Jonmichael Hands
Jonmichael (JM) is a storage and AI expert, and sustainability leader. JM is currently the CEO of FarmGPU, an AI infrastructure company which hosts a decentralized cloud for AI on-demand compute and storage - and also partnering with Solidigm for the innovative AI central storage lab.
Jonmichael spent ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. Jonmichael is the president of the Circular Drive Initiative, 501(c)(6) non-profit, promoting the secure reuse of drives and circular business models for the storage industry. Jonmichael started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.
Jonmichael Hands
Jonmichael (JM) is a storage and AI expert, and sustainability leader. JM is currently the CEO of FarmGPU, an AI infrastructure company which hosts a decentralized cloud for AI on-demand compute and storage - and also partnering with Solidigm for the innovative AI central storage lab.
Jonmichael spent ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. Jonmichael is the president of the Circular Drive Initiative, 501(c)(6) non-profit, promoting the secure reuse of drives and circular business models for the storage industry. Jonmichael started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.
Vaishali Ghiya
Vaishali Ghiya has 27+ years of experience in Networking, Cloud and Security Sales, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering capacities, transforming 200+ people team. She is recognized as Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco.
Sumit Thakur
Na Li
Na Li is Principal AI Solution Architect for the Infrastructure Line of Business (LOB) at Arm. She is responsible for creating AI solutions that showcase the values on Arm-based platforms. She has around 10 years of experience developing AI applications across various industries. Originally trained as a computational neuroscientist and received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
Tony Hall
Tony Hall is the Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the detailed design, fabrication and delivery of our products. Tony has 15 years of experience in the design and construction industry, ranging from design consulting to project planning and management. On the design side, Tony focused on electrical engineering in New York City. Among a variety of project types, mission critical and sophisticated standby power systems were a focus, including projects for Digital Realty, Google, zColo, Telehouse. Since graduate school, Tony broadened his expertise, managing large scale electric utility projects for Exponent and most recently with Clark Construction Group as a Systems Executive in preconstruction, responsible for all mechanical, electrical, plumbing, low voltage and fire protection systems (MEP/LV/FP) in project deliveries ranging from traditional design-bid-build to public private partnerships. Tony brings a depth of understanding across all engineering disciplines and delivery methods, and provides the executive direction for Flexnode’s data centers.
