Dan Daly joined Intel in 2011 as part of the acquisition of Fulcrum Microsystems. At Intel he is an Architect with a focus on the OpenFlow® Standard, SDN, and network virtualization. He joined Fulcrum in 2001 and served as Technical Director of Software and Systems, specializing in the interfacing of software control planes with high-speed, low-latency switch hardware. Dan received a B.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.