Editing Governance/ProjectLeadElectionsJan2014 (section)

=== C&I ===

==== Matt Gambardella - Stealth Startup ====

Matt Gambardella is the Founder/CTO of a stealth mode startup based in Seattle.  Matt has spent the last 18 years working at companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Rackable Systems, ZT Systems, and Nebula designing software and hardware solutions to solve the problems of scale datacenter management.  Nearly 10 years of his career was focused on the quality assurance of hardware and software systems and has extensive experience in working with vendors in diverse companies to implement quality standards.  

Matt is presently the chairperson for the Server (Formerly Motherboard) working group where he has worked extensively with members of the Open Compute Community to shepard IP into the Foundation as well as run many engineering summits for the working group.  Matt is very interested in translating his successful experiences with the Server working group into the Conformance & Interoperability group.
Matt holds a BS in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


==== YF Juan - ITRI ====
YF Juan represents OCP Taiwan, is the primary external interface for the ITRI OCP Certification Testing Lab, and (during his spare time) is a deputy director of global strategy and business development at ITRI, a 40 years old 6,000 people non-profit R&D Center based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.



==== DaWane Wanek - Avnet ====
(With Matthew Liste as co-lead)

DaWane Wanek co-chairs the Conformance & Interoperability subcommittee for the Open Compute Project and is also the Director of Data Center Infrastructure and Open Compute Solutions for Avnet's, Rorke Global Solution’s group. DaWane has over 25 years of technical sales leadership experience, building sales/pre-sales organizations and solving customer problems. Prior to Avnet, DaWane was the VP WW Sales & Solutions for NextIO, driving the forefront of I/O Virtualization and GPU computing solutions.  Prior to NextIO, DaWane was a Director in the Advanced Systems Group at Dell, responsible for over $500 million in enterprise revenue for a subset of Dell's commercial and Federal customers. Prior to Dell, DaWane held executive positions with RLX Technologies (acquired by HP) and Scalable Software, as well as various sales and sales management roles with BMC Software and Data General Corporation.