Rodrigo Liang is the CEO and co-founder of SambaNova. With more than two decades of experience in semiconductor engineering, Rodrigo previously led some of the industry’s largest teams at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he built high-performance processors for enterprise systems. His career began at Hewlett-Packard. Rodrigo holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Kunle Olukotun
Co-Founder & Chief Technologist
Kunle is co-founder of SambaNova Systems and is Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002. He is a Pioneer of Chip Multiprocessor Designs, Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Co-leader of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) research program.
Christopher Ré
Co-Founder
Christopher (Chris) Ré is co-founder of SambaNova Systems and is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in the InfoLab who is affiliated with the Statistical Machine Learning Group, Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Stanford AI Lab. He co-founded a company based on his research that was acquired in 2017.
Anthony Lin
Anthony Lin is Vice President of Intel Corporation and a Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital. He leads equity investments globally in innovative technology startups and companies worldwide, delivering market leading returns by providing not only financial investments, but also the full resources of Intel to its portfolio companies. He also leads Intel’s mergers and acquisition team, contributing to Intel’s growth strategy. Lin joined Intel’s M&A team in 2008 and has more than 25 years of experience in technology M&A, investments, strategy, financial planning and business development. Before joining Intel, Lin worked for 12 years in corporate finance, M&A and private equity roles at Banc of America Securities, ASAT, Merrill Lynch and PaineWebber. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Amit Lubovsky
Amit Lubovsky is an Investment Director at Softbank Vision fund. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology space. Prior to Softbank, Amit led the development of the first paid mobile product at Salesforce. Earlier, Amit co-founded and sold CrowdX a mobile data analytics platform and Tawkon a mobile app that empowers cellphone users to live a healthy lifestyle. Earlier in his career, Amit held Software and product roles at Texas Instruments, Infineon and Rad group. Amit graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel Aviv university majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and earned his MBA from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
Dave Munichiello
Dave is a General Partner at Google Ventures who has led investments for GV in platforms like Slack, Segment, GitLab, CoreOS, Cockroach, and Lattice.io. He’s built and led enterprise software sales and operations teams for highly-technical products, under pressure, in rapidly- changing markets. He is a former Senior Director at Amazon and Kiva Systems.
Clyde Hosein
President & COO
Clyde previously served as the CFO for several high-tech companies including RingCentral, Automation Anywhere, Marvell Technologies, AliveCor, Advanced Interconnect Technologies, and Candescent Technologies. He was also formerly at IBM for more than 14 years in engineering and finance roles.
Abhi Ingle
Chief Product & Strategy Officer
Abhi Ingle is the Chief Product and Strategy Officer at SambaNova, where he leads global product strategy, innovation, and corporate development to advance the company’s mission of delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions. With more than 30 years scaling technology businesses, he combines expertise in AI/ML automation, SaaS transformation, and cross-industry go-to-market execution to accelerate growth. A builder of high-performing teams, he has driven revenue through complex technology sales and strategies that catalyzed market leadership at Qualtrics and AT&T. Previously on SambaNova’s advisory board, Abhi aligns product roadmaps with emerging customer needs. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
Annie Shea Weckesser
Chief Marketing Officer
As Chief Marketing Officer, Annie leads the marketing and communications team responsible for building reputation, engagement, and demand across the globe. Prior to this role, Annie spent more than 5 years as the CMO of Enterprise AI Company, Uniphore. Before joining Uniphore, Annie was part of the leadership team at NIO, a next generation car company, leading US marketing and communications from startup through a successful IPO. Previously, Annie held various strategic communications and marketing roles for the global technology giant Cisco for nine years. Throughout her career, she has counseled and partnered with some of the world’s most senior corporate and government leaders and their teams. She has a passion for building companies, great spaces, and achieving incredible things with stellar teams.
Harry Ault
Chief Revenue Officer
As Chief Revenue Officer, Harry brings more than 20 years of both systems and software GTM expertise building high performance global sales teams. At Broadcom, he led the Server and Storage division to results well above the annual plan, and most recently at Datastax, Harry was instrumental in the execution of their Generative AI strategy which has taken the company to record new logo, ARR growth rates, partner success, and industry recognition. He has a passion for open source, generative AI, and enabling changemakers of the world to build transformative applications and products.
Girish Venkataramani
Senior Vice President, Software
Girish leads the SambaNova software organization that harnesses the power of SambaNova's platform to deliver high-performance AI solutions. He has worked at the intersection of hardware, software and machine learning to speed up computation and productivity for many years. Previously, he led the machine learning compiler team at Nvidia and, more recently, he created and led the AI foundations organization within Cruise, responsible for the data, training and deployment infra for AI workflows. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Engineering.
