David Schmidt led the Virtualization Committee in the creation of the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark. His leadership as Chair kept the committee's work focused to deliver the vision for this new benchmark. David's low-key yet energetic approach created a positive benchmark development environment and led the team on a very successful path to releasing the benchmark. In addition to chairing, David virtually wrote the Run and Reporting Rules and provided almost-daily test feedback. The committee relied heavily on David's breadth and depth of knowledge in datacenters and virtualization. David was able to use his impressive organizational and communication skills to seamlessly keep the committee on track, despite a recent employer change. He is a planner who helps the committee establish a roadmap, while maintaining the flexibility to consider innovative alternatives that deviate from the plan.