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Scarlett Goumi :: Director of Operations and Pricing

Scarlett is an Operations and Pricing specialist with 15 years of experience in semiconductors. After working in France and Singapore in Supply chain, Operations, Sourcing at HP and STMicroelectronics, Scarlett relocated in the Bay Area and expanded her experience to customer support. The last 4 years were focused on pricing strategic management with implementation of a new pricing and quoting system at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. 

As an advocate of cross-functional collaboration, she has worked on multiple company-wide IT systems deployments including ERPs and CRMs. At Groq, her scope covers all operations and pricing. 

Adrian Macias :: Machine Learning Systems Specialist

A principal technologist with advanced degrees in both Communications and Signal Processing, Adrian Macias has over 20 years of experience in every aspect of development. He began his career as a NASA engineer, and then became a tech startup entrepreneur before moving to technology and leadership roles at major fortune 500 semiconductor companies. As a machine learning system specialist, Adrian is passionate about helping others to use Groq’s technology to build elegant solutions for machine learning workloads. When Adrian isn’t traveling the globe supporting Groq customers, he enjoys living in San Diego with his family.

Geert Rosseel :: Chip Manager

Geert has extensive experience building semiconductor ICs and IP in Silicon Valley and brings a wealth of IC, hardware development, and project management knowledge to Groq. Since completing his Ph.D. in EE at Stanford University, Geert has held various individual contributor, management, and VP roles at Silicon Valley startups such as MicroUnity, Sonics, Pixelworks, Arteris, and Samplify, as well as large companies such as Nvidia, LSI, Avago, and Seagate Technology. He was a co-founder of Sonics, the inventors of Network-On-Chip technology for complex SoCs (acquired by Facebook). Geert holds a MSEE from Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PhD in EE from Stanford University, and an MBA from Berkeley-Haas School of Business.

Max Baker :: Distinguished Engineer

Max has over 20 years experience in leading design of semiconductors and software, with over 20 tapeouts under his belt. He has worked for a variety of companies from startups to Fortune 500: including Xilinx, Rambus Cryptography Research, and Tabula. Previous projects have included lead roles in the design of radiation-hardened FPGAs and hardware debug of time-division multiplexed datapaths. Max bootstrapped and ran an IP business unit across multiple geographies creating side-channel protected cryptographic cores for ASICs, leading roadmap creation, team development, and technical direction. Max earned a masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Outside of work you will find him on the ski slopes, or driving around in circles at one of the local racetracks.

Rebekah Leslie-Hurd :: Software Engineer, Compiler Team Lead

Rebekah is a computer scientist with a love of computer architecture and the software systems that make hardware work. Although her career has been devoted to these low-level systems, including designing hardware architecture extensions at Intel, Rebekah prefers to approach these areas through the lens of higher level abstractions and modern computer science techniques: coding in functional programming languages and making use of strong static types. As the head of the compiler team, Rebekah’s focus is on leveraging Groq hardware to achieve best-in-class performance for machine learning workloads. When she isn’t working, you’ll find Rebekah riding her bike, traveling the world, and raising two small humans.

Teme Kahsai :: Head of Software

Temesghen Kahsai is the Head of Software at Groq. Prior to joining Groq, Temesghen previously worked at AWS as a Senior Applied Scientist, where he developed logic-based automated reasoning tools for cloud security applications, and at NASA Ames Research Center as a Research Scientist in the Robust Software Engineering group. He also worked in the Resource Prospector Lunar Mission as a Software Engineer developing the rover flight software. During his tenure at NASA, he was affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, where he led several research projects funded by NASA, NSF and DARPA. Temesghen holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wales in Swansea and a MSc from the University of Udine (Italy). In his spare time, Temesghen enjoys spending time teaching his son speaking his native language, Tigrigna, soccer, and going on bike rides.

Estelle Hong :: Chief of Staff to CEO & Head of Strategic Operations

Estelle is a jack-of-all-trades by day, and a National Guardsman by night, bringing more than a decade of leadership experience from the Army and Intel Corporation. Estelle graduated from West Point with an Engineering Management degree and was commissioned as an Engineer Officer. Later, she received her MBA at Cornell University and joined Intel’s Accelerated Leadership Program, driving results in business HR, retail analytics, and the memory business. Estelle’s passion for driving disruptive technology and working with incredibly smart people aligns nicely in her opportunity to help scale Groq become an iconic company. Outside of work, she likes to snowboard, travel, play guitar, or hang out with her friends in San Francisco.

Jennifer Hwang :: Hardware Verification Manager

Jen is an engineer at heart. She has spent her entire career building ASICs, with over 30 successful tape-outs under her belt. Starting at MIT, Jennifer graduated with her Masters and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering. No stranger to startups, she was a part of Silicon Spice startup, which was acquired by Broadcom. Jen became a Director of Engineering responsible for Broadcom’s cellular processor division for hardware verification with a multi-site global team. At Groq, she is leading the Hardware verification team creating ASICs for machine learning. Specifically, she loves to roll up her sleeves and up to her elbows in the details of how things work. In her free time, she supports her family — reading, skiing, and serving as a parent-volunteer for her two growing kids at school.