Talent Density at Groq

At Groq, we’ve hired a talent dense team. From our interns to our Board of Directors, we’re made up of exceptional talent who use their experience to leave their mark on Groq technology. Learn more about Groq leadership below and if you’re interested in joining us, check out our open positions.

Leadership Team

Jonathan Ross is the CEO and founder of Groq. Groq is the innovator of the novel LPU compute architecture, accelerating workloads in AI, ML, and HPC through their product portfolio ranging from GroqCard™ to GroqRack™. Prior to founding Groq, Jonathan began what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the first generation TPU chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Jonathan studied under Yann LeCun of the New York University Courant Institute.

Claire Hart is a strategic legal executive and business advisor with over 20 years experience steering innovative technology companies at various stages of growth through unchartered legal, business and cultural challenges and opportunities. She is adept at tackling novel legal challenges and forging strategic partnerships in new technologies and evolving markets as well as guiding companies through high stakes situations. Claire has previously led legal teams at Google, was the Chief Legal Officer at Blizzard Entertainment, and most recently built out the legal, people and business affairs functions at Genies, an avatar technology startup. Outside of her day job, Claire is a frequent speaker, teacher and mentor, particularly focused on creating opportunities for early career legal professionals.

Allison Hopkins has 35 years of experience as an HR business leader, advisor and investor working with start-ups, pre-IPO and Fortune 500 companies. Her choices have mostly led her to companies that were attempting to change an industry and/or in hyper-growth mode.

The most notable organizations she was a part of are E*Trade, Netflix, Palo Alto Networks and thredUP. While being the Chief People Officer at thredUP she was also the COO for 2 years and led operations which included HR, distribution centers, customer service, logistics & industrial engineering. She was also part of the team that took thredUP public.

Prior to thredUP she was the SVP of HR at Palo Alto Networks and also assisted in taking them public. She served as Vice President of Talent at Netflix, and Head of Human Resources at E*TRADE. During her tenure all three companies experienced hyper global growth (Ranging from 180-10,000 people, $250M-$7B in revenue). She was also the Founder and CEO of Core Elements, Inc., which provided human resources and internal communication consulting to global tech companies. Core Elements was nominated 6 years in a row as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in Silicon Valley.

She was nominated & elected to Leadership California and was awarded the YWCA’s prestigious Manager of the Year award. She has had numerous published articles and speaking engagements on the impact of human resources, communication and culture in business.

Sunny Madra, an experienced entrepreneur, has a track record of successful exits for the startups he founded. These exits include the sales of Autonomic to Ford, Xtreme Labs to Pivotal, and most recently Definitive Intelligence to Groq. Currently, Sunny leads GroqCloud.

Previously, Mr. Moazami was the founder and Managing Partner of Seif Capital, a technology investment and advisory firm in Silicon Valley. Mr. Moazami is senior advisor to Blackstone and Siguler Guff ($20 Bil AUM), Further, Mr. Moazami is an operating partner at Kestrel Partners in London.

Until recently he served as the Chairman of Astrea Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: ASAX). He serves as a board member or a Sr. advisor to many VC-backed startups in Silicon Valley such as X-Energy, Axiom Space, Vcinity, Edgecloud Link (ECL), Ethernovia (AMD and Marvell-backed) and several others.

Mr. Moazami’s previous roles include founder and CEO of Stanford Business Systems (SBS – acquired by Accenture), 12 years at Cisco, the last four of which were in the leadership of their Emerging Markets division. He then co-founded CNTP, a global, multi-stage, technology investment firm with $300 mil AUM, investing in security, cyber security, big data analytics, gig economy and SaaS applications. A sample of his early-stage investments are Matterport (IPO), DoorDash (IPO), Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), and Bracket Computing (acquired by vMware). Mr. Moazami also served on the Board of a telecommunications company, Global Capacity, where he helped oversee a turnaround of the business leading to a $150m acquisition by GTT.

