Sept. 28, 2020 — The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announces today that Rebecca Weekly, Senior Principal Engineer & Senior Director of Hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel Corporation will serve on its Board of Directors. Rebecca replaces Jason Waxman, who has served since 2011 when Intel joined the Board. The OCP Foundation would like to thank Jason for contributing his time and talents to the OCP Community for so many years.
Rebecca joins board members Andy Bechtolsheim, Jim Hawkins (Rackspace), Kushagra Vaid (Microsoft), Partha Ranganathan (Google), Rocky Bullock (OCP), and Mark Roenigk (Facebook), who serves as Chairman.
“We’re excited to have Rebecca on board. She is very passionate about her role and has already identified potential opportunities for Intel to help move OCP forward,” stated Rocky Bullock, CEO for the Open Compute Project Foundation.
“On behalf of the OCP Community, I would like to thank Jason Waxman for his passion, leadership, and influence over these last 9 years as a founding board member of the Open Compute Project. It’s also a pleasure to welcome Rebecca Weekly to the Board, and we look forward to her contributions as OCP continues to scale” stated Mark Roenigk, Chairman and President of the Board for the Open Compute Project Foundation.
About Rebecca Weekly
Rebecca leads the team that influences nearly every aspect of our hyperscale platform solutions across strategic planning, hardware & software enabling, marketing and sales. Together she shapes the development, production and business strategy of Intel’s hyperscale platforms to ensure end-user value enabling TAM expansion. She drives strategic collaborations with key partners including top cloud service providers, OxMs, ISVs & OSVs to ensure platform requirements meet our joint customers’ needs. Along with driving record breaking financial results, she has architected a world-class organization that role models diversity and inclusion, team development, and career growth opportunities for high performing talent to deliver the success of Intel’s multi-billion-dollar Hyperscale cloud business.
In her “spare” time, she’s the lead singer of a funk & soul band, Sinister Dexter, was professionally trained in dance (tap, modern, and jazz), and is an experienced choreographer. She has two amazing little boys, and loves to run (after them, and on her own).
Rebecca graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
About Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. OCP’s collaboration model is being applied beyond the data center, helping to advance the telecom industry & EDGE infrastructure. www.opencompute.org
Source: Open Compute Project