Richelle Ahlvers is Storage Management Software Architect at Broadcom Inc., where she defines storage management integrations, solutions, and standards strategies for the Data Center Storage Group.

Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years.  She served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and currently sits on the SNIA Board of Directors.  She has been engaged technically across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage. She currently leads the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API.  Richelle also serves as the liaison for the SNIA with the DMTF, as well as the DMTF's liaison to the SNIA.