A 15-year Intel veteran, Ben Bennett was most recently Intel's director of HPC marketing programmes functioning in a global role and responsible for the HPC deal pipeline of over $100 million. His expertise ranges from market and technology analysis, commodity processor evangelization and future product definition to organisational and business development and supply chain operations. A 20 year parallel processing veteran, Ben Bennett is also an Advisory Board member for the International Supercomputing Organization.

With over 25 years experience in the computer industry, Robert Nikora is responsible for leading the continuation of the build out and leadership of the worldwide sales organisation. Robert Nikora brings to ClearSpeed diverse experience in both large public companies and early stage start-up organizations and has served in senior and executive management roles in HPC companies including Cray Research, Stellar Computer and Alliant Computer Systems.

"Both Robert and Ben have exceptional backgrounds in ClearSpeed's core markets and add highly relevant experience to the executive team as we scale up our worldwide operations", stated Tom Beese, ClearSpeed CEO. "We are very pleased to have recruited such talented executives during this time of significant growth for the company."