Nick McKeown

Dr. Nick McKeown is a Board Member of Open Networking Lab. He is a Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Barefoot Networks, where he serves as Chief Scientist. Dr. McKeown is the Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and Sequoia professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He is also the faculty director of the Open Network Research Center (ONRC). Prior, he was co-founder of Nicira (acquired by VMware), co-founder and CEO of Nemo ("Network Memory"), which is now part of Cisco, and co-founder and CTO of Abrizio Inc. (acquired by PMC-Sierra). He also helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router and spent some time at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. In 2005, he was awarded the British Computer Society Lovelace Medal