Born in the North of England, Phil graduated from the University of Surrey in 1982 with an honors degree in engineering and business management. He spent seven years at Inmos before breaking out to co-found the UK’s first Virtual Reality company, Division Group, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1993. In 1996, Phil co-founded PixelFusion as a management buy-out of Division’s profitable 3D graphics hardware business, but that company’s valiant efforts to develop a world-beating 3D chip were no match for NVIDIA. Phil joined NVIDIA in 2005, and after 27 years of immersion in 3D technology, remains committed to the power of 3D to change the world for the better.

In his spare time, Phil enthusiastically but tunelessly plays guitar and bass, occasionally with a Ramones tribute band.

Jon has been at NVIDIA since 2007 and is a part of the Business Development group where he focuses on overall ecosystem development. His responsibilities include investments through the GPU Ventures Program, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, distribution/co-marketing agreements, technology/patent licenses and other activities strategic to the Company.

Besides golf in the summer and skiing in the winter, Jon enjoys working with early-stage disruptive technology companies, as prior to NVIDIA, he was a venture capitalist where he spent a number of years investing in startups before he co-founded OrganicID, which was acquired by Weyerhaeuser for its printable electronics technology. He holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Linda has extensive experience writing about hardware and software in the semiconductor, software and computer-hardware industries. She is the principal owner of Barney and Associates, a technical, marketing and writing web firm that specializes in technology.

Linda holds degrees from Boise State University and University of Oregon. She lives in a suburb of Portland, Oregon and enjoys hiking, cooking, traveling, and gardening.

Ken has been involved in media and communications since Apple shipped the original Mac. As executive editor of Computer Gaming World he followed the development of 3D graphics technology from Wolfenstein 3D to DOOM, Quake, and Call of Duty. As enthusiast PR manager for NVIDIA, he helped launch Crysis which made every gamer crave a GeForce 8800 GTX. Today, as the PR manager for ION, he longs for the day ION-based netbooks can play Crysis at 35fps. Ken enjoys playing PC games and having epic nerf battles with his 7-year old son Cody.

Calisa joined NVIDIA in 2003 and currently focuses on marketing related to CUDA, NVIDIA’s parallel computing architecture. Previously she ran Cole Communications, a PR agency for high-tech startups. She majored in Russian Studies at Wellesley and earned an MA in Communication from Stanford. Calisa is married and the mother of three boys. Her favorite non-work activities are fiction writing and playing fast games of online scrabble.

Bryan joined NVIDIA in 2001 after a long stint in tech journalism with boot, Maximum PC, and Maximum Linux magazines. Prior to NVIDIA, Bryan spent time at Forte Technologies (the creators of the VFX1 virtual reality headset) and Advanced Gravis (inventors of the original gamepad). His early career trajectory took him from convenience store owner, to professional clown, to professional accountant, before he came to his senses and discovered the joys of PC gaming. Married with three dogs, and a houseful of computer equipment, Bryan also professes his love for his homegrown Canadian hockey teams and the Barenaked Ladies.

Michael Diamond is director of strategic marketing at NVIDIA, where he develops complex alliances and partnerships with large multinationals. Prior to coming to NVIDIA in 2001, he served as VP of operations for Intensys, a graphics-processor company. He serves on the boards of PCI SIG and the PC Gaming Alliance. He has authored more than 40 patents in areas such as ION, GPU Compute, SLI, GX2, Hybrid, Quadro Plex, MXM, GPU architecture, semiconductor design-manufacturing-power optimization, virtualization and content protection. He holds a B.S.E. degree from California State University, Northridge, and M.S.M.E. and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California. He has attended executive management programs at Caltech and MIT-Sloan.

Justin joined NVIDIA in 2008 with a diverse professional background, having spent five years in public accounting, six years in art and antiques and a brief stint performing energy services marketing. After receiving his first NES 8-bit at the age of seven, an intense (his wife would say TOO intense) love of digital and entertainment media was born. And he has never looked back.

On his off days, in between parenting a toddler and completing honey-do lists, Justin is an avid photographer who often assists his wife with her professional photography shoots. His dream weekend would be filled with travel abroad, spending time with family and friends, and attending a Super Bowl won by the Minnesota Vikings.

Sumit Gupta joined NVIDIA in 2007 and serves as a senior manager in the Tesla GPU Computing HPC business unit, responsible for marketing and business development of CUDA-based GPU computing products. Previously, Sumit has served in a variety of positions, including product manager at Tensilica, entrepreneur-in-residence at Tallwood Venture Capital, and chip designer at S3 Graphics. He also served as a post-doctorate researcher at University of California, San Diego and Irvine, and as a software engineer at IBM and IMEC, in Belgium.

Sumit has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has authored one book, one patent, several book chapters and more than 20 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications.

Tonie has been at NVIDIA since 2006 and oversees social responsibility programs, including managing the NVIDIA Foundation, and serving as communications and program manager for the company's Visualize Green initiative. She has 19 years of marketing and program management experience in Internet marketing, consumer technology, corporate events and philanthropy. Tonie earned her MBA in 2000 from Babson College.

In her personal pursuits, she is passionate about environmental causes and serves on the judging committee of the California Clean Tech Open. She’s currently working to build partnerships among community colleges and high schools so that low income youth can gain greater exposure to careers in the green collar and digital economies. Living in the paradise that is Northern California, she prefers whenever possible to be outside hiking, golfing or horseback riding.

