Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware, has had over 40 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the DMTF and previously served as its president for over 15 years. He is also  co-chair of the Cloud Management Working Group within the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMware he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for nearly 20 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards.

Jeff Hilland is a Senior Systems Architect in the Enterprise Storage & Servers Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Jeff served as VP of Technology for the DMTF for 6 years before being appointed President of the DMTF. Jeff has served in various leadership roles in the DMTF since 2003, including co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Group. Jeff has spent the last 15 years driving industry standards and has served in chairing roles in both the RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association.

Jeff's 30-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, management protocols, data modeling, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and performance analysis. It has also included significant contributions to high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including RDMA, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.

Shishir Pardikar is a Lead Architect  in Citrix Systems Inc. responsible for standards and technology strategy.  He comes to Citrix via XenSource, the makers of Xen hypervisor and virtualization platform.  He has been involved in DMTF standardization work in Virtualization area since 2006.  Of his twenty five plus years in the Computer industry Shishir has spent a major portion of his career at Microsoft in Redmond, WA.  He has worked in various capacities in Microsoft leading product development in--among other things--distributed file systems, persistent caching, Internet infrastructure and pen computing.  He has also been a computer graphics hardware and software designer while in India.  Shishir has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.

Hemal Shah is a Systems Architect in the Infrastructure and Networking Group of Broadcom Corporation where he has been instrumental in architecting numerous key manageability, networking, virtualization, cloud, and security features in several generations of NetXtreme I and NetXtreme II Ethernet controller products for both client and server platforms. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation in 2005, Hemal worked at Intel Corporation where he led the development of system/silicon/software architecture of communication processors, 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers, and offload technologies for TCP, iSCSI, RDMA, and cryptographic algorithms.

In the DMTF, Hemal has served in various leadership roles including chair of Platform Management Sub-Committee, co-chair of Server Desktop Mobile Platforms (SDMP), Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI), and Security Working Groups. Hemal has been a critical driving force behind the development of numerous DMTF standards related to system management (DASH, SMASH, and PMCI), virtualization management, cloud management, Open Virtualization Format (OVF), network port profiles, and Web Services for Management (WS-Management). Hemal has co-authored 60+ DMTF specifications, three IETF RFCs, and 10 plus technical conference/journal papers. Hemal is a named inventor on 18 patents with 26 pending patents. Hemal holds Ph. D. (computer engineering) and M.S. (computer science) degrees from Purdue University, M.S.E.E. degree from The University of Arizona, and B.S. (electronics and communication engineering) from Gujarat University, India.

Mark A. Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. Mark was one of the authors of the CDMI Cloud Storage standard. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is the chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage, NDMP and XAM SDK technical working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Oracle on the DMTF Technical Committee and serves as DMTF VP of Alliances.