Kevin leads Networking at NVIDIA, joining from Mellanox Technologies where he was Senior Vice President of Marketing. He has been a founder or senior executive at five startups that have achieved positive outcomes. Combining both technical and business expertise, Kevin has variously served as the Chief Officer of technology, architecture, and marketing at these companies. He led the development of strategy and products across a broad range of disciplines including networking, security, cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, smart energy and DNA sequencing. Kevin has contributed to multiple technology standards and has over 25 patents in areas including wireless communications, error correction, security, video compression and DNA sequencing. He is a contributing author of a text on BiCMOS design. Kevin holds a BA in Solid State Physics from UC Berkeley.