The SATA-IO Board of Directors currently consists of up to nine representatives, as specified by SATA bylaws. Board member duties include establishing policies and procedures and overseeing the activities of each Work Group. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors are held once monthly.
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Eugene Sushansky is Vice President of Global Engineering at Granite River Labs Inc. (GRL). He has been in the industry for over 27 years, 10 of that at GRL, where he focuses in leading testing services for various High Speed interconnects. Prior to joining GRL, Eugene has worked for OSZ Storage Solutions Inc. (Kioxia), and PLX Technology Inc. (Broadcom). He provides technical leadership in many industry standards including SATA and PCI Express. Eugene earned BSEE from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on digital design and computer architecture.
Abdul (Rahman) Ismail is a distinguished technology leader with over three decades of experience in the development of IO standards. As a Sr Principal Engineer at Intel, he has been instrumental in shaping the evolution of USB technology. Throughout his career, Rahman has played a pivotal role in the creation and advancement of key standards’ specifications. His contributions have been instrumental in shaping the modern landscape of universal connectivity, enabling faster data transfer speeds, improved power delivery, and enhanced device compatibility across a wide range of electronic products. Rahman has over 30 patents that have been granted with several more in the pipeline. Rahman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from NITK (Surathkal).
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Kayla Seliner is the Senior Lead Compliance Engineer at Novus Labs, a SATA‑IO Independent Test Lab (ITL). Since 2012, she has provided hands-on testing and technical expertise for several standards, including USB and SATA. Over the course of her career, she has tested, debugged, and certified countless SATA devices and hosts, bringing extensive technical knowledge and the ability to apply industry standards effectively across projects. Her work has helped ensure product quality, reliability, and seamless integration across the industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Portland State University.
Curtis Stevens (Strategist, Seagate Technology) has been working in the storage industry for over 35 years with experience in host side drivers, HBA design, Hard disk drives, SSD’s, SAS/SATA/USB/1394/etc. Curtis is the technical editor for standards and specifications in INCITS T10, INCITS T13, SATA-IO, USB-IF, NVMe, and others. Curtis has helped invent and standardize technologies in the areas of Bootable CD-ROM, PATA-SATA bridges, USB Printers, USB Mass Storage, translating SAS to SATA, 4K/512e sector sizes, NVMe Zoned Name Spaces, and most recently, Drive Regeneration/depopulation & Translating SAS to NVMe.
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Ralph Weber learned computer technology on his mother's knee, literally, spending many a teenager's Saturday mousing around the behemoths while she debugged Fortran programs. His first significant program drove a Cal*Comp plotter to draw script-style lettering and was completed before high-school graduation in 1969. This was followed by a bachelors degree from Texas A&M and seven additional years writing Fortran for TAMU physicists at the Cyclotron Institute.
Between 1981 and 1997, he developed peripheral interface protocol standards. He first discovered this calling as the storage standards rep for VAXclusters in Digital’s VMS operating system development group. When not haggling over standardeze, he wrote device drivers for VMS, including the first SCSI Port Driver not coded in assembly language.
He was a consultant between 1997 and 2014, and a Technologist thereafter, specializing is standards development, mostly for Western Digital Corp.