Ian Andrews is the Chief Revenue Officer at Groq. Previously as CMO of Chainalysis, he built a global team achieving 4x growth in customers and revenue. At Pivotal Software, Ian served as SVP of Products & Marketing, leading the company from launch through IPO to the $2.7B acquisition by VMware. His earlier roles at Opsware and Aster Data established his track record of scaling innovative technology companies. With expertise spanning both sales and marketing, Ian specializes in bringing transformative products to market and building high-performing teams across AI infrastructure, blockchain analytics, and enterprise software.

Board of Directors

Jonathan Ross is the CEO and founder of Groq. Groq is the innovator of the novel Tensor Streaming Processor compute architecture, accelerating workloads in AI, ML, and HPC through their product portfolio ranging from GroqCard™ to GroqRack™. Prior to founding Groq, Jonathan began what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the first generation TPU chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Jonathan studied under Yann LeCun of the New York University Courant Institute.

Youngme Moon is the Donald K. Douglas Professor of Business at Harvard Business School, where her research sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and marketing. A renowned branding and marketing strategist, she is the author of the bestselling book, Different, and has sold more than two million case studies on companies sprawling the digital economy. She has spent more than a decade advising, investing in, and guiding fledgling companies with disruptive potential. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mastercard, Unilever, Warby Parker, Sweetgreen, Shoop, Basic.Space, and others. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from Yale. Prior to joining HBS, she was on the faculty of MIT.

Andy Rappaport is Managing Partner of Skyline Public Works, Chief Investment Officer of SPW Investments, and Treasurer of the Rappaport Family Foundation. He has spent more than 35 years founding, investing in, and guiding scores of transformative start-up companies. From 1996 until starting his retirement in 2012, Andy was an active partner at August Capital, a leading technology venture capital firm, which he helped grow from $100M to more than $2B under management. Prior to joining August, Andy ran The Technology Research Group, a Boston-based global strategy consulting firm he founded in 1984. Andy is a noted authority on the business and economic implications of changing technologies and has written and spoken extensively on the topic. Technology companies Andy co-founded, led investments in, and/or served as a board member of including Actel, Atheros Communications, Luxtera, MMC Networks, Silicon Architects, Olema Oncology, Silicon Image, and Transmeta. Andy and his wife Deborah are active philanthropists, focusing primarily on causes of equity and social justice. They are the founders of the Minnesota Street Project (www.minnesotastreetproject.com), a 120,000 square foot multi-building arts campus in San Francisco founded to provide an affordable, vibrant hub for the visual arts in an otherwise unaffordable city. Andy is also an active musician, and video and sound artist. He and Deborah split their time between San Francisco and Martha’s Vineyard.

Dr. Ford Tamer served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Inphi for nine years until its recent $10B+ merger with Marvell. Under Dr. Tamer’s stewardship, Inphi became the trusted market leader for electro-optics solutions for cloud and telecom operators, increasing revenue from these customers more than 20 times during his tenure to an annual run rate of about $750 million.

Prior to Inphi, Dr. Tamer served as CEO of Telegent Systems. Before this, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure Networking Group, which he grew five-fold to $1.2 billion in revenue within five years, making that business the uncontested leader in infrastructure silicon solutions. He also served as co-founder and CEO of Agere Inc., which pioneered Network Processors (now at Intel as the Ixia product line). After Agere was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics, Dr. Tamer became Vice President at Agere Systems, a spin-off from Lucent. Earlier in his career, Dr. Tamer co-founded, operated, and assisted in the growth of system management software, artificial intelligence, and renewable energy businesses. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Marvell, Teradyne, and Sentons. Dr. Tamer holds a MS and Ph.D. from MIT.

Samir Menon, Managing Director, is a member of the BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP) group within BlackRock Alternative Investors. He is responsible for evaluating and executing on private equity direct and primary fund investments.

Mr. Menon was previously a Vice President at Firelight Capital Partners, where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing buyout and growth equity investments in consumer & retail companies. Prior to business school, Mr. Menon was an investment professional at BlackRock Private Equity Partners in London and Princeton. He began his career with PEP in 2006. Mr. Menon currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cofense, Qumulo, PLNTF Holdings, and Vesta and is an observer to the Board of Directors of Flexe and Venture Metals.

Mr. Menon earned a B.A. degree in Economics from Emory University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

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