PCI-SIG Board of Directors Profiles

Michael Diamond

Michael Diamond is Director of Strategic Marketing at NVIDIA.  He was Vice President of Operations for Intensys, a Graphics Processor company, before joining NVIDIA in 2001. Mr. Diamond serves on the Board of Directors for the PCI-SIG and the PC Gaming Alliance.  He develops complex alliances and partnerships with large, multi-national companies.  His business strategies and inventions are changing the PC landscape, authoring patents in areas such as Optimus, ION, CUDA, SLI, Hybrid, Quadro Plex, MXM, PCI Express, GPU Architecture, Semiconductor Design-Manufacturing-Power Optimizations, Virtualization and Content Protection.  Mr. Diamond holds a B.S.E. degree from California State University Northridge, an M.S.M.E. and M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, and attended Executive Management programs at Caltech and MIT-Sloan.

Rick Eads

Rick Eads is a senior product manager with expertise in technical/industrial marketing of test and measurement tools and electronic design automation software to leaders in the computer, semi-conductor, wired and wireless communications, storage and aerospace industries worldwide. Rick works on precision product definition and synthesis of breakthrough solutions that address new and emerging needs for both software and hardware products. He provides technical leadership in driving standards within industry organizations for PCI Express, ExpressCard, FB-DIMM (FBD), DDR, HyperTransport, ExpressCard, SATA, and InfiniBand. He has worked in marketing test and measurement products covering oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, microprocessor emulation solutions, ASIC emulation tools, EDA tools. Rick earned a M.B.A. from the University of Colorado with an emphasis on finance and marketing, and he graduated with a BSEE from Brigham Young University with an emphasis on digital design and computer architecture. He holds three patents and has published numerous papers and technical articles.

Michael Krause

Michael Krause is a member of the PCI-SIG Board of Directors, and participates in multiple PCI-SIG technical workgroups. Michael Krause joined Hewlett-Packard in 1985 where he is currently a HP Fellow Engineer focused on local and fabric I/O and IPC technology development and strategy. He also acts as the HP technical lead for PCI Express as well as a co-author of the PCI Express specifications.

Ramin Neshati

Ramin Neshati is a member of the PCI-SIG Board of Directors and the Treasurer of the PCI-SIG. He chairs the PCI-SIG Serial Communications Workgroup, which is responsible for coordinating industry enabling efforts for the adoption of PCI Express architecture by PCI-SIG members worldwide. Ramin is also managing the definition and delivery of the PCI Express 2.0 (5G) specifications through the PCI Express Electrical and Electromechanical workgroups. Additionally, Ramin acts as the liaison with peer industry organizations such as the PCMCIA, ASI-SIG, PICMG, etc.
 

Ramin holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and the M.B.A., and works at Intel Corporation as a manager of technology development.

Tony Pierce

Tony Pierce has served on the PCI-SIG Board of Directors since early 2000. In addition to his position on the board, Pierce has been an active member of the PCI Express workgroup.

Wesley Shao

Wesley Shao is an IO architect with Oracle and contributes to its IO chipset architecture and the Solaris Operating System. He had previously been with Sun Microsystems Inc for over 13 years before being acquired by Oracle. He currently leads the group that delivers PCI Express and IO Virtualization software to Solaris. He participates in several PCI-SIG technical workgroups.

Richard Solomon

Richard Solomon serves as Vice-President of the PCI-SIG. He is the architect of the PCI-X and PCIe interface cores used in LSI's storage controller chips and represents LSI on a wide variety of PCI Workgroups. Richard holds a B.S.E.E. from Rice University and 17 US Patents, of which 9 relate to PCI technology.

Al Yanes

Al Yanes has served as president of the PCI-SIG since 2003 and chairman since 2006 and is a Distinguished Engineer for IBM in the Systems & Technology Division. He has 26 years of experience working with ASIC design in the I/O industry. Yanes holds 25 patents for PCI and other I/O technologies.

Yanes is a PCIe technology expert for the IBM Rochester office and he is involved in IO design for IBM's Server products.

Yanes holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.