Supplier-Member Candidates: Biographies
Steve Blackman
Senior Director of Business Development, Aerospace & Defense, Wind
River Systems
Steve Blackman is Senior Director of Business Development for Wind River’s
Aerospace and Defense business unit. With over 20 years of relevant technology
experience, he is responsible for Wind River’s product strategy,
business development, partnerships, technology innovation and vision
for Wind River’s aerospace and defense efforts. He has been involved
in the Aerospace and Defense community since the days of 2167A.
Blackman joined Wind River in 2001 as marketing director for hardware
assisted tools positioning, driving Wind River’s visionICE and
visionPROBE products to be the undisputed market-share leader in their
class. In 2001, he became director of business development for the Embedded
Technologies business unit, managing strategic relationships with silicon
vendors and major customers and partners.
Prior to joining Wind River, Blackman held sales and marketing positions
at EST (Embedded Support tools), Applied Microsystems, Mentor Graphics,
Interactive Development Environments, Honeywell, and Data General. Blackman
graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Applied and Engineering
Physics from Cornell University and a Masters in Management from Boston
University.
Outside of Wind River, Blackman has many interests, especially spending
time with his wife and three sons.
Personal election statement Bob Fabbio
Chairman and CEO, VIEO Inc.
Bob Fabbio, CEO of VIEO Inc., is a passionate IT visionary and successful
serial entrepreneur.
He has founded and built several industry-leading companies by identifying
large merging IT markets, gaining intimate knowledge of customer problems,
challenging conventional wisdom, and bringing targeted, innovative products
to market. At VIEO, his vision is driving the delivery of the world's first
Intelligent Control System that will redefine the way IT organizations ensure
application service levels support dynamic business demands, enable them
to closely align IT with the business, and dramatically improve data
center economics.
As a part of his entrepreneurial success, Mr. Fabbio is keenly aware
of the importance of standards as a key requirement for the successful
introduction of new products and technologies to the marketplace. To
this end, Mr. Fabbio has always been an active and influential participant
in the formation, governing, and marketing of industry standards initiatives.
In the late 1980’s, he was IBM’s representative in the Open
Software Foundation, worked closely with UNIX System Laboratories, and
was involved in the formation of the POSIX systems management standard
as a member of the founding team. After he founded Tivoli Systems in
1989, Mr. Fabbio remained actively involved with UNIX International’s
Systems Management Working Group (SMWG), OSF’s Distributed Management
Environment (DME) initiative, POSIX, and the ISO network and systems
management standard. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences,
trade shows and executive forums, and is often quoted in the trade and
business press as an expert on data center and application infrastructure
management.
In recognition of his success in building world-class businesses, Mr.
Fabbio was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
in 1997 and has subsequently served as a judge of the E&Y awards.
Fabbio received a B.A. in Chemistry and Computer Science from SUNY at
Potsdam and a M.S. in Computer Science and Technology from the Rochester
Institute of Technology.
Personal election statement Chris Greenslade
Executive Director and Chairman of the Board, Architecting the Enterprise
After 25 years in the IT business, my association with The Open Group
began in 1991 as a consultant to OSF. That association continued as EMEA
Manager of The Open Group Professional Services Department and subsequently
as a Director of Member Companies. Much of my business since that time
has resulted from that association. I soon realized that the objectives
and mission of The Open Group were something with which I easily sympathized.
In fact since then my own mission statement has been "to encourage
the worldwide use of The Open Group's open system standards, methods
and techniques, by providing vendor-independent consultancy and educational
support services."
In return, wherever possible, I have tried to contribute back to The
Open Group. That is why I took on the Chair of the Architecture Forum
and why I have contributed to all but one of the Member’s Meetings
in the last four years.
Personal election statement David Kleidermacher
Vice President of Engineering, Green Hills Software
David Kleidermacher is Vice President of Engineering at Green Hills
Software where he has been designing compilers, software development
environments, and operating systems for the past thirteen years.
Personal election statement Inder Singh
CEO & President, LynuxWorks
Dr. Inder M. Singh is the CEO, President and Chairman of LynuxWorks.
He founded Excelan, an early leader in local area networks in 1982 and
served as its chairman, CEO and president. Excelan later merged with
Novell. Dr. Singh was a co-founder of Ethernet switching technology pioneer
Kalpana, one of Cisco's early acquisitions. He has also served as director
of several high technology companies and non-profit organizations. Dr.
Singh is Chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium. He holds Ph.D. and
M.Phil. degrees in computer science from Yale University, and B.Tech.
from Indian Institute of Technology of Kharagpur, India.
Personal election statement
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