Ethernet Alliance Board of Directors

Brad Booth, Chair

Brad Booth is a Senior Principal Engineer for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC). He is Chairman of the Board for the Ethernet Alliance and serves as co-chair for the Ethernet Alliance University Program. Brad also serves as treasurer for the IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working Group. Previously, he has worked for Quake Technologies, Intel, Level One Communications, Jato Technologies, PMC-Sierra and Bell-Northern Research. He served as a Director and as the VP of Technology for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA). Brad was the Chair of IEEE Std. 802.3an™-2006 and prior to that, he was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Std. 802.3ae™-2002. In 2003, Brad received recognition as a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Thomas Scheibe, Treasurer

Thomas Scheibe is a Director Product Management in Cisco's Datacenter, Switching, and Services Group. During his 10+ years at Cisco he worked with customers in the commercial, enterprise, and Service Provider space. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company advising clients in the transportation, automotive and energy industry. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

David Law

David Law is a Consultant Engineer at 3Com where he has worked on the specification and development of Ethernet products since 1989. Throughout that time he has been a member of the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD (Ethernet) Working and has served as the Vice-Chair since 1996. In 2004 he was appointed to the IEEE-SA Standards Board review committee (RevCom) and in 2005 was also appointed to the IEEE-SA Standards Board as well as the IEEE-SA Standards Board patent committee (PatCom).
In 2000 he received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for 'leadership and technical contributions to Ethernet networking standards'.

Yong Kim

Yong Kim has been a long time IEEE 802 contributor, starting in 1985 with Ethernet/802.3 10 Mbps Coax and repeater standards to current 10G, as well as involvements in 802.4 Token Bus, 802.5 Token Ring, 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring, 802.11 Wireless LAN and of course 802.1 Bridging standards. Yong is a Technical Director at Broadcom Networking Infrastructure and had various executive technical positions at Allayer Communication, LANart, Chipcom and engineering positions at Apollo Computers and Raytheon.

Stephen M. Garrison

Stephen Garrison has more than 19 years of experience designing strategic marketing programs for the telecommunications and networking industries. Prior to becoming vice president of marketing, Garrison directed the company’s corporate marketing and customer activities. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Garrison was the senior director of marketing at Riverstone Networks, where he was responsible for building customer programs. Earlier, he served as the director of marketing at Cabletron Systems. Garrison received a B.S. in ceramic science from Alfred University and an M.S. in materials science and engineering from MIT. He also holds four patents and sits on the board of directors for the Ethernet Alliance.

Robert Hays

Robert Hays is Strategic Planning Director for the LAN Access Division at Intel Corporation. Rob has been with Intel for over 10 years in various technical and business roles delivering innovative Ethernet products for client PCs and servers. Rob is also a Director of the Ethernet Alliance and an active contributor to IEEE 802.3 standards. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Dan Dove

Dan Dove is a Principal Engineer for LAN Physical Layer Devices at ProCurve Networking by HP. His career includes over 25 years in the ProCurve business unit, starting out as a production assembler and working his way through various manufacturing and design positions. He has worked in design since 1988 and is currently responsible for ProCurve's PHY strategy, PoE System Architecture, and IEEE 802.3 Standards Representation. Dan has been an active member of the IEEE 802.3 working group since 1992 and chaired the 802.3ak task force for 10GBASE-CX4.

Dilip Modi

Dilip Modi is currently Marketing Team Lead at Sun Microsystems for the Networking and Security product line. Prior to Sun he had several responsibilities in inbound and outbound marketing in Networking Startups, Lucent Broadband Wireless and Hewlett-Packard. Dilip graduated from IIT Bombay and received his Masters Degree in Engineering and MBA from UC Berkeley.

Ethernet Alliance Officers of the Board

Harpreet Chadha, VP of Technology

Harpreet Chadha is Senior Director of product management at Extreme Networks, where he oversees product development of scalable Ethernet switching solutions that help enterprises and carriers build intelligent, cost-effective networks. Prior to Extreme Networks, Chadha was senior principal engineer and product manager at CoSine Communications, where he built and marketed an IP Switch that featured unprecedented scale of virtual routers, firewalls and encryption services.
Prior to CoSine, he was a senior developer and architect for network planning tools at Make Systems (later acquired by OPNET) and storage systems at Alphatronix Inc (later acquired by Auspex). Chadha graduated from IIT Roorkee, India, and holds a Masters Degree and Doctorate from North Carolina State University.

Blaine Kohl, VP Marketing

Ms. Kohl is the VP of Marketing for the Ethernet Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium she helped found; consults for a variety of hardware and software companies, and sits on the advisory board of 4Blox, a software iSCSI company. Ms. Kohl has held multiple marketing and sales executive management positions: VP of Marketing and Sales at Tehuti Networks, an Israeli 10 Gigabit Ethernet start-up; VP of Marketing at Bandspeed, an IEEE 802.11 start-up; and Director of Marketing at Intel's LAN Access Division (LAD) where she managed the development and launch of the industry's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs and iSCSI HBAs as well as directed seed investments, participated in M&A decisions, and was instrumental in many critical partnerships. Ms. Kohl came into Intel via the acquisition of Level One Communications, which had acquired Jato Technologies, a 1 Gigabit Ethernet start-up. Prior to Jato Technologies, Ms. Kohl worked for Motorola. Ms. Kohl holds a bachelor's degree in Communications (University of Texas - Austin) and MBA from Texas State University.

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