Nikolas Herbst could be considered Mr. Everything for the SPEC Research Group. He's the editor of the SPEC RG newsletter, the publicity and research manager of the SPEC RG Cloud subcommittee, and an ICPE steering committee assistant and administrator. He's also served as vice-chair of the Cloud working group. Nikolas was the lead author of a SPEC technical report that established a set of elasticity metrics being considered for future releases of the SPEC IaaS benchmark.