The ISTO Board of Directors oversees the financial operations of the organization. In this capacity, the Board approves the ISTO Business Plan and related outputs. Directors also serve to promote the benefits of industry and government organizations partnering with ISTO. Comprised of industry professionals, director candidates are nominated through a formal process via a nominations committee of program peers. Once nominated, a ballot is distributed annually to all Board members of active ISTO Programs to elect new and/or returning directors to the Board. In this way, members of the ISTO Federation, are empowered to help guide the future direction of the organization.
Board of Directors
Yatin Trivedi
Board Chairman & Officer
Service Line Executive, Capgemini
Yatin Trivedi is a Service Line Executive with Altran, Inc. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of ISTO and the Treasurer and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). He has also served on the Education Activities Board (EAB) since 2012.
Marco W. Migliaro
Secretary & Treasurer, ISTO
Marco W. Migliaro has been involved in the development of standards and standards activities for more than 50 years. He was one of four persons appointed as a director on the IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors (BoD), once the IEEE-ISTO was formed. He was elected Chair of the BoD in 2000 and became President in 2003. He has also served terms as [...]
Daniel C. Burnett
President & CEO of ISTO
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. Burnett has over 25 years of experience in Web and Internet standards. As Principal for StandardsPlay, his consulting firm, Dan helped a variety of companies play the standards game, both advising clients in how they could strengthen their brand and market positions through standards leadership and representing them directly in organizations such as W3C and the IETF. Dan's introduction to [...]
Dr. Leo Casey
Director
Power Systems Lead Engineer, Google X
Dr. Leo Casey is the Power Systems Lead Engineer at Google X. Prior to that, he was Satcon’s Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Engineering. Leo has over 35 years of experience in power electronics and power engineering, including ultimate responsibility for the design and commercialization of numerous utility scale power conversion products. These products included inverters, solid state switches, converters, and flywheels, with a focus on the management and integration of alternative, renewable and distributed resources into the grid.
Brian K. Daly
Director
AT&T Fellow | AVP Standards & Industry Alliances, AT&T
Brian K. Daly – AT&T Fellow | AVP Standards & Industry Alliances, is a globally recognized technology visionary and thought leader for emerging technologies, focusing on frontiers of technology that transform the industry. Brian identifies the impact of disruptive innovation and telecommunication regulation on the industry, and shapes the development of standards in an open source world to enable the next generation [...]
Forrest D. (Don) Wright
Director
President, Standards Strategies, LLC
Mr. Wright is the President of Standards Strategies, LLC, an information and communication technology standardization engineering firm. He is the retired Director of Worldwide Standards for Lexmark International, a leading developer of printing technology and products. He has over 40 years of experience in standards, engineering, software development and marketing. Since graduating from the University of Louisville with a Master’s Degree [...]