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Eli Collins Named for Key Strategy Role | SambaNova Systems

Posted by SambaNova Systems on June 26, 2018

Former Cloudera Executive Joins SambaNova Systems

SambaNova Systems, a rapidly growing Silicon Valley-based startup company building the most advanced machine learning and analytics platforms, today announced Eli Collins has joined the company. Collins will contribute strategically to driving adoption of SambaNova Systems within the open source and commercial ecosystems.

“Eli’s experience leading machine learning and analytics software platform development for the largest enterprises is a significant extension to our software organization and compliments our world-class hardware development efforts,” said Rodrigo Liang, CEO, SambaNova Systems. “We are excited about Eli coming on to help expand our presence in the open source and commercial software communities.”

Collins has been involved in numerous successful efforts to co-design software and hardware to establish new platforms for the enterprise. Most recently, Collins was Chief Technologist and Vice President at Cloudera where he oversaw development of their software platform for machine learning and data analytics.

“Compute for machine learning and analytics is growing exponentially and represents an enormous market opportunity for SambaNova Systems,” said Eli Collins, SambaNova Systems. “They have put together a tremendous team of researchers and engineers to pursue it, and I look forward to working with them to bring a new generation of computing to the marketplace.”

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Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova Systems was founded in 2017 by industry luminaries, and hardware and software design experts from Sun/Oracle and Stanford University. Investors include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV, Walden International, Temasek, GIC, Redline Capital, Atlantic Bridge Ventures, Celesta, and several others. Visit us at sambanova.ai or contact us at info@sambanova.ai. Follow SambaNova Systems on Linkedin.