Mr Steve MILLS, President, IEEE-Standards Association

Steve Mills is retired from Hewlett-Packard Company where he worked for 30 years in the research and development of products for the computer and telecommunications industries.

During his career at HP Steve held several R&D leadership positions including:

• Directed product development of hardware, operating systems, and middleware of continuously available platforms for use in the telecommunications industry
• Led a research team composed of business and technology professionals performing mid-range market and technology research
• Managed R&D teams responsible for development of networking products for commercial servers

Contributions included: the development of SNA networking products, launch of the HP OpenView Network Management Program, and the development of the strategy to move HP servers to a standard based I/O subsystem architecture.

Steve is the President of the IEEE Standards Association where he has actively contributed to the governance of standards development activities since 2001.