Leadership

Executive Leadership Council

David Reiner - AMD
Chair

David Reiner - AMD

AMD Server Standards Strategist, SPEC President

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

David Reiner is AMD's Server Standards Strategist, the President of SPEC, and the Chair of The Green Grid. He leads Advanced Micro Devices’ Industry Benchmark Consortium, Government Energy Regulation, and International Energy Standards strategy and representation for the Datacenter Solutions Group. He is AMD's primary representative to SPEC, The Green Grid (TGG), ISO/IEC, and worldwide government energy efficiency regulatory agencies (EPA, CNIS, EU Commission, METI, and UBA). He also interfaces on AMD's behalf with ITIc, USITO (China), Digital Europe, TCO, and JEITA (Japan). He is the President of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmark consortium (since 2017) and has been a member of SPEC’s Board of Directors since 2011. David is the Chair of The Green Grid (since 2020), leading the TGG Advisory Council, the highest body within TGG. He also is the Chair of TGG's Server and Storage Energy (SSE) Working Group, the leading energy efficiency analysts and primary voice of industry to worldwide governments for Server and Storage energy efficiency regulations.

David is the originator and Editor of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 21836 Draft International Standard, which is expected to be the standard methodology for evaluating server energy efficiency for government regulations worldwide. Previous roles include TGG Board of Directors (prior to ITIc acquisition), representative to EEMBC benchmark consortium, manager of AMD’s Server Performance and Power Optimization (SPPO) team, and a number of performance and power analysis engineering roles for server, workstation, and client products, both at AMD and Dell. David holds a Computer Engineering degree from Purdue University.
Donald Goddard - NetApp
Vice Chair

Donald Goddard - NetApp

Environmental Product Engineer

NetApp, Inc.

Donald Goddard is responsible for Environmental Product Compliance at NetApp, Inc. This includes compliance with RoHS, REACH, and other dangerous or hazardous material regulations related to products. He is also responsible for Energy Efficiency regulatory compliance.

He is currently Green Grid Advisory Council Vice Chairman and serves on several Green Grid and ITI technical or standards committees. He also serves on the SNIA Green Storage Initiative as Co-Chairman of the Green Storage Technical Work Group.

He has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering From Arizona State University.
Ricardo Gonzalez Llera - IBM
Executive Leadership Council Member

Ricardo Gonzalez Llera - IBM

Corporate Environmental Affairs - Manager, Energy, Climate and Global Environmental Management System

IBM Corporation

Ricardo Gonzalez has a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering with a MSc degree in Environmental Planning and Management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and a MSc in Environmental and Health Management from MIT and Harvard School of Public Health.

As a Senior Engineer and Manager of IBM's Corporate Environmental Affairs Staff, he is responsible for leading IBM’s corporate climate and energy strategy and goal setting: energy conservation, operational CO2 emissions reduction, renewable electricity procurement, and product and data center energy efficiency and for establishing and advocating for IBM's public policy positions on these topics. He drives business unit attainment of IBM energy and climate goals and works with business units to establish, timely update and execute against their energy conservation and efficiency plans in support of these goals. Provides advice and counsel to business units on energy and climate issues (e.g., regulations, compliance strategy, RFPs, client and 3rd party inquiries, marketing materials). He is responsible for the global execution of IBM's Global Environmental and Energy Management Systems, Including maintaining IBM's ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 single global certifications. He is responsible for IBM’s external disclosures and advocacy in these areas.

Ricardo is a member of the Advisory Council for The Green Grid, and a member of the US Technical Advisory Committees to ISO TC 207 (Environmental Management Systems) and TC 301 (Energy Management Systems).
Shahid Sheikh - Intel
Executive Leadership Council Member

Shahid Sheikh - Intel

Director, Global Product EE Policy & Regulations

Intel

Shahid Sheikh is a Director in Governments, Markets and Trade (GMT) Group at Intel Corporation, and leads Intel’s global product sustainability policy effort. Shahid is responsible for proactively engaging with ecosystem partners and leading Intel and Industry effort to influence global ICT Energy Efficiency Regulations, Standards and Policy, with key government agencies in the US, EU, China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and India. He has taken on leadership roles in driving Industry initiatives on Global alignment of ICT Product Energy Efficiency Programs. He is currently the member the Green Grid (TGG) Executive Leadership Council (ELC), an affiliate of ITIC.

Shahid has held several leadership positions at Intel over the years in the areas of wafer fabrication, supply-chain, technology enabling and most recently in environment and energy policy. He earned a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and holds an Executive MBA from University of New Mexico.
Jeff Doolittle - HPE
Executive Leadership Council Member

Jeff Doolittle - HPE

Environmental Product Steward

HPE
Lee Smith - Mastercard
Executive Leadership Council Member

Lee Smith - Mastercard

South African born, Lee Smith has been in the IT and data center industry for more than 30 years. He has broad experience, ranging from Data Center Operations and Strategy through to IT and Digital Infrastructure Management. Lee is a subject matter expert in the fields of mission-critical data centers and data center operations. He has expertise in the design, establishment, and operational management of data centers, which he integrates in finding solutions to digital infrastructure industry challenges pertaining to sustainability and efficiency. He is passionate about ESG. Although Lee remains focused on data centers and infrastructure, he also contributes to education and the development of skills within the industry. He is a forever student.