Leadership

Peter Jones, Cisco

Chair

Peter is a Distinguished Engineer in the Cisco Networking HW team. He works on system architecture and standards strategy across the portfolio. While at Cisco, Peter has been a major contributor to the Catalyst switching product line, including the Catalyst 9000 series and the UADP ASIC family. He has been active in IEEE 802.3 for several years, mostly working on BASE-T projects. He was the initial chair of the Ethernet Alliance Single Pair Ethernet technical subcommittee. He was Chair of the NBASE-T Alliance from its inception until its merger with the Ethernet Alliance. He works on evolution of technology to add value to physical infrastructure and make technology consumable.

Chris Lyon, Amphenol

President

Chris Lyon is the Cloud Business Development Manager for the Americas at Amphenol CS., where he is responsible for finding new opportunities and then actively driving and managing technology requirements during the sales process. With over 30 years’ experience in the industry, Chris has expertise in storage, networking, high speed interconnect, go-to-market strategy, team building, and professional services. With a long history of involvement and managing industry standard associations, Chris spent over a decade as executive director for both the SCSI trade Association and the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and received a service award in 2012 from INCITS. For over nine years, he’s been actively involved in helping the Ethernet Alliance (EA) in its participation in industry conferences and creating compelling technology demonstrations. He currently serves on the Ethernet Alliance board of directors as President of the EA and is also Chairman for FCIA.

Jeffery Maki, Juniper

Treasurer

Dr. Jeffery J. Maki is a Distinguished Engineer II at Juniper Networks working on pluggableoptics. He is a member of the board of directors of the Ethernet Alliance as Treasurer and an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet voter. For the OIF, he is a member of the board of directors, Physical Layer User Group (PLUG) working group chair, and technical voter for Juniper Networks. For the Advanced Photonics Coalition (formerly Consortium for On-Board Optics), he is a member of the board of directors as Vice President and Treasurer. He is co-chair of the 100G Lambda MSA and a founding member of the QSFP-DD, OSFP, SFP-DD, and OpenZR+ MSA groups. He is an Optica and IEEE member. He has a Ph.D. in Optics from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Carl Wilson, Intel

Secretary

Carl Wilson is currently a Ethernet Silicon and Technology Planner for Intel’s Ethernet Products Group. With Intel since 1999, Carl has held a variety of marketing and product planning roles covering Ethernet, encryption technologies, Xeon processors, and Thunderbolt. His first marketing activities for Intel began in 1999 with the Intel’s 100BASE-TX CardBus Mobile adapters and first 1000BASE-T adapters. He has been part of Intel’s Ethernet marketing team through most of the Ethernet transitions over the last two decades, including: 1000BASE-T, PCI-X 10 Gigabit, PCI-X and PCI Express 10GBASE-T, 802.3bz (NBASE-T), 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100, and RDMA. For last 10 years, he has been focused on marketing Intel’s Ethernet controllers and Ethernet IP for SoCs for worldwide market segments including IoT, Automotive, Client, Workstation, Datacenter, Comms, Storage, and Cloud Computing. He is currently planning Intel’s next generation Ethernet IP for these markets.

Kishore Racherla, Broadcom

Kishore Racherla is a Product Manager at Broadcom, managing Ethernet PHY portfolio for Automotive as well other markets such as Enterprise/Industrial applications. He has been with Broadcom for over 5 years and has been in semiconductor industry for more than 18 years. Prior to joining Broadcom, he managed Automotive wireless product line at Maxim Integrated. In the past 5 years, he has represented Broadcom as a Board member on Ethernet Alliance, ASA (automotive Serdes alliance) and OPEN Alliance where he also served as the secretary. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from NSUT, Delhi and MS in Electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

John Calvin, Keysight

John Calvin is a strategic planner and DataCom technology lead for Keysight Technologies. John has been bridging the measurement science gaps of emerging Telecom and DataCom development efforts for 20 years. He serves on the Ethernet Alliance board of directors and is a contributing senior member to IEEE 802.3, OIF-CEI, InfiniBand, and PCIe development efforts. John holds a BSEE from Washington State University, and his graduate level studies are in signal processing from Stanford University.

Dave Estes, Spirent

Dave Estes is a Hardware Engineer at Spirent Communications with over 20 years of test & measurement industry experience, he focuses on supporting new product and standards development. Dave is actively involved in a number of industry organizations, including IEEE 802.3 and OIF standards groups and has served for several years as Ethernet Alliance’s Technical Lead at innovative, multi-vendor, interoperability demonstrations at various industry tradeshows and testing events such as OFC, ECOC, and HSE plugfests.

David Rodgers, EXFO

Events & Conferences Committee Chair

David J. Rodgers is a 35+ years industry professional, primarily focused on the Test and Measurement market. His experience encompasses a comprehensive background in business and program management, and product development of serial protocol test and measurement solutions. He possesses wide-ranging serial communications protocol and interconnect validation experience, concentrating most recently in Ethernet network and Fibre Channel fabric solutions where he has been defining, designing, deploying, and marketing a broad range of high-speed serial analysis test and measurement products. He currently represents EXFO for High-Speed electro-optical Test Technologies including Ethernet and Fibre Channel in various protocol industry groups, including the IEEE and T11 standards bodies and the Ethernet Alliance and the Fibre Channel Industry Association. He is an original member of the USB Implementers Forum and one of the pioneer marketers of USB protocol analyzers.

