Board of Directors

Rick Martinez serves as Dell Fellow and Vice President for Security within the Client Solutions Group at Dell Technologies. Rick’s responsibilities include developing security strategy for Dell PCs focused on trusted and resilient platforms. In addition to his role as a strategist and people manager, he is a trusted advisor in the areas of secure development, governance and execution for Dell PCs and pan-Dell secure supply chain efforts.

Mr. Martinez joined Dell in 1997 and spent nearly two decades contributing to the security strategy and architecture for Dell BIOS and firmware, implementing many built-in platform security features including Signed Firmware Update (NIST 800-147), TPM and Secure Boot, and SafeBIOS off-host verification. Since then, he’s continued to build comprehensive long-term strategies to help keep Dell PCs and customers secure

Currently, Mr. Martinez is active in the evolution of the Dell Technical Leadership Community and serves as Vice President of the Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors representing Dell. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a proud father of three daughters, a semi-retired autocrosser, and a lifelong skateboarder.

 Advanced Micro Devices

Dr Gongyuan Zhuang is a security architect/strategist of AMD Product Security Office. Gongyuan have joined AMD since 2006, worked for security strategy, Security architecture research and development, and represented AMD in various security standard organizations.

Before joining AMD, Gongyuan worked at Intel to develop cryptographic middleware and security device driver for Intel embedded platforms.

Gongyuan obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 2000.

Josef Kohn is a Director for Marketing at Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
He joined Infineon’s Chipcard and Security division in 2002 in Germany and held various leadership positions focused on the business development of Trusted Platform Modules and Trusted Computing Technologies into computing and embedded security applications.

Josef holds an engineering degree from the University of Ulm/GER in electronics and biomedical engineering. After starting his professional career at Siemens Medical Solutions in 1992 and after initially joining Infineon Technologies in Munich, he relocated to the Infineon Americas Corp. in San Jose, CA in 2006.

Ron Perez is an Intel Fellow and Chief Security Architect in the Office of the CTO at Intel. He is responsible for overall Intel security architecture and cross-business unit security technology roadmap alignment, with a focus on Confidential Computing and platform security for the disaggregated, heterogeneous, and distributed data center. He leads a team of senior technology leaders driving Intel’s foundational security technologies for server platforms and roots-of-trust, supply chain and life cycle integrity, and trusted execution environments in collaboration with Intel Labs and world-wide strategy, planning, engineering, design, and validation teams. An industry veteran, Ron joined Intel in 2017 with a breadth of experience spanning security, semiconductors, and cloud computing. Most recently, he was Vice President of Security Research at Visa Inc., and has held roles as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer in the Cryptography Research Division of Rambus Inc., Senior Fellow and head of security architecture at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and earlier in his career, as a senior manager and senior technical staff member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center.

Silviu Vlasceanu is a Senior Technical Expert at Huawei, heading the Trusted Computing and System Integrity Research group. He has more than 15 years of experience in system and network security and has been contributing in different stages of the R&D lifecycle to the security of several products, such as network devices, PKI solutions, cloud infrastructure and IoT. At Huawei, he has been contributing to the adoption of trusted computing solutions based on TCG technologies such as TPM, DICE and cyber-resilience building blocks to improve the system security of routers, server CPUs and BMCs or base stations, from the hardware, to platform firmware and operating systems. In the past, he has been developing security technologies for IBM System X and for the Special Telecommunications Service. He holds a M.Sc. in Electronics from Military Technical Academy in Bucharest and a M.Sc. with High Honors in Telecommunications and Networks from National Polytechnic Institute in Toulouse. Co-author of 10 patents (5 pending) in the system integrity domain.

Chris Van Peeren is a Firmware Security Architect for Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. He has over 20 years of system engineering experience, with over 10 of those years spent in enterprise security. At Lenovo, Chris is responsible for driving the development and implementation of security requirements and features for Lenovo’s products.

Dong Wei is an Arm Fellow and Lead Standards Architect of the Architecture and Technology Group in Arm Limited. Dong joined Arm in 2016. He leads the Arm SystemReady certification program with definitions of the hardware, firmware requirements for the Arm-based systems in the cloud data center, industrial edge and IoT markets. He also leads the system manageability and security requirements for these systems. In this standards-based effort, he covers industry standards such as PCI Express, TCG, CXL, UCIe, UEFI/ACPI, DMTF, OCP and OPI.

Shiva Dasari is a Senior Distinguished Technologist and the Chief Infrastructure Security Architect in the Office of the CTO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). He leads end-to-end infrastructure security architecture for HPE products including Servers and Storage.

Shiva plays an active role in various TCG forums including the Board, Technical Committee. He chairs the Server work group and co-chairs the Vulnerability Response Board Subcommittee. He is an active contributor to many TCG specifications. He was also a contributor to NIST publications including SP800-193.

In addition to security architecture, he is also a thought leader in Secure Development Lifecycle, Supply Chain Security, Signing Server Infrastructure, Product Security Incident Handling Process, and Security Certification processes.

Prior to HPE, Shiva served as the Security CTO for Lenovo’s Enterprise Business Group. Preceding to IBM System x acquisition by Lenovo, Shiva worked at IBM over 18 years in the x86 server development in various roles including the Chief Security Architect of System x & Flex Servers. He was responsible for security architecture, strategy, and roadmap of IBM System x & Flex servers. Shiva was the driving force in making TPM shipped as a standard component in IBM x86 servers which significantly accelerated its penetration into server ecosystem. Shiva was the pioneer in architecting and delivering an industry leading solution for securing IBM’s BMC called Integrated Management Modules (IMM) using security innovation in conjunction with TCG technologies.

Shiva has over 40 patents in the areas of Security, Server Architecture, Memory, PCI, and Processor Architecture. Shiva holds a master’s degree in software systems. He is also a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), and Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA).

Dong Wei is an Arm Fellow and Lead Standards Architect of the Architecture and Technology Group in Arm Limited. Dong joined Arm in 2016. He leads the Arm SystemReady certification program with definitions of the hardware, firmware requirements for the Arm-based systems in the cloud data center, industrial edge and IoT markets. He also leads the system manageability and security requirements for these systems. In this standards-based effort, he covers industry standards such as PCI Express, TCG, CXL, UCIe, UEFI/ACPI, DMTF, OCP and OPI.