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Robert Pearson
President
Bob is a 25-year veteran of the computer system industry. He has been involved in all phases of this business including software design, hardware design, engineering management, business development and executive management. His specialty is in the area of high performance I/O where he holds several patents.

Bob holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Texas.

Former positions held:

  • Vice President of Business Development - VIEO, Inc.
  • Research Staff Member T. J. Watson Research Labs-IBM
  • Vice President of Engineering - Essential Communications
  • Manager, Business Development AWD-IBM
  • Director of Software Development- Culler Scientific Systems

Bob's accomplishments include significant roles in the instruction set architecture design for the Culler-7, 4 Gb/sec I/O adapter design for the IBM Power Visualization System, IBM Serial Hippi PCI adapter design and 8 Gbit/sec GSN adapter design.

Bill Boas
Vice President of Business Development
With nearly 30 years experience in the field of high-performance computing and networking, Bill Boas is a recognized technology veteran and a pioneer in the field. Prior to joining System Fabric Works in 2006, Bill was with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Computing Directorate from 2002-2006 where his responsibilities included managing the PathForward program development and contract management for InfiniBand and the Lustre File System.

In the late nineties while at Abba Technologies, a systems integrator in which he was co-owner, Bill was instrumental in winning the DOE PathForward contract to help develop the Gigabyte System Networking technology for IBM, HP, and Sun – the technology which evolved into today’s InfiniBand. In the early 1990’s he founded Essential Communications, a leading gigabit networking supplier worldwide prior to the advent of gigabit Ethernet.

Boas holds a BSc.Eng in Computers and Communications and has been a Golden Core member of the IEEE for nearly 20 years.

Bill’s career highlights include being a key founder of OpenIB Alliance in 2002. Instrumental in driving the inclusion of iWARP/RDMA over Ethernet technology to become the OpenFabrics Alliance (www.openfabrics.org) in 2006. Bill initiated the SCinet networks at the Supercomputing Conferences. At SCO5 in Seattle, Bill organized the geographically largest and most vendor-diverse InfiniBand network ever. The network contained over 30 different InfiniBand switches, over 50 hosts/clusters linking the Naval Research Laboratory, LLNL, Intel’s Dupont facility and the SC05 exhibit floor. Bill Gates, the SC05 keynote speaker, used the network to preview Microsoft’s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Patricia Soch
Vice President Finance
Patti has a strong background in financial management in the software industry. She has held senior financial management roles in multiple technology organizations. Several of these firms were high growth and venture capital backed. Patti's background gives her the experience to maintain flexibility within the organization and retain a reasonable level of structure while managing high growth.

Patti holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington and attended SMU’s Executive MBA program.

Former positions held:

  • Chief Financial Officer - VIEO, Inc.
  • Chief Financial Officer - QuestLink Technologies, Inc.
  • Chief Financial Officer - Visible Decisions, Inc.
  • Chief Financial Officer - UniSQL, Inc.
  • Vice President of Finance & Operations - Uniplex, Inc.
  • Vice President of Finance - Lab Force, Inc.

John Groves
Programmer Emeritus
John has been a respected software architect, developer, consultant and entrepreneur since the early 90s. Specializing in data storage and I/O, John has worked extensively with major vendors including Sun, StorageTek, IBM, HP, Agilent, Compaq, DEC, SGI, EMC, Clariion, Emulex, Qlogic, Ampex, Loral, StoreAge, LSI and Kickfire (to name a few). John was also a key consultant in the development of Chase Bank's first automated check image archive.

John holds a BS in Physics from Northern Illinois University.

Former positions held:

  • CEO/Owner Groves Technology Corporation
  • CEO/Founder Gresham Enterprise Storage
  • CEO/Founder Open Microsystems, Inc.

Prior to founding Open Microsystems in 1991, John developed Hippi, Escon and "Block Mux" I/O subsystems.