Dr. Michael Klemm – CEO
Michael holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a Doctor of Engineering degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Michael is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Compilers, Languages, Runtimes & Tools team of the Machine Learning & Software Engineering group at AMD. His areas of interest include compiler construction, design of programming languages, parallel programming, and performance analysis and tuning. Michael joined the OpenMP organization in 2009.
Brian Wauchope, AMD – CFO
Brian is the Chief of Staff, Engineering Business Manager, and Director of Operations & PMO within the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. As the CoS and EBM, Brian directs all aspects of financial attainment, strategic business and growth planning, staffing and continuous improvement. He also directs Operations in North America, China and India as well as the PMO for the Software organization. Previously, Brian was the Director of Engineering Excellence at Johnson Controls and directed Engineering Program Management.
Bronis R. de Supinski – Chair of the Language Committee
Bronis R. de Supinski is the principal investigator and leader of the Exascale Computing Technlogies (ExaCT) project and the co-leader of the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program’s Application Development Environment and Performance Team (ADEPT) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Bronis earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1998 and he joined LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) in July 1998. Currently, his projects include scalable debugging methods, investigations into mechanisms and tools to improve memory performance, applications of data mining techniques to tools for large-scale systems, resiliency techniques, a variety of optimization techniques and tools for MPI and several issues with OpenMP, including its memory model and tool support. He pursues the last set of topics as the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee. Throughout his career, Bronis has won several awards, including the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2005 and 2006.
Matthijs van Waveren – Marketing Coordinator
Matthijs holds a PhD in Computational Physics from the University of Amsterdam. He has been involved with OpenMP since 2000, and was leader of the C/C++ language group in 2002. He contributed to a number of OpenMP features, amongst others the Fortran bindings. He has been OpenMP marketing coordinator since 2012, and is responsible for the press contacts. He also gives OpenMP trainings in Europe and Asia. He has received several SPECtacular awards from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
James Riordon, Out Of Control Inc – Web Services
James is the owner of Out Of Control Inc., bringing over 30 years of expertise in web development, server setup, SysOps and Systems Administration. Since 1994, he has specialized in supporting consortiums, alliances, and non-profits with their internet needs. His extensive experience includes website development, server application installation and ongoing maintenance, and strategic web management to leverage new technologies.
Kathleen Mattson – Marketing Communications Consultant
Kathleen has been in high-tech marketing communications for the last 25+ years, including marketing and technical writing and editing, self-publishing, design, web design and management, general marketing communications, program management, application design, and business development. She works with OpenMP on general marcom and bringing OpenMP to the Supercomputing show.