Richelle Ahlvers


Director of Ecosystem Enabling
Intel

Richelle is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, 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. Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives for many years and is actively engaged with many groups supporting manageability including SNIA, DMTF, NVMe, OFA and UCIe. She is Vice-Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors, Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, leads the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API, and has also served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, to cloud, to green storage. She also serves on the DMTF Board of Directors as the VP of Finance and Treasurer.