Bill manages the High Performance Computing Business Unit in the HPC & AI Global Business Unit (GBU). This team manages HPE’s HPC business worldwide.
Bill joined HPE in 2014 and is a seasoned veteran of the servers and high performance computing industry. For Bill’s first five years at HPE, the HPC business grew significantly more than the overall market and the Apollo line of HPC & AI work-load-optimized servers grew to a $1B business. Pure play HPC companies SGI and Cray were acquired and integrated. At the Supercomputing 2015 show, Bill was named “Person to Watch in 2016” by HPCwire.
Bill joined HPE from SGI, where he was the VP and GM for Compute and Storage products. Prior to SGI, Bill worked at NASA and the U.S. Air Force on aircraft programs such X-29, F-16, B-1B, AFTI-111 as well as classified programs. Bill holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University and an MBA from San Jose State University, California.