Drew Walton started Fault Management work 24 years ago when leading development of RAS solutions for HPE’s first Superdome scale-up servers.  He worked across ASIC, firmware, architecture and OS teams to minimize the impact of hardware failures.  Drew then went to Google in 2016 where he started their Fault Management team and became engaged in OCP. Drew proposed an overall fault management solution and helped found the RAD API and Fleet Memory Fault Management teams. Drew is currently taking the month of June off and starting his next fault management role in July.

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Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Data Center and AI Product Management, Intel Corporation

Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI (DCAI) Product Management Group. DCAI Product Management is responsible for end-to-end stewardship of DCAI’s systems, SW, CPU, GPU, and custom product line through the entirety of the product lifecycle.  Prior to his product management role, Ball was CVP and GM of platform engineering and architecture for Intel’s data center business.  Ball has also served as Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group and VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.

Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University.  He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.