John has been CNSV Chair since 2023, and he was CNSV Vice Chair in 2022.

Perry West is CNSV Secretary.

Paul has been CNSV Treasurer since 2021.

Dr. Kim Parnell is a Stanford PhD in Mechanical Engineering, a Fellow of ASME, and an IEEE Life Senior Member. He has been a CNSV Director continuously since 2010, and also in 2005 and 2007. Dr. Parnell was CNSV Chair in 2008-2009 and Vice-Chair in 2006. He was 2011 Chair of the IEEE-SCV (Santa Clara Valley) Section (the largest IEEE Section in the world), and has been IEEE-VTS (Vehicular Technology Society) SCV Vice-Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer since 2013. Dr.Parnell is an active Expert Witness for litigation involving patents, medical devices, reliability, failure analysis, product liability, and personal injury.

Brian has been a CNSV member since 1998, and has spoken at over ten CNSV events since that time. His IEEE involvement includes the following:

• IEEE Senior Member
• IEEE Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section Chair (2012), Vice Chair (2011) and Secretary (2010)
• IEEE-CNSV Chair (2006-2007), Director (2008-2011, 2013-present), At-Large Director (2004, 2012), Marketing Committee (2004)
• IEEE Region 6 Milestone Coordinator (2015-present)
• IEEE SCV Tech History Committee Co-Vice-Chair (2015-present)
• IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Adviser (2013-2015)

He gave talks at CNSV Consultant Business Seminar (CBS) events in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2005 on topics including the effective use of a website for marketing your consulting business. He has been a CNSV member since 1998. Brian spearheaded a major overhaul of the CNSV website in early 2006 to make it the organization’s centerpiece. The website has improved CNSV’s visibility in Silicon Valley and beyond. He has been an independent consultant for over 30 years. Brian has extensive experience with optical and magnetic storage devices and storage interfaces. His consulting assignments have included:

• software developer
• hardware/software integrator
• project lead
• industry analyst
• seminar leader
• technical marketer
• technical writer

Brian has served as an Expert Witness in over 80 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes. He has participated in over 80 conferences and industry events as speaker, session chair, conference chair and conference advisory board member. Besides IEEE, he is a member of ACM, Computer History Museum (Core Member), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA), IDEMA, Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA; Senior Member), Software Development Forum and The Tech Museum of Innovation. Brian is on the Conference Advisory Boards of the Flash Memory Summit, Ethernet Technology Summit and Storage Visions, as well as the organizing committees of other computer conferences.

David has been a Director since 2020. He was CNSV Chair in 2018-2019, Vice Chair in 2017, Treasurer in 2015-2016, and an At-Large Director in 2014.

He is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software developer who has written more than 1 million lines of code. He has experience in: VLSI physical design and verification (placement, routing, design rule checking, circuit extraction, mask data preparation, scribe line generation); logic synthesis; physical synthesis; circuit design and analysis (SPICE automation, timing analysis, library generation); Intellectual Property (IP) analysis and tracking.

He also is an expert witness specializing in analysis of GDS/GDSII/OASIS data files for evidence of patent infringement or IP misuse.

John is a CNSV Director, was a Director in 2013-2014, and was an At-Large Director in 2009-2012 and 2022-2023. He has also been Marketing Committee Chair, and co-founder/past Chair of the Consulting Practices Program (CPP).

David is a CNSV Director, and was CNSV Secretary in 2021-2023.

Andy’s skills include consumer electronics, computer systems, IC design, mechatronics, sensors and embedded software. He has extensive experience as an Expert Witness with patents, and with IP strategy work. He is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions in hardware code compression of embedded software, power consumption analysis, and optimization.”

Andy has been a CNSV Director since 2023. He was a CNSV At-Large Director in 2022.

Tom is a CNSV At-Large Director, and was also an At-Large Director in 2016-2021. He was CNSV Chair in 2022, and a CNSV Director in 2023. He has been a member of CNSV for well over 10 years. He is an IEEE Fellow “for leadership in consumer electronics digital storage technology.”

Rachel has been an At-Large Director since 2024.