Mazin Yousif is the Chief Technology Officer of the Royal Dutch Shell Global Account at T-Systems, International. He has held executive and technical positions at IBM, Avirtec, and Intel and academic positions at Duke University, University of Arizona, and Louisiana Tech. He was a principal architect of the InfiniBand Architecture and chaired working groups in the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA). He chairs the Advisory Board of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and founded the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Center for Autonomic Computing. He is an IEEE Distinguished Visitors Speaker on topics related to cloud, autonomic, and green computing. Dr. Yousif has an MS in electrical engineering and PhD in computer engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He can be reached at Mazin.Yousif@t-systems.com.