
Venkatesh Ramamurthy

Dharmesh Jani

Vaishali Ghiya
Vaishali Ghiya has 27+ years of experience in Networking, Cloud and Security Sales, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering capacities, transforming 200+ people team. She is recognized as Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco.

Jonmichael Hands
Jonmichael (JM) is a storage and AI expert, and sustainability leader. JM is currently the CEO of FarmGPU, an AI infrastructure company which hosts a decentralized cloud for AI on-demand compute and storage - and also partnering with Solidigm for the innovative AI central storage lab.
Jonmichael spent ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. Jonmichael is the president of the Circular Drive Initiative, 501(c)(6) non-profit, promoting the secure reuse of drives and circular business models for the storage industry. Jonmichael started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.

James Kelly
James joined the OCP Foundation staff in 2024 as VP Market Intelligence and Innovation, working with technology leaders in the community and augmenting the foundation’s directional strategy, innovation efforts and marketing. His contributions to the OCP proceed from over two decades of experience in technology research, engineering, product management and marketing.