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Rich Brueckner
Rich Brueckner
President, insideHPC, LLC
Recently named as one of the Top 20 Big Data Influencers by Forbes Magazine, Rich Brueckner is an avid writer, publisher, and technology pundit focused on high performance computing. He acquired inside-HPC.com in 2010 and has since expanded his online publications to include inside-BigData, inside-Cloud, and inside-Startups. With over 25 years of HPC experience at Cray Research, SGI, and Sun Microsystems, Rich is known to many in the industry as “the guy in the Red Hat.”
When he’s not working, Rich keeps busy writing fiction, cartoons, and parody films. You can check out his stories: The Three Magi of Katrina, Seven Meals from Chaos, Friends of the Fallen, The Guardian’s End, and Ghosts of the Indian Herb. He has also penned some short film scripts including: Jigsaw Falling into Place and Bardo. Rich lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe
The Portland Group
Michael Wolfe has developed compilers for over 30 years in both academia and industry. Now a senior compiler engineer at The Portland Group, he recently joined insideHPC as a contributor.

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.









