Richelle Ahlvers of Intel Corporation has been appointed to serve as the new DMTF Vice President of Finance. Richelle will play an important role in the organization as it continues its commitment to its members.

Richelle is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. She 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.

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 group’s inception; she is the alliance liaison between SNIA and DMTF, as well as the alliance liaison for OpenFabrics Alliance, Open Compute Project Foundation, and the SODA Foundation.

Please join DMTF in welcoming Richelle to the Board of Directors! We would also like to thank Selva Subbiah of Dell Technologies (outgoing) for his dedication and efforts in supporting the organization for the past seven years.