James Bond

Senior Vice President, High-Performance Computing (“HPC”)

James is a subject matter expert in HPC/AI with a proven record of launching new cloud and service provider offerings for large scale data centers across the U.S. He has over 20 years’ experience in large scale commercial and public sector solution architecture and IT infrastructure design and implementation, including 15 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (“HPE”) where he most recently led their North America HPC/AI infrastructure platforms category. Under his leadership, the business grew to $2 billion in 2024, representing annual growth of 160%. At HPE North America, he was responsible for all HPC/AI go-to-market activities, designing sales and customer targeting programs, subject matter expert and manager of HPE HPC infrastructure platforms, co-development and selling of HPC server, GPU, storage, and networking solutions with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and others.

Prior to HPE, James led all product development, engineering, marketing, operations, and pre-sales business development for Apptix, the largest (at the time) Application Service Provider for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Unified Communications. Prior to Apptix, he served as the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of IceWEB, where he created one of the first fully automated software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud offerings, before cloud and SaaS terms were coined.

James is also the author of “The Enterprise Cloud” and a keynote speaker at industry events nation-wide, covering topics, such as the benefits of on-premise and hybrid cloud, AI/GenAI use cases, and how to build and deploy AI infrastructure including GPUs, HPC storage, and power/cooling specifically tuned for AI workloads. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland.