John Josephakis is Global VP of Sales and Business Development for HPC/Supercomputing at NVIDIA. He has more than 30 years’ experience in high performance computing with a career that started working Light House HPC accounts both in the commercial space as well as Research and Academia. Prior to NVIDIA, he ran WW Sales and for Cray Inc. and before that for DataDirect Networks. As part of his work experience John has been involved with many of the Top Supercomputing deployments that we see on a regular basis on the Top500 list in every region of the world. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mechanical engineering from the University of Texas and an MBA from Saint Edwards University.