| Long considered one of the true visionaries in the distributed computing movement, Dr. Andrew Grimshaw is the CTO and co-founder of Avaki Corporation. A strong believer in open standards and industry wide collaboration, he is a key member of the Peer-to-Peer Working Group started by Intel, where he serves on the Group Steering Committee and the Technical Architecture Council. In addition, Dr. Grimshaw is a member of Sun Microsystems' Project JXTA Technical Advisory Council. He has also participated on the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) executive committee, the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office (DoD HPCMO) Program Environment & Training (PET) executive committee, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Library (ITL) review panel, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS ) review panel, and the editorial board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Dr. Grimshaw is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Parallel Computation at the University of Virginia, and has published widely in the areas of P2P and distributed computing. Dr. Grimshaw received both his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | 
