WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liqid® (www.liqid.com), the global leader in software defined memory and GPU pooling infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Kevin Connors to its Board of Directors. Connors was Vice President of Sales, Strategic Accounts at NVIDIA, where for more than 20 years he led consultative selling to NVIDIA's global strategic OEM accounts, building the competitive strategies that win designs and the executive relationships that keep them. His career sits at the intersection of high-performance computing, computer graphics and simulation, and the infrastructure behind today's AI factories, the same ground where Liqid's memory and GPU pooling operates. Connors will serve on Liqid's Board in an individual capacity.
Connors brings more than 30 years of experience across sales, business development, marketing, and product management. At NVIDIA, he worked with the world's largest server and system OEMs to align their product plans with NVIDIA technology roadmaps, develop joint go to-market strategies, and turn competitive engagements into design wins. Before joining NVIDIA in 2006, he was a senior sales account manager at ATI Technologies and held management roles at 3ware, Silicon Graphics, and Digital Equipment Corporation. That path runs from Silicon Graphics' visualization and supercomputing systems, through graphics processors at ATI, to the NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms that now power AI infrastructure.
Liqid's memory and GPU pooling, powered by Liqid Matrix® software, dynamically allocates and scales disaggregated CXL memory and GPUs across servers to raise utilization and deliver superior tokens per dollar, tokens per watt, and tokens per second.
Enterprises deploying AI inference are running into a memory wall and stranded GPU capacity that fixed server architectures cannot solve. Liqid's memory and GPU pooling, powered by Liqid Matrix® software, dynamically allocates and scales disaggregated CXL memory and GPUs across servers to raise utilization and deliver superior tokens per dollar, tokens per watt, and tokens per second. Connors' track record turning strategic OEM relationships into design wins maps directly to how Liqid goes to market.
Executive Perspectives
“Kevin has spent two decades inside NVIDIA's most important OEM relationships, through every major shift from graphics and HPC to GPU-accelerated AI. He knows how strategic OEMs build roadmaps, how design wins are earned, and how to turn a partnership into revenue for both sides. Liqid sells with and through the world's leading server and memory vendors, so Kevin’s experience will be invaluable as we continue our growth trajectory. Kevin's counsel will help us formulate the right designs with those OEMs and put memory and GPU pooling inside more of the infrastructure enterprises are buying for AI.”
— Rick Hegberg, CEO, Liqid
“Kevin was a key part of my team through some of the biggest shifts in our industry, from graphics to high-performance computing to AI. He has seen what it takes to help partners bring new technology to market and scale it. That experience will serve Liqid and its board well as demand for AI infrastructure accelerates.”
— Jay Puri, EVP, NVIDIA“
Kevin gives the Liqid Board firsthand knowledge of how strategic OEMs evaluate new technology and commit to it in their platforms. As Liqid expands its OEM reach, his judgment on partner strategy, design-win execution, and go-to-market will sharpen the decisions we make at the Board level. We're pleased to welcome him.”
— Ashish Puri, Chairman, Liqid Board of Directors; Partner, Lightrock