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Veterans Join Exludus Technologies
eXludus Technologies Inc. today announced that high performance computing (HPC) industry veteran Shahin Khan has joined the company's board of directors, where he will serve alongside notables including Wolfgang Gentzsch. The company named another well-known industry figure, Robert Nikora, as vice president of Americas Sales. "Shahin Khan's deep understanding of the global market dynamics for high performance computing and communications will make our board even stronger. We welcome his perspective," said eXludus Technologies founder and CEO Benoît Marchand.
Khan is vice president and chief marketing officer of network attached processing leader Azul Systems. Before joining Azul, he spent eight years in increasingly responsible positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently as vice president of Sun's High Performance and Technical Computing business unit. Khan also served as Sun's chief competitive officer, creating market strategies and competitive programs covering the systems, storage, software, systems integration, financing, hosting, and IT consulting industries. Prior to Sun Microsystems, he held management positions with Cray Research and Floating Point Systems. Khan is a graduate of Cornell University, with bachelors and masters degrees in engineering, and the author of several peer-reviewed papers on parallel processing and large-scale systems. “We are most fortunate to have someone of the caliber of Robert Nikora joining eXludus to lead our sales efforts in the Americas” said Stephen Perrenod, eXludus Technologies vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “Robert’s extensive experience in the high performance computing and software industries strengthens substantially our ability to provide our compelling data provisioning software solution to the cluster and grid computing marketplace.” Nikora has 22 years of executive and senior sales management experience, including 14 years in HPC with Cray Research, Stellar/Ardent and Alliant Computer Systems and eight years as head of worldwide sales for enterprise software firms IPLocks, New Moon Systems/Tarantella and Wyse Software Technology. His diverse vertical market experience covers the healthcare, life sciences, atmospheric/oceanographic, aerospace, geophysical, government, manufacturing and financial services markets. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from the U.S. Navy, with studies at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI. Board member Wolfgang Gentzsch is the coordinator of the D-Grid, Germany's national e-science infrastructure initiative. He is also an area director of major grid projects at the GGF Steering Group and a visiting scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Khan is vice president and chief marketing officer of network attached processing leader Azul Systems. Before joining Azul, he spent eight years in increasingly responsible positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently as vice president of Sun's High Performance and Technical Computing business unit. Khan also served as Sun's chief competitive officer, creating market strategies and competitive programs covering the systems, storage, software, systems integration, financing, hosting, and IT consulting industries. Prior to Sun Microsystems, he held management positions with Cray Research and Floating Point Systems. Khan is a graduate of Cornell University, with bachelors and masters degrees in engineering, and the author of several peer-reviewed papers on parallel processing and large-scale systems. “We are most fortunate to have someone of the caliber of Robert Nikora joining eXludus to lead our sales efforts in the Americas” said Stephen Perrenod, eXludus Technologies vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “Robert’s extensive experience in the high performance computing and software industries strengthens substantially our ability to provide our compelling data provisioning software solution to the cluster and grid computing marketplace.” Nikora has 22 years of executive and senior sales management experience, including 14 years in HPC with Cray Research, Stellar/Ardent and Alliant Computer Systems and eight years as head of worldwide sales for enterprise software firms IPLocks, New Moon Systems/Tarantella and Wyse Software Technology. His diverse vertical market experience covers the healthcare, life sciences, atmospheric/oceanographic, aerospace, geophysical, government, manufacturing and financial services markets. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from the U.S. Navy, with studies at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI. Board member Wolfgang Gentzsch is the coordinator of the D-Grid, Germany's national e-science infrastructure initiative. He is also an area director of major grid projects at the GGF Steering Group and a visiting scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.