Navin Chaddha
Navin is Managing Director at Mayfield. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, has ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Global Tech Investors eleven times, and appeared on the New York Times/CB Insights list of top investors four times. During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 50 companies, of which 17 have gone public and 18 have been acquired. Some of his current investments include Fungible, Hashicorp, Lyft, and Poshmark. As an entrepreneur, Navin has co-founded or led three startups including VXtreme, a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media.
Sunil Chandra
Sunil is a global executive who has led and scaled businesses across high technology, banking, and consulting. He is an avid investor and counselor to various startups in the ML/AI space. Sunil was the CEO of OakNorth. He led the company through a period of extensive growth globally bringing on board some of the world’s most sophisticated financial services companies while deepening the product offering. Prior to OakNorth, Sunil was a VP at Google for 12 years, leading several initiatives, ultimately being responsible for the global talent acquisition organization. His prior experiences include leading Barclays Capital in Asia as their Chief Operating Officer for the Technology group. Sunil has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Wollongong in Australia and an MBA from APESMA Sydney.
Amy Chang
Amy serves on the board of directors for Procter & Gamble, and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk and Informatica, which encompass over a half trillion dollars in total market cap. Post-acquisition of her startup Accompany by Cisco for $270M, she led Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business. As EVP and GM of this 6000 person team, she led the videoconferencing, cloud calling, contact center, video device and phones businesses. Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends, and multichannel attribution for over 7 years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She previously led product for the paid search and affiliates channels at eBay, as well as worked in the semiconductor and software industries at McKinsey. She started her career in hardware with Intel, AMD and Motorola.
Colonel (Ret.) Doug Drakeley
Colonel (Ret.) Doug Drakeley is the Chief Coach at Always Be Leadership. In 2021, he retired from the U.S. Air Force, where he led the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s (JAIC) industry outreach effort from Silicon Valley and was the JAIC’s link to the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) at Moffett Federal Field in Mountain View. In this role, Doug worked with AI companies to facilitate their partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) and accelerate the adoption of AI across the DoD. Doug has held numerous leadership positions during his career, including the Director of Intelligence for Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and commander of the first-ever Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group in AFRC, where he grew this team from 38 people to over 1,000 personnel in just two years. Doug also spent 15 years in senior leadership roles at numerous commercial companies focused on sales, marketing and customer satisfaction. His industry experience includes manufacturing, telecommunications, broadband, financial services and technology firms. Finally, Doug is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership at Wright State University.
Dr. Edward (Ed) H. Frank
Dr. Edward H. Frank is co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Lime, Inc and a member of the Board of Directors at several companies, including Analog Devices and Marvell. Dr. Frank has more than 30 years of experience in key roles at companies including Apple, Broadcom, and Sun Microsystems, as well as companies he has co-founded.
Mark Hawkins
Former Salesforce President & CFO Emeritus, Tech Veteran (Salesforce, Autodesk, Logitech, Dell and HP), Strategic Advisor and member of the Board of Directors of Workday, Toast, Cloudflare, Secureworks and private companies. Mr. Hawkins holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, an M.B.A from the University of Colorado, and also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Jolie Hunt
As CEO + Founder of Hunt & Gather, a marketing and communications agency that advises startup ventures, revives the strategic communications efforts of established brands, and applies discreet influencer relations to pair people and places. Jolie is known for her profile-raising counsel to executives and companies alike. She has held executive positions at AOL, Thomson Reuters, IBM and the Financial Times and serves on the board of Kilroy Realty (NYSE: KRC), where she chairs the CSR + Sustainability Committee (ESG).
Brian Long
Brian is founder and managing partner of Atlantic Bridge Capital, a Global Growth Technology fund with over $1B under management. He is also the founder of Summit Bridge Capital, a joint venture China fund based in Beijing and Palo Alto. Prior to Atlantic Bridge, Brian was founder and CEO of CEVA plc and led its IPO in 2000 (Nasdaq: CEVA). Brian was also founder and chairman of GloNav Inc., a fabless semiconductor company which developed the first single chip GPS solution for Galaxy Mobile phones (acquired by NXP).
Tiark Rompf
Tiark is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is an expert on programming languages and compilers. He has 20 years of experience leading commercial and open source software projects, has co-founded two startups, and was a member of the team that developed the Scala programming language.
Young Sohn
Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, passionate about building businesses and excited about emerging technologies that have a positive impact to transform lives. Young currently serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy for global innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN.