DMTF Star Award Recipients

DMTF Star Awards acknowledge members who have demonstrated great value to the organization through the dedication of their time and effort to advance DMTF standards and initiatives. These awards serve as a token of our appreciation and gratitude to their continued dedication.

* Indicates this recipient received a Super Star Award.

** Indicates a Continuing Award Winner (designation discontinued after 2018).

2024 Star Award Recipients

  • Steven Bellock - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell Technologies
  • Brett Henning - Broadcom Inc.
  • Wenxing Hou - Intel Corporation
  • Mick Jones - Vertiv
  • Janusz Jurski - Intel Corporation
  • Raghu Krishnamurthy - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Eliel Louzoun - Intel Corporation
  • Divyanand Malavalli - Advanced Micro Devices
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Edward Newman - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Scott Phuong - Microsoft Corporation
  • Xiaoyu Ruan - Intel Corporation
  • Joseph-Jonathan Salzano - HP, Inc.
  • Bill Scherer - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Schoeller - Intel Corporation
  • Karen Strong - StrongPR
  • Jeff Wolford - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Jiewen Yao - Intel Corporation
  • Wilson Young - Solidigm

2023 Star Award Recipients

  • *Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell Technologies
  • Steven Bellock - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Brett Henning - Broadcom Inc.
  • *Yuval Itkin - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Michael “Mick” Jones - Vertiv
  • Raghu Krishnamurthy - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Eliel Louzoun - Intel Corporation
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Chandra Nelogal - Dell Technologies
  • Slawek Putyrski - Intel Corporation
  • *Michael Raineri - Dell Technologies
  • Xiaoyu Ruan - Intel Corporation
  • Wenxing Hou - Intel Corporation
  • Jiewen Yao - Intel Corporation

2022 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell Technologies
  • Derek Chan - Google LLC
  • Brett Henning - Broadcom Inc.
  • Yuval Itkin - NVIDIA Corporation
  • Justin King - IBM
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Scott Phuong - Cisco
  • Xiaoyu Ruan - Intel Corporation
  • Pat Schoeller - Intel Corporation
  • Bob Stevens - Dell Technologies
  • Ed Tanous - Google LLC
  • Jiewen Yao - Intel Corporation

2021 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Kimon Berlin - HP, Inc.
  • Rama Bisa - Dell Technologies
  • Brett Henning - Broadcom Inc.
  • Janusz Jurski - Intel Corporation
  • Robert Keyes - Wold Consulting, LLC.
  • Justin King - IBM
  • Theo Koulouris - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Scott Phuong - Cisco
  • Mike Raineri - Dell Technologies
  • Xiaoyu Ruan - Intel Corporation
  • Jiewen Yao - Intel Corporation

2020 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell Technologies
  • *Patrick Caporale - Lenovo
  • Brett Henning - Broadcom Inc.
  • Justin King - IBM
  • Theo Koulouris - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Gunnar Mills - IBM
  • Scott Phuong - Cisco
  • Mike Raineri - Dell Technologies
  • Xiaoyu Ruan - Intel Corporation
  • Bill Scherer - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Bob Stevens - Dell Technologies
  • Linda Wu - NVIDIA Corporation

2019 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Samer El Haj Mahmoud - ARM, Inc.
  • John Mayfield - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Masoud Manoo - Lenovo
  • Shannon Marsoun - Wold Consulting, LLC
  • Mahesh Natu - Intel Corporation
  • Scott Phuong - Cisco
  • Mike Raineri - Dell, Inc.
  • Nitin Sarangdhar - Intel Corporation
  • Bill Scherer - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Jim Shelton - Vertiv
  • Karen Strong - Strong PR

2018 Star Award Recipients

  • **Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell, Inc.
  • ** Samer El Haj Mahmoud - Lenovo
  • Fumi Iikura - Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
  • Yuval Itkin - Mellanox Technologies
  • Robert Keyes - Wold Consulting
  • Barry Kittner - Intel Corporation
  • Balaji Natrajan - Microchip Technology
  • Scott Phuong - Cisco
  • **Mike Raineri - Dell, Inc.
  • **Bill Scherer - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Pat Schoeller - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Jim Shelton - Vertiv
  • **Bob Stevens - Dell, Inc.

2017 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Samer El Haj Mahmoud - Lenovo
  • *Jon Hass - Dell, Inc.
  • *John Leung - Intel Corporation
  • Mike Raineri - Dell, Inc.
  • Bill Scherer - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Bob Stevens - Dell, Inc.

2016 Star Award Recipients

  • Richelle Ahlvers - Broadcom Limited
  • **Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Cathi Biagi - BrightLeaf
  • Patrick Boyd - Dell Inc.
  • **Patrick Caporale - Lenovo
  • **Mike Pizzo - Microsoft Corporation
  • Michael Raineri - Dell Inc.
  • **Sivakumar Sathappan - AMD
  • *Hemal Shah - Broadcom Limited
  • Tom Slaight - Intel Corporation
  • **Paul Vancil - Dell Inc.

