SNIA Storage Management Community Elects Governing Board for 2025

The SNIA Storage Management community (SM) is pleased to announce the election of its 2025 Governing Board.

The leadership team is composed of industry experts and will continue to guide Storage Management’s mission to foster the creation of implementable, deployable and verifiable end-user storage management solutions, based on industry and SNIA standards, that can be adopted across the storage industry.

The 2025 SM Governing Board is:

Officers:

• Chair: Richelle Ahlvers, Director, Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives, Intel Corporation
• Vice Chair: Chris Lionetti, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Elected Directors:

• Krishnakumar Gowravaram, Senior Principal Engineer, Celestica
• Prashanth Chennagiri, Cisco Systems

Directors At-Large:

• Barry Kittner
• Don Deel

“I’m happy to continue to lead the SNIA Storage Management Community in 2025 and work alongside such a dedicated and talented board,” said Richelle Ahlvers, SNIA Storage Management Chair. “In 2025, we are committed to accelerating the development, adoption and continued deployment of SNIA Swordfish technology, expanding the use of the SM Lab interoperability environment for storage standards and supporting the Swordfish Technical Work Group (TWG.)“

The following organizations are members of the SNIA Storage Management community:

 
For more information on SNIA membership, click here or email membership@snia.org.

About SNIA Storage Management
SNIA Storage Management community (SM) develops and standardizes interoperable storage management technologies and promotes them to the storage, networking and end-user communities. SM drives SNIA activities in technology development, conformance testing of products, and provides education for both vendors and the IT community.