Manju has been on a mission to make every game less physics-challenged since 2002 when he co-founded AGEIA Technologies and led it as its CEO. At NVIDIA, he’s part of the GPU Computing team and is engaged in ensuring that the world appreciates the CUDA architecture and continues to utilize it in making dramatic improvements to computer-intensive applications. He has been a professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and at Louisiana State University. He is an avid tennis player and racqutballer, as well as a keen follower of chess who reveres Akiba Rubinstein as the greatest chess grandmaster ever, Capablanca, Lasker and Alekhine notwithstanding.

Andrew hails from the UK and has been with NVIDIA for over eight years. Five of those years were spent heading up European PR efforts from NVIDIA’s UK office. He now enjoys a somewhat warmer climate, driving the PR programs for NVIDIA’s Tesla products out of NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked for 3dfx and before that STB Systems, so he’s been peddling GPUs for more years than he cares to mention. Andrew recently got married - twice in fact, but fortunately to the same woman, just in 2 countries. He and his wife enjoy visiting the wineries in their hometown of Livermore, eating sushi, running the occasional half marathon, re-decorating their new house and hanging out with good friends.

Paul has been at NVIDIA since 2007 and works in NVIDIA’s Corporate Marketing Group. Prior to NVIDIA, he spent five years as an editor at some of the world’s top gaming and technology publications – including Computer Games Magazine, PC Enthusiast Magazine, HotHardware.com, HardOCP.com, and FiringSquad.com.

A die-hard PC Gamer, Paul loves attending LAN Parties and is currently playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Borderlands, and Left 4 Dead 2 on his home PC. He is eagerly awaiting the release of Starcraft 2 – the sequel to his favorite PC game. When he’s not tinkering with computers, Paul likes to explore the San Francisco Bay Area, play golf, and barbeque. Paul holds a BA in Marketing from Michigan State University.

Kevin came to NVIDIA after spending six years at In-Stat’s Microprocessor Report technology newsletter, most recently as editor in chief. Before that, he spent more than 10 years at AMD in field engineering and technical marketing. Kevin’s passion is for engineering, processors and PCs – he builds all his own desktops. He’s also a PC gamer, having never developed enough thumb coordination for consoles.

Kevin grew up in New York as a Mets and Jets fan, but has adopted the local Giants, is taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the 49ers, and is beginning to appreciate hockey and the San Jose Sharks. He’s married, the step father to two boys and an avid wine collector.

Hector has been at NVIDIA for two years and brings over 15 years of comms experience to the corporate communications team. Previously he spent seven years at Porter Novelli where he was actively involved in developing communications programs for a wide range of tech clients, including HP, Rio Audio, Qualcomm, Western Digital and others. He has a passion for media, including stints as a play-by-play announcer and newspaper sports reporter.

Marinez is married and the proud father of two young kids, Ben (5) and Kayla (2). When he’s not chasing his two kids around he enjoys cooking, reading magazines, tech gadgets and following his beloved New York Yankees.

Mark joined NVIDIA in September 2009, and has a diverse background encompassing broadcasting, communications, high-tech, and Public Relations. He spent the previous seven years as director of PR with UK-based The Sage Group plc (dba Sage North America in the U.S.), a global business management software company, and the only software company listed on the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100. Mark has 14 years of experience leading PR programs for well-established, U.S.-based Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, and Sony. He’s a former news anchor at CBS and ABC radio affiliates in Chicago, and also taught a course in radio production at Columbia College while there. He also has won an International Business Award (aka a “Stevie” award) for ‘Best Communications Team’ in 2004.

Mark has a B.A. in Communications from Gannon University, enjoys spending time with his family and friends, watching professional baseball (Go Giants!), playing softball and racquetball, and occasionally riding his motorcycle. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Cindy, and their young twin boys, Michael and Jeffrey.

As NVIDIA’s Senior Product Manager for GPU Computing, Will helps define and promote platforms, libraries and developer tools for the CUDA architecture. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2003, he managed an independent game studio and developed advanced technology for the entertainment industry as a product manager and software engineer. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Willamette University and completed the Japan Studies Program at Tokyo International University.

Outside of work, Will learns something new every day, usually from his two kids. He enjoys hiking, camping, swimming, spending time with his wonderful wife, and playing The Game.

Mike has been with Nvidia since 2005 and manages the Mobile Business Unit (Tegra). He has been in the semiconductor business for over 25 years and held management positions at Texas Instruments, Cisco and an array of start-up companies. He received a BS in electrical engineering from University of Vermont and now happily resides in the much warmer weather of Northern California. He loves wine making, cycling, skiing and golf and is married with two cool kids, Charlotte (11) and Sammy (7)

Bob joined NVIDIA in early 2009 after nearly five years at HP, where he most recently ran communications related to the acquisition and integration of EDS and previously ran corporate comms. He’s held a variety of senior communications positions at Gateway, Merrill Lynch and HSBC, and previously served as a bureau chief and reporter for Dow Jones in Hong Kong, Stockholm and New York.

He reads avidly, bicycles irregularly and fathers in triplicate.

Tony has been at NVIDIA for 10 years and serves as senior vice president of content and technology, with responsibility for the strategic direction of the company’s graphics processors, the development of tools and support for developers, and managing interactions with developers. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at 3dfx, Silicon Graphics and Apple. He has unquestionably one of the coolest jobs there is, as he gets the opportunity to work with some of the most creative developers in the world on the next-next generation of products and technology.

Tony is married to a wonderful woman, and the proud father of three fantastic kids. While at home, he tries to keep up with his kids, keep the new puppy from eating the kids and fiddles with all manner of technology. One of these days he’ll find time to get back on the ice and play some hockey again.