Dejan is a distinguished technologist and director at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-present]. Previously, he worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. He received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and his MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). Dejan was a managing director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed (2007-2011). Dejan has over 200 papers, 2 books and 60 allowed/granted patents. He is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. Dejan was on 8 PhD thesis committees and he taught a Cloud Management course in San Jose State University. He mentored over 50 interns. Dejan was president of the IEEE Computer Society (2014) and he was an IEEE Presidential Candidate (2019). He is chair of the SCV Corporate Liaison Program (2020). He served on the IEEE Board (Division Director VIII, 2017-2018), Audit Committee (2017-2019, Chair 2018), New Initiatives Committee (2017-2018), Fellows Committee (2016), Awards Board (2018), and the Industry Engagement Committee (2018-2020). Dejan was editor-in-chief of IEEE Computing Now (2008-2012) and Distributed Systems Online (2008-2009) and he has served on many editorial boards and TPCs.