2015 Star Award Recipients

  • Jeff Autor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Patrick Caporale - Lenovo
  • Carl Chan - WS
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Ding Wei - Oracle
  • *Bob Freund - Hitachi
  • Christopher Hoffman - Emerson Network Power
  • **Bhumip Khasnabish - ZTE
  • Na Liu - CESI
  • Mike Pizzo - Microsoft
  • Federico Rossini - Telecom Italia
  • Sivakumar Sathappan - AMD
  • Paul Vancil - Dell
  • **Peter Wörndle - Ericsson

2014 Star Award Recipients

  • Ghazanfar Ali - ZTE Corporation
  • Bhumip Khasnabish - ZTE Corporation
  • Peter Lamanna - EMC
  • Peter Wörndle - Ericsson AB

2013 Star Award Recipients

  • Mark Carlson - Oracle
  • Jacques Durand - Fujitsu
  • Kiichiro Onishi - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • John Parchem - Microsoft
  • Matt Rutkowski - IBM

2012 Star Award Recipients

  • *Mike Baskey - IBM
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Robert Keyes - Wold Consulting
  • *Larry Lamers - VMware
  • Steve Lee - Microsoft
  • Eliel Louzoun - Intel
  • Chris Mayers - Citrix
  • Zhexuan Song - Huawei
  • Satheesh Thomas - American Megatrends, Inc.
  • Perry Vincent - Intel

2011 Star Award Recipients

  • Rodney Brown - IBM
  • Carl Chan - WBEM Solutions
  • Doug Davis - IBM
  • Hiro Kishimoto - Fujitsu
  • Wojtek Kozaczynski - Microsoft
  • Gilbert Pilz - Oracle

2010 Star Award Recipients

  • Steve Carter - Novell
  • Billy Cox - Intel
  • Jaques Durand - Fujitsu
  • Mark Johnson - IBM
  • Kevin Kotyuk - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Kevin Kuelbs - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • John Parchem - Microsoft
  • Krishna Sankar - Cisco

2009 Star Award Recipients

  • Troy Biegger - WBEM Solutions
  • Bob Blair - AMD
  • Rodney Brown - IBM
  • Nathan Burkhart - Microsoft
  • Doug Davis - IBM
  • *George Ericson - EMC
  • Michael Johanssen - IBM
  • Larry Lamers - VMware
  • *Andy Maier - IBM
  • Hemal Shah - Broadcom
  • Mike Walker - IBM

2008 Star Award Recipients

  • Bob Blair - AMD
  • Jerry Chin - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Jim Davis - WBEM Solutions
  • Steffen Grarup - VMware
  • Steve Hand - Symantec
  • *Jeff Hilland - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Rick Landau - Dell
  • Fred Maciel - Hitachi
  • John Parchem - Microsoft
  • Steve Quinn - Hitachi
  • Rene Schmidt - VMware
  • Perry Vincent - Intel
  • Mike Walker - IBM
  • *Kes Wold - Wold Consulting

2007 Star Award Recipients

  • Ron Goering - IBM
  • Daniel Hiltgen - VMware
  • David Hines - Intel
  • Michael Johanssen - IBM
  • Joe Kozlowski - Dell
  • Larry Lamers - VMware
  • Andy Maier - IBM
  • Will Pagán - IBM
  • Hemal Shah - Broadcom
  • Nihar Shah - Microsoft
  • Michelle Sibilla - IRIT, Paul Sabatier University

2006 Star Award Recipients

  • *Winston Bumpus
  • Jerry Chin - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Reddy Dasari - Dell
  • Jon Hass - Dell
  • Jeff Hilland - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Aaron Merkin - IBM
  • Khachatur Papanyan - Dell
  • Enoch Suen - Dell
  • *Jim Turner - Cisco

2005 Star Award Recipients

  • Mark Carlson - Sun
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Jon Hass - Dell
  • Jeff Hilland - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Steve Jerman - Cisco
  • Jeff Lynch - IBM
  • Andy Maier - IBM
  • Aaron Merkin - IBM
  • Ray Pedersen - IBM
  • Paul Von Behren - Sun
  • *Jim Willits - Hewlett-Packard Company

2004 Star Award Recipients

  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Jim Davis - WBEM Solutions
  • George Ericson - EMC
  • Jeff Hilland - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Steve Jerman - Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Jeff Lynch - IBM
  • Jeff Piazza - AppIQ
  • Karl Schopmeyer - Cisco
  • Andrea Westerinen - Cisco

2003 Star Award Recipients

  • Mark Carlson - Sun
  • John Crandall - Brocade
  • Todd Guay - Oracle
  • Mark Kuess - 3Com
  • Tony Orling - VERITAS
  • Julie Schott - Cisco