Doug is the Chief Marketing Officer at InspireSemi, a chip design company that provides revolutionary high-performance, energy-efficient accelerated computing solutions for HPC, AI, graph analytics, and other compute-intensive workloads. Thunderbird is a versatile “supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip” delivering >6,000 FP64 CPU cores per PCIe card for unprecedented performance on a wide range of HPC applications, with best-in-class energy efficiency and a disruptive price point.
He began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales & marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into new engineering/scientific/technical computing markets. He then went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems and early stage companies such as CoWare, Newisys, Virtana, and Nimbix (now Eviden).
Doug is President of the Society of HPC Professionals and active in the RISC-V SIG-HPC, Datacenter, marketing, and events committees. He serves on the Venture Mentoring Service for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at The University of Texas and is a technology and business advisor to HealthClicks. Doug earned a BS in Electrical Engineering cum laude from Missouri University of Science & Technology.