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</nav> <main id="main-content"> <div class="boundary"> <div id="content" class="content-center"> <h1 class="page-title">DMTF Executive Biographies</h1> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-267" class="node node-page clearfix" about="/about/officers/bios" typeof="foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="DMTF Executive Biographies" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h2 id="raineri" style="margin:0">Mike Raineri</h2> <h4>Chair of the Board</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Mike Raineri is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Dell Technologies, where he is a technical leader for enclosure management solutions for storage appliances within the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group.</p> <p>Mike has been working in the storage industry since 2007 as part of EMC, and now Dell EMC. He has been involved in the architecture and the development of hardware diagnostic test suites, UEFI applications, and BMC firmware. These roles have allowed him to collaborate over a large spectrum of consumers, from the lowest level manufacturing processes to end users.</p> <p>Mike has been actively involved with DMTF since 2015. He was elected as the co-chair of the Redfish Forum in 2017 assisting with the ongoing development and adoption of the Redfish standard.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/mike_raineri_2.jpg" style="float:right; height:150; width:110px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="bagwell" style="margin:0">Gene Bagwell</h2> <h4>Vice-Chair of the Board</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Gene is a Verizon Distinguished Fellow in the Technology, Strategy, Architecture and Planning group. He works closely with Verizon's third party vendors, planning, product development, and the open-source community to define architecture and strategy for Verizon Cloud Platforms (VCP) a private Telco cloud that implements Verizon 4G and 5G infrastructure.</p> <p>He specializes in large scale system design and operation, system performance, and troubleshooting. He is active in the CNCF scheduler and networking workgroups, and is a member of the DMTF board of directors.</p> <p>Gene resides in Southlake, TX., with his wife Jane and enjoys world travel and photography.</p></td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Gene_Bagwell_2025.jpg" style="float:right; height:150; width:110px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="hilland" style="margin:0">Jeff Hilland</h2> <h4>President</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Jeff Hilland is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs (HPE) working on infrastructure architecture with a focus on management and security. Jeff served as VP of Technology for DMTF for 6 years before being appointed President of DMTF. Jeff has served in various leadership roles in DMTF since 2003, including chair of the Executive Committee, Technical Committee, Platform Subcommittee and co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Groups. Jeff is one of the chief architects behind Redfish and contributed significantly to SMASH & DASH. Jeff also co-chairs the SPDM Working Group. Jeff has spent the last 2 years driving industry standards and has also served in chairing roles in the Gen-Z Consortium, RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association.</p> <p>Jeff's 40-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, management protocols, data modeling, security, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and performance analysis. It has also included contributions to high-speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization RDMA, CXL, UEC, Gen-Z, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Jeff_Hilland_Headshot_2020.jpeg" style="float:right; height:150px; width:107px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="rahlvers" style="margin:0">Richelle Ahlvers</h2> <h4>Vice President of Alliances</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Richelle Ahlvers is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies.</p> <p>Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, enabling new technology ecosystems, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array software, storage management software user experience projects including mobility, developing new storage industry categories including SAN management, storage grid and cloud, and storage technology portfolio solutions.</p> <p>Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years. She has served as the DMTF Redfish Forum’s Treasurer, and she serves on the SNIA Board of Directors, the Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, and has led the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API from the groups inception; she is the alliance liaison between SNIA and DMTF, as well as the alliance liaison for OFA, OCP, and the SODA Foundation.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/richelle.jpg" style="float:right; height:106px; width:110px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="bscherer" style="margin:0">Bill Scherer</h2> <h4>Vice President of Finance/Treasurer</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Bill Scherer is a Principal Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise specializing in manageability technologies and networking technologies. Bill has been working with DMTF in both the PMCI Working Group and the Redfish Forum since 2017. In that time, he has been a primary author for 12 specifications and whitepapers, and is listed as a contributor on many more. He is the primary architect behind RDE, the Redfish Device Enablement specification that allows Redfish to extend to embedded devices.</p> <p>Before joining HPE, Bill was a research scientist at Rice University, investigating parallel programming extensions to the Fortran programming language. He received an MS and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, and a BA from Carleton College. Bill has published over a dozen papers in top-tier conferences on various topics in synchronization and concurrency.</p></td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Bill_Scherer_2025.JPG" style="float:right; height:106px; width:110px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="shah" style="margin:0">Hemal Shah</h2> <h4>Sr. Vice President of Technology</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>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.</p> <p>In 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.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/hemal.jpg" style="float:right" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="tavares" style="margin:0">Fernando Tavares</h2> <h4>Vice President of Membership</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Fernando Tavares is an Engineering Specialist within Product Development Engineering Group at Positivo Tecnologia, where he promotes and drives product and system certifications.</p> <p>He has over 15 years of experience within technology industry at Bosch, PACCAR, Volvo, Michelin and Positivo Tecnologia.</p> <p>During his career, he has been responsible for various projects related to product and system certifications, system implementation and new product developments.</p> <p>He has been an active member of DMTF since 2019 and participates in activities throughout the organization. Fernando holds a Master’s degree in Quality Management from Estacio University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Parana Tuiuti University.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/fernando_2023.jpg" style="float:right; height:110px; width:110px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="pcaporale" style="margin:0">Patrick Caporale</h2> <h4>Vice President of Marketing</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Patrick Caporale is a Distinguished Engineer & Chief I/O Architect within the Data Center Group of Lenovo. He has over 20 years of experience within the server, storage, and networking product groups at Lenovo and IBM. During his career, he has been responsible for various projects that delivered storage & networking I/O solutions for the data center, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Infiniband products. Patrick is the chief technical architect across Lenovo’s server platforms for I/O and leads a team of engineers to deliver the latest generation of data center products. He has been an active member of DMTF since 2013 and participates in activities throughout the organization. Patrick is currently the Co-Chair of the Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI) Working Group. He has been the editor and contributor to many specifications released by the PMCI workgroup. Patrick holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.</p> </td> <td> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/patrick_caporale_new.jpg" style="float:right; height:136px; width:109px" /></td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 id="cjose" style="margin:0">Cyril Jose</h2> <h4>Assistant VP of Finance</h4> <table><tbody><tr><td> <p>Cyril Jose is an engineering manager at Dell Technologies, where he currently leads a firmware engineering team contributing to functional ecosystems for the PowerEdge system management controller firmware stack.</p> <p>Cyril has been working in the computer server industry since 2010 as part of the Dell server firmware organization. He has been involved in the architecture and development of various firmware applications and diagnostic tools including the PowerEdge server Redfish Telemetry implementation. Cyril has deep interests in designing and building reliable and secure firmware products and solutions.</p> <p>Cyril has been engaged with industry standards initiatives at DMTF from 2018. He has served as the DMTF Redfish Forum’s Treasurer. Cyril is a named inventor on 26 granted patents. Cyril holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Texas at Austin and bachelor’s degree in computer science from Govt. 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