Committee Chairs

Orshi Abraham, Spirent

Marketing Committee Chair

Orshi is a Product Marketing Manager at Spirent Communications, where she focuses on creating and delivering the go-to-market plan and executing marketing activities for a broad range of High-Speed Ethernet, Cybersecurity, Automotive, and Cloud & Virtual test solutions. With over 15 years of experience in the field of marketing, 8 years of which spent in the test & measurement industry, she brings a diverse creative palette of ideas, knowledge, and experience to help amplify the Voice of Ethernet and contribute to the important work of the Alliance, facilitating the adoption and deployment of Ethernet technologies, and connecting Ethernet’s technologists and consumers.

George Zimmerman, CME Consulting

Technical Committee Chair

Dr. George Zimmerman is President of CME Consulting, a California-based consulting firm specializing in physical layer communications and associated powering technologies, active in standardization and development of Ethernet in emerging applications. He has been a defining force in the development of multiple Ethernet technologies, chairing, editing, and technically driving SPE, 10GBASE-T, Energy Efficient Ethernet, as well as various DSL (now EFM) technologies. George holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University. Dr. Zimmerman is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and in 2017 received the Standards Medallion from the IEEE- SA. He holds more than 20 patents, a Ph.D. from Caltech, and a BSEE from Stanford, and is a member of BICSI, TIA TR42, the Ethernet Alliance and a principal member of NEC codemaking Panel 3, representing the Ethernet Alliance. As a consultant, his clients include networking systems, cabling infrastructure, and physical-layer silicon companies.

David Rodgers, EXFO

Events & Conferences Committee Chair

David Tremblay, HPE

PoE Certification Chair

System Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Aruba Networking division. Over 25 years of experience architecting, designing, and leading engineering teams to release Aruba Networking Enterprise and Small Medium Business Wired and Wireless products to market. HPE’s Power over Ethernet (PoE) subject matter expert leading cross functional consensus building and driving networking technologies into multiple HPE product organizations. Pre-Sales engagement and onsite customer support activities resulting in HPE Aruba networking product sales wins and regional growth. Patent trial experience in US Federal courthouse successfully defending HP company. Active participant in standards organizations including Technical Chair of the PoE Subcommittee at Ethernet Alliance, voting member of IEEE 802.3, member of IEEE-SA Power Delivery Coordinating Committee (PDCC) providing input to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and member of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) US Technical Advisory Group (TAG). Received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. Holds two US Patents in the Networking field.

Mark Nowell, Cisco

Advisory Board Chair

Mark Nowell is a Cisco Fellow in Cisco’s Optics and Optical Systems Group. His focus is on next generation interconnect technology innovation to meet Cisco’s needs. Mark is also active within the industry standards and forums and has chaired multiple IEEE 802.3 Ethernet projects. He is currently vice-chair of 802.3df/dj (800 & 1600 GbE). He represents Cisco on various industry alliances and Consortium. Mark also chairs or co-chairs a number of industry MSA (Multi-source Agreement) groups focusing on next generation optical module form factors (QSFP-DD, OSFP) and optical interface signaling technology (100G Lambda MSA). Mark earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK.

Subcommittee Chairs

Bob Voss, Panduit

SPE Subcommittee Chair

My role is Distinguished Engineer, Panduit Corporate Research and Development, located at the Jack E. Caveney Innovation Center. My practice areas are Industrial Automation, Building Automation and the Internet of Things. My domain expertise includes 4 decades of control engineering and industrial network architectures. In addition, I am one of the design contributors to Panduit’s LEED Gold World Headquarters automation design. My Panduit responsibilities include technology leadership for strategic alliances and partnerships, futurist activities for Industrial Automation, and executive support research. I represent Panduit before several standards development organizations including, IEEE 802.3, TIA TR42/TR60, IEC and NEMA. I chair the ODVA EtherNet/IP Physical Layer SIG, an engineering subcommittee within ODVA tasked with specifying the ideal physical layer for EtherNet/IP. I also the chair of the Ethernet Alliance SPE subcommittee. Further, I am a contributing member of the Converged Plant wide Ethernet architecture team.

Sam Johnson, Intel

HSN Subcommittee Chair

Sam Johnson is the manager of the Link Applications Engineering team within Intel’s Cloud Networking Group. Sam started at Intel in 2010 with a focus on 10G Ethernet PHY debug and has built a career based on High Speed Serial Ethernet PHY and pluggable media behavior, configuration and interoperability. After working to architect and develop the infrastructure that controls the Ethernet hardware in Intel’s current generation of NCNG products and IP, he went on to build the LAE team to support the link and PHY layer in these same products. The team’s responsibilities now span the NCNG portfolio and range from multi-vendor interoperability testing to electrical conformance testing to delivering customized Ethernet solutions for customers. Sam’s role is focused on defining new features and implementation details for link behavior in current and future NCNG products while supporting debug and interoperability testing.

David Tremblay, HPE

PoE Certification Chair