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Leadership Members
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President and CEO
Dr. Craig Lee
was named President/CEO of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) in October 2007. He is a Senior Scientist in the Computer Systems Research Department of The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit, federally funded, research and development center. At the Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Lee advises civil, commercial and governmental agencies on all issues relating to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and is responsible for the transfer of maturing technologies into new application domains. This work has led naturally to Dr. Lee's involvement in the Open Grid Forum where he was a working group chair and an area director prior to becoming president.
Lee has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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Vice President of Standards
Chris Smith
is a Principal Product Architect at Platform Computing. Since
1997, as an employee of Platform, he has been involved in the development
of the Platform LSF suite of workload management products, with a focus
on the integration of Platform's Grid middleware into production Grid
solutions within High Performance Technical Computing disciplines. As an
active member of the Open Grid Forum, he has contributed to and authored
a number of specifications concerned with Grid workload management. Previous
to Platform, he was a system administrator at the University of British
Columbia's Computer Science department, where he also received his degree.
Vice President of Enterprise
Ian Osborne
Ian Osborne is project director for Intellect, the UK trade association
for the IT, telecoms and electronics industries, and is also Director of
the UK's Grid Computing Now! Knowledge Transfer Network. Ian has worked
in ICT since 1972. He trained as a Computer Programmer before stints
with British Airways and International Computers Limited. In 1979, Ian
joined the Hewlett-Packard Company where he enjoyed a substantial career
working in Research & Development, Quality and Marketing at HP locations
in the US and UK. He held senior management positions in HP's European
Research Laboratories and Telecom Systems Business.
Ian has a Masters Degree in the Management of Technology, a joint degree
awarded by the Universities of Sussex and Brighton in 1992. He is a Member of
the British Computer Society and a Chartered Information Technology
Professional, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and an
Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Vice President of E-Science
Geoffrey Charles Fox
received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Computer Science, Informatics, and Physics at Indiana University. He is director of the Community Grids Laboratory of the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has published over 550 papers in physics and computer science and been a major author on four books. Fox has worked in a variety of applied computer science fields with his work on computational physics evolving into contributions to parallel computing and now to Grid systems. He is chief technology officer of Anabas Inc. which develops Grid technology for Net Centric Systems.
Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific (including Japan)
Toshihiro Suzuki
is currently Senior Director, Standards Strategy and Architecture for Oracle Corporation Japan, overseeing Oracle's standardization activities in Japan. He participates in various industry consortia and standards setting organizations including Web Services and Accessibility groups within Japan and ISO/IEC JTC1. Mr. Suzuki served as the chairperson of the EGA (Enterprise Grid Alliance) Japan regional steering committee to organize and evangelize the alliance in Japan. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Suzuki worked for IBM. Beginning his career in 1985 at IBM Japan's Yamato Laboratory as a developer on projects dealing with operating systems, character input methods, and distributed object technologies; he also worked in planning, standardization, and technology consulting roles and contributed to a variety of projects including: Operating System/2, Common User Access (CUA), Unicode, Taligent, OpenDoc, and Java-based software agent platform. Mr. Suzuki received a Masters degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology where he also completed doctoral course work in BioEngineering; his advanced studies focused on theorization of information for receivers in autonomous systems under disequilibrium dynamics.
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