Team
Meet Our Team
The TORmem team has extensive experience from across the data center landscape. Together, our founders have set out a vision for the company which is driven by solid engineering, attention to detail, and product-market fit to ensure that we can solve the challenges of disaggregating the memory architecture in the modern data center together, from enterprise to hyperscale.
Our Founders
Thao Nguyen – CEO
Thao brings a wealth of experience in hardware design and procurement, which has allowed the team to create and refine our vision to meet the needs of the biggest, most strenuous customers.
Equinix – Principal Hardware Engineer
Packet – VP Hardware Engineering – Distinguished Hardware Engineer
Facebook – Director of OCP – Hardware Engineer – MQE Pioneer
NetApp – Technical Staff – Compute and Storage Engineering
IBM – Product Engineering – VLSI Applications and Logic Design
Steven White – CTO
Steven’s expertise in hardware and systems engineering is well-regarded across the industry, and drives much of how our vision is implemented both at large production scale and in design detail.
Vapor IO – Co-founder and VP Hardware Engineering
Renasar Technologies – Co-founder and Hardware Architect
Nebula – Principal Hardware Engineer/Hardware Architect
S-Squared Microsolutions – Co-founder and Electrical Engineer
Scott Burns – VP of Research and Development
Scott has been highly active in the internet industry for over 20 years, across servers, the data center and network providers, with a specialization in creating custom software for new products.
Equinix – Principal Product Manager
Packet – Senior Director of Research and Development
BQ Internet – Founder
Our Development Team
Andrew Hodges – Senior Software Engineer
Andrew has been developing high-quality software for over 15 years, with a well-renowed focus on performance and robustness in creating market-leading products and software services.
ngrok – Senior Software Engineer
AdRoll – Senior Software Engineer
Packet – Senior Software Engineer
Oracle – Member of Technical Staff
Carl Perry – Senior Systems Engineer
Carl has been improving the infrastructure of the internet for over 20 years, including building IaaS cloud systems, automating hardware and enabling innovative new platforms in the data center.
Single Board Computing Inc – President
Member of Technical Staff – Confluera
RackN – Senior System Architect
Sphere Cube LLC – Founder
Our Executive Board Advisors
Timothy Lyons – Executive Board Advisor
Tim possesses deep experience in business and corporate development, emerging technology, partnerships, and strategy, having spent over 20 years helping the tech ecosystem innovate together.
Prudential – VP, Head of Emerging Technology
VMware – Industry Managing Director, Office of the CTO
Intralinks – SVP, Strategic Business Development
Merck – Executive Director, Digital Innovation and Outreach
Bank of America – SVP, Technology Innovation Portfolio
Morgan Stanley – Head of Technology Business Development
Our Philosophy
TORmem is composed of experienced engineers who have worked broadly across the data center industry for several decades, with skill sets that cover all of the bases needed to understand the market, identify the opportunities to meet the needs of that market, and to effectively create products required to address those same opportunities.
The team believes in operating as a small, focused team which is cost-effective, tightly aligned to a consistent shared product vision, and able to deliver to agreed deadlines. Team members will be chosen specifically for these key attributes, to make sure that we do not incur unnecessary costs, delays or complexity in meeting the market need.
Why Disaggregated Memory?
One memory for all. A single disaggregated bank of high-speed memory for the whole rack.
Our technology enables In-Memory Computing (IMC) at data center scale.
Optimize cost, accelerate current workloads, and enable new ones with us.