Siamak Tavallaei is currently the Chief Systems Architect at Google Systems Infrastructure and co-chair of CXL Board of Director’s Technical Task Force. At OCP, Siamak served as co-chair of Server Project from June 2016 to Jan 2021 where he introduced the Modular Building Block Architecture (MBA) concept, co-authored several specifications for open-source solutions such as HGX-1, OAM, and Project Olympus. He also initiated a collaborative effort on open accelerator infrastructure (OAI) and datacenter-ready secure control module (DC-SCM). His plans are to encourage industry-wide participation and continue driving open-source contributions toward a modular hardware system (DC-MHS) and an integrated HW/SW system ready for hyperscale, enterprise, and edge datacenters (DC-Stack). At Google, he drives system architecture and productization of solutions around CXL-enabled opportunities. His current focus is the optimization of large-scale, mega-datacenters for general-purpose computing and accelerated, tightly-connected, problem-solving machines built on co-designed hardware, software, security, and management. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he was part of Azure’s Next Cloud System Architecture team collaborating with industry partners to drive a number of initiatives in research, design, and deployment of hardware for cloud-scale services such as Azure, AI, Bing, Office 365, Exchange, and SQL across a global datacenter footprint. Siamak holds over 40 patents in computer server architecture, design, and fault management; he has led and served on industry-wide initiatives; and he often shares his learning through published papers and presentations at industry conferences. His leadership drove large projects and facilitated communication, collaboration, and contributions of diverse talents for industry-wide initiatives such as InfiniBand and CXL specifications; while, his expertise in memory and storage hierarchy enabled improved performance, reliability, availability and serviceability of servers and solutions. As we collectively reinvigorate the server industry and streamline efficient, flexible, and scalable hardware and software through Open Compute Project, we enable developers to focus their brain power and efforts on solving higher ordered problems. With his seasoned leadership, Siamak has been actively participating in CXL consortium and OCP activities fostering the philosophy and the direction of the OCP Foundation by effectively communicating the core OCP tenets and encouraging the community to participate in transparent, worldwide collaboration. Such inclusive participation of diverse contributions and meaningful feedback will drive technical excellence and a healthy OCP ecosystem.