystem. His team is responsible for the definition and development of product solutions that meet customer’s unique requirements while leveraging the breadth of the x86 software ecosystem. He recently helped form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, which brings together leading companies to advance the architecture and drive adoption through consistent software interfaces.

Spanning nearly three decades of industry experience, Jeff has held various engineering, product development, and business roles. A sampling of his responsibilities includes leading Intel’s HPC and data center GPU business, engineering leadership for foundational software across Intel’s client, edge and data center product lines and the creation of cross-architecture software solutions such as OpenVINO and oneAPI, and early pioneering research on video and vision processing.

Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Duke University and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Jeff has been issued more than 20 patents, named to the “People to Watch 2022” list by HPCwire, and served on the Duke Engineering Alumni Council.
 

Saurabh Dighe is Corporate Vice President in the Azure Hardware Systems organization at Microsoft, where he oversees hardware architecture and technology roadmaps for Cloud and AI infrastructure. His work focuses on advancing systems and silicon architecture to drive the next generation of Azure's hardware infrastructure.

With extensive expertise in guiding systems architecture, platform strategy, and industry ecosystem partnerships, Saurabh has been instrumental in transforming Microsoft's hardware infrastructure. Under Saurabh's leadership, Microsoft has introduced leadership server platforms, incubated emerging technologies, and contributed to key industry standards, fostering innovation across compute, AI, and storage systems.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Saurabh spent 15 years at Intel, where he served as a research scientist in Intel’s microprocessor research group, pioneering new computing technologies. Saurabh holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Andreas Bechtolsheim is a Founder and Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks, a high-speed datacenter and cloud networking company. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures.

From 1995 to 1996, Andy was CEO and President of Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet Switching startup company he founded that Cisco acquired in September of 1996. From 1996 to 2003 Andy was General Manager for the Gigabit Systems Business Unit at Cisco System that developed the Cat-4K Switch family, which became the highest volume modular switching platform in the industry.

As a private venture investor, Andy has been involved in the funding of numerous companies including Google, VMware, Mellanox, Brocade, and Magma Design. He has served on the Board of Directors of 25 companies, the majority of which went public or were acquired.

Andy earned a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976. He was a doctoral student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a German National Merit Foundation scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, and he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

George Tchaparian is a seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of industry experience in all corporate levels and functions. George was the longstanding President and CEO of Edgecore Networks Corporation. Most recently, George was a corporate executive focusing on transformative next generation strategies for the Accton Group (Accton Technologies and Edgecore Networks Corporation), and previously a senior vice president of worldwide research & development (R&D). George was also the General Manager for Accton Group's Open Disaggregated Networking Business. George also held senior management positions at Hewlett–Packard Corporation (HP) for more than 25 years, and has served as the Co-Chair of Open Compute Project (OCP) Taiwan regional community for many years and a member of the Open Network Foundation (ONF) board of directors. In 2018, George was recognized as one of "The World's First Top 50 Edge Computing Influencers" (#EDGE50) and in 2019, one of "The World's Most Influential Data Economy Leaders" (#POWER200).