Advisory Board
The Open Compute Project Foundation has opened the process to submit your organization’s interest in joining the OCP Advisory Board!
Click here to access the application form. Only one submission for each organization please! Submissions are due December 5, 2025! No late applications will be accepted.
About the OCP Advisory Board
The OCP Advisory Board (AB) is a group of OCP Corporate Members who are appointed by the OCP Foundation Board of Directors and the Foundation CEO to provide specialist and strategic advice to help solve a range of business and growth challenges. The AB members may be asked to provide advice on how to grow the Foundation, manage a significant business or technology transition, and expand into new innovative technologies, market segments and geographies.
The AB will be chaired by at least one Foundation staff member. Each Corporate member on the AB will appoint a single representative (with approval from the AB co-chairs) to represent them. Unlike a board of directors, the members of the AB are not authorized to act or make binding decisions on behalf of the Foundation and they do not have any fiduciary responsibility. The OCP Advisory Board is not legislated or regulated by any corporate governance policies.
The OCP Advisory Board will meet quarterly, with subgroups meeting more often to tackle special projects. The tenure of an OCP Advisory Board member is two years. An OCP Advisory Board member may apply for additional two-year terms.
Also, the Open Compute Project Foundation and OCP Board of Directors (BoD), from time to time, may wish to add new directors to foster diversity and inclusivity in other market segments and geographies. Candidates for joining the OCP BoD will be chosen from the AB.
Meet our current Advisory Board members!
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- Jeff Wittich, Computing Chief Product Officer, Ampere
- Sangyeun (Paul) Cho, President, Samsung Semiconductor and CEVP, Samsung Electronics, Samsung
- Mohamad El-Batal, Chief Technologist - Systems, Seagate
- Rich Lappenbusch, Senior Principal, Supermicro
OCP Advisory Board Chair:
- Steve Helvie, VP Emerging Markets, OpenCompute Project Foundation
- Dirk Van Slyke, Chief Marketing Officer, OpenCompute Project Foundation
How is the OCP Advisory Board appointed?
The CEO and Board of Directors will use the following criteria to select Corporate Advisory Board members in an open application process..
- Must be an OCP Member
- Demonstrates Technology Leadership in its Market Segment
- Potential Market Impact
- Cultural Alignment with Open Systems
- Represents new business segment, technology segment or business type, or geography for the OCP Community
Diversity: The goal of the Advisory Board is to be an inclusive group and have geographic diversity with global representation.
Expectations of the OCP Advisory Board
The co-chairs of the AB will bring projects and work items to the AB Members to be carried out by select members and provide non-binding recommendations. AB members will be expected to be active participants in work items.
AB member companies will also be evaluated on their contribution to the OCP Community:
- Volunteer positions held by members of their Company
- Committed sponsorships for OCP events and directed funds
- Approved contributions with authors from their organizations
- Marketplace listings (for vendor member companies)
- Accepted OCP Event Presentations
OCP Accepted and OCP Inspired
OCP Accepted™ - A product can be recognized as OCP Accepted™ if it complies with an approved OCP specification AND design files have been contributed (Design Package Guidelines).
OCP Inspired™ - A product can be recognized as OCP Inspired™ if it complies with an approved OCP specification or other types of contribution; HOWEVER, no design files have been contributed.
OCP Accepted™ or OCP Inspired™ products have been demonstrated and meet 4 or more of the OCP tenets-efficiency, openness, impact, scale and efficiency.
All levels of OCP membership are eligible for OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™ recognition.
OCP Ready
The OCP Facility Recognition program is intended to brand your facilities to be OCP Ready. Guidelines were created by our Data Center Facility Project Team and serve as a reference for data center operators and tenants who want to understand the fundamental facility requirements to deploy this gear into their IT space. Facilities that meet these guidelines and approved by the OCP DC Facilities Project receive the certification as an OCP Ready facility.