Ben Pfaff

Ben was one of the first employees at Nicira Networks in 2007. He founded and led development of the Open vSwitch, OVN and OpenFlow reference implementation projects.

For over 20 years, Ben has worked in free and open source software projects, including Debian and GNU. Ben is a Senior Member of ACM and a Fellow of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He has a PhD from Stanford University.