John Brennan

Who is John Brennan?

John Brennan brings more than 25 years of experience to his role of

leading the hardware engineering team at Azul. John has led the

development of highly scalable computer systems (up to 1024 CPUs) in

addition to having led the development of state of the art

microprocessors.

Prior to joining Azul,

John was the Vice President of Engineering for Professional and

Embedded Solutions at NVIDIA, leading a team which developed standalone

Graphics solutions for use in professional workstations.

Prior

to NVIDA, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Chelsio

communications where he led both the HW and SW development of a 10Gbit

ethernet protocol offload product.

Prior to Chelsio, John spent 4 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems where he

was Vice President of Hardware Engineering for the midrange and highend

server products. At its peak, this product line generated ~$4Billion of

annual revenue which represented about 25% of the revenue for Sun

Microsystems. While at Sun, John led the development of the Sun Fire

3800, 4800, 6800, E15k, E25k and their follow-on products.

Prior

Sun, John spent 9+ years at Silicon Graphics where he led the

development of the Origin 3000 server product line (a distributed

shared memory machine which scaled up to 1024 CPUs). the development of

the R10000 microprocessor, and the development of the R8000

microprocessor.

John has been in the

computer industry since 1981; during this time he as always been

involved in the development of either advanced CPUs or multiprocessor

systems. He has worked Magnuson Computer Systems, Synapse Computer,

Cydrome, and Tandem Computers.

John

graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a BS degree in

Electrical Enigineering and Computer Science. He also holds a Masters

degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.