The SNIA Announces its 2007 Board of Directors

Business Wire, Oct 30, 2006

ORLANDO, Fla. -- in the listing of the Board of Directors, James Geronaitis should be associated with Permabit (sted CA).

The corrected release reads:

THE SNIA ANNOUNCES ITS 2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2007 Board of Directors responsible for the SNIA worldwide. The SNIA's membership elected the Board of Directors at the beginning of October, and the Board elected their Executive Committee officers today at this fall's Storage Networking World conference being held in Orlando, Florida.

"In pursuing our mission to advance the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions, our board of directors and the SNIA as a whole made strong progress over the last year. In 2007 the board will remain focused on pursuing activities for our association's strategic initiatives such as standards development, educational offerings, industry alliances and increasing storage industry awareness. The SNIA will continue exploring new avenues to empower IT users to manage enterprise information. Our close collaboration with the SNIA End User Council and SNIA affiliates around the world to ensure global growth will be key to our success in the year to come," said Vincent Franceschini, chairman of the board of the SNIA.

The 2006 SNIA Board of Directors and their roles are:

Executive Committee:

* Vincent Franceschini (Hitachi Data Systems), Chairman

* Matthew Brisse (Dell), Vice Chairman

* Phillip Mills (IBM), Secretary

* Wayne M. Adams (EMC), Treasurer

Board of Directors

* Brad Bickford (Intel), Member

* David Dale (Network Appliance), Member

* Ray Dunn (Sun Microsystems), Member

* James Geronaitis (Permabit), Member

* Robin Glasgow (SNIA), non-voting Member & Executive Director

* Tom Hammond-Doel (Emulex), Member

* Norio Hasegawa (HP), Member

* Skip Jones (QLogic), Member

* Julie Ryan (LSI Logic), Member

* Dave Thiel (HP), non-voting Member & Chairman of the Technical Council

* SW Worth (Microsoft), Member

The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the association's vision and mission and ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies. Board members address issues such as strategic planning, membership development, marketing and public relations, technical output, operational planning and providing oversight and leadership of the SNIA's many technical forums, committees and work groups.

Please visit www.snia.org for additional information on each director.

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of more than 460 member companies and close to 7,000 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org.