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Rich Brueckner
Rich Brueckner
President, insideHPC, LLC
Rich Brueckner acquired insideHPC in August, 2010. Rich has over 24 years of marketing and communications experience in High Performance Computing. Known to many in the industry as “the guy in the red hat,” Rich has been a fixture at the Supercomputing conferences since 1991 as an exhibit team manager for Cray Research, SGI, and Sun Microsystems. In his most recent role as HPC Community Manager at Sun, Rich authored the HPC Watercooler, an online news publication that soon became one of the widely read blogs at the company with thousands of page views per day.
As a technical writer, Rich cut his teeth on HPC in 1986 at CRAY X-MP repair school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He moved on to Marketing Communications in 1990, where he wrote a number of award-winning brochures and videos for the company. In 2000, Sun Microsystems hired Rich to produce its HPC user events and exhibits. In the course of ten years at Sun, Rich produced over 100 parody videos for customer events and sales meetings.
Rich currently serves on the ACM/IEEE SC Conference Communications Committee (SC09 and SC10) where he has been instrumental in adopting the use of social media.
When he’s not working, Rich keeps busy writing fiction, cartoons, and parody films. You can check out his latest works: The Three Magi of Katrina, Seven Meals from Chaos, Jigsaw Falling into Place, and Bardo. Rich lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas Thurston, President and Managing Director Growth Science International
Thomas Thurston
President and Managing Director
Growth Science International
http://growthsci.com/
Thomas is a globally renowned thought leader in specialized bodies of strategy, investing and decision making. Formerly, Thomas worked in corporate venturing at Intel where he helped guide new business investments. He also helped found an HPC venture that was acquired in 2008.
Thomas is Executive Director of the Revenue Capital Association and a Member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard. While currently inactive from practicing law Thomas is also a Member of the Oregon State Bar (044359) and was an Attorney for startup ventures. He holds a BA, MBA, Juris Doctor and was honored as a research fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
William Wallace
William Wallace
Publisher, inside-HPC and inside-BigData
William Wallace is a 10+ year sales and marketing veteran who has specialized in the high tech world. An avid writer, Mr. Wallace has published a number of feature articles on the such varying topics as bike racing, men’s issues and music criticism. His interests include bike racing, hiking, Don DeLillo, and Miles Davis.
Wallace graduated with honors from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Urban Studies and studied at Oxford University in England under the Fellowship Program in Humanities.
Ralph Wells
Ralph Wells
Editor, inside-HPC and inside-BigData
Ralph Wells joins the insideHPC editorial team as Associate Editor in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Wells worked 11 years at The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon’s daily newspaper, where he focused on business and technology.
Dawn Tappen
Graphic Designer
Dawn Tappen joined insideHPC in 2011. As an artist and graphic designer, Dawn supports our web site with beauty, charm, and editorial support.
Grant Peterson
Video Technician
Grant Peterson joined insideHPC in 2010. As a writer and video technician, Grant is our go-to guy for events.
Chris Karges
Videographer
Chris Karges joined insideHPC in 2011. As an award-winning videographer, Chris shoots our video and makes our clients look like a million dollars.
Les Lorenzo
Storage Analyst
insideHPC, LLC
Les Lorenzo
Les Lorenzo has over 20 years of marketing experience in IT, with significant experience in servers, storage, software and HPC. He got his start in computing at Pyramid Technology, a provider of SMP UNIX systems using a the MIPS architecture, where he worked as an international marketing manager and later in European sales support where he was responsible for OEM relationships with Olivetti Systems and Networks, Siemens-Nixdorf and ICL.
In 1995 Les joined Sun Microsystems where he had several roles first as an analyst relations manager, and later he was the product manager for the Enterprise 10,000 the first truly large scale UNIX SMP system used extensively in commercial data centers and in HPC applications. Later he performed other roles at Sun including mid-range strategic planning, and product line manager for the Sun mainframe re-platforming suite of middleware products.
In 2006 Les joined Fujitsu Computer Systems (now Fujitsu America) where he was business development manager for the NeoKicks and NeoBatch products that enable movement of mainframe applications to the .NET environment, working extensively with Microsoft. Les is a graduate of the University of California at Davis, and is currently an MBA student at the University of Maryland.
