Zoran Dimitrijevic, Airbnb Labs.
(PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. Google Systems Infrastructure, Google News, YouTube, and Google News Archives Search, 2004-2013. Principal Software Engineer at Altiscale and SAP Labs 2014-2019.)

I have known Dejan Milojicic for about 20 years since I was his intern at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Summer 2000. I want to strongly endorse Dejan for the President of IEEE. Dejan has in-depth technical expertise in distributed computer systems with long experience working with systems from several eras (from mainframes and personal computers to supercomputers and clusters). Dejan has the ability to bring people with different expertise, experience and ideas together and to motivate them to contribute to society by publishing their work and by sharing their vision. Given the challenges professional societies face today I believe Dejan has the energy, skills and the ability to help IEEE choose the right path for the next decade.