Home / Company

Management Team

	Bill Blake, Chief Executive Officer Bill brings more than two decades of senior executive experience in developing high performance computing systems. He joins ISC from Netezza, where he was senior vice president of product development for the high-performance data warehouse appliance company. Bill previously was vice president of high performance technical computing at Compaq, where he led development and marketing efforts. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Lowell Technological Institute, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Bill is a member of the board of directors of supercomputing pioneer, Cray Inc. Supercomputers, as well as TotalView Technologies, a provider of analytical software for developing complex computer code.
	Alan Edelman, Chief Science Officer Alan is a preeminent authority and visionary in the area of high performance computing and numerical algorithms. He learned about parallel computing at Thinking Machines while working on his dissertation in 1988 and has worked on improving the ease of programming and the interoperability of algorithms ever since. Alan is a professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, and has served as Head of the Applied Computing Group at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He has taught courses on parallel scientific computing for over a decade, and has been involved with parallel computing applications across a broad spectrum of engineering, science, and finance. Alan has won numerous awards and prizes in the areas of mathematics, parallel computing, and teaching.
	David Gibson, Vice President of Sales David brings to ISC a proven track record of sales leadership, including over a decade in the high-performance computing sector. Most recently, David led SGI's Channels and Indirect Sales organization for the Americas, where his responsibilities included crafting SGI's distribution strategy, and managing partnerships with VARs, ISVs, and Systems Integrators. Prior to that, David ran SGI's Higher Education & Research business for the United States. Prior to SGI, David held Vice President of Sales, Channels, Marketing and Support roles with EnvoyWorldWide - national real-time notification service provider; and with AssetWorks - enterprise software provider for Physical Plant and Facilities management enterprises. David holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
	John Kreatsoulas, Vice President of Applications and Support John leads ISC's applications engineering and customer support, bringing in more than twenty years of senior technical management experience. Prior to joining ISC, John was the Director of Technical Consulting Engineering for Performance Analysis and Threading tools at INTEL®. Before that, John was the Director of the HPC Expertise Center of HP, which provided benchmarking, consultancy, training, as well as access to the latest HPC Technologies to groups worldwide. His Center and team were pivotal for most major HPC wins of Digital, Compaq and HP and for technical collaborations. John served as the Marketing Manager for Science & Research for Digital Europe, responsible for the successful launch of the Alpha systems in this market, for the development and growth of the ecosystem of scientific and technical applications in Research and Academia, and for the launch of the Alpha Farms program worldwide. Prior to joining Digital, he worked as an Engineer and a Researcher in Industry and Academia. John holds a Diploma in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and SM and Ph.D. degrees in Aero & Astro from MIT.
	Steve Reinhardt, Vice President of Joint Research Steve leads ISC's funded research efforts, where ISC works closely with leading-edge customers to finding new ways to make high-performance computing easier, more productive and more accessible to technical computing users. He is an innovator in the high performance computing industry, with accomplishments that span development of the first UNIX-based supercomputers at Cray Research Inc. in the mid-1980s to the pioneering of shared- and distributed-memory parallel programming environments. Steve has worked on parallel system designs for a number of notable projects, including as project director for the T3E project - considered by many to be one of the best parallel systems ever developed. He also helped lead development of SGI's Altix systems, which were the first strongly scalable supercomputers to be built from mass-market components (industry-standard Intel processors with the Linux operating system) and thereby affordable by a wider range of customers. Steve's major interests are in the integration of hardware, software, and application abilities to provide high system performance, and in providing easier software means to exploit the performance of highly parallel systems.
	David Rich, Vice President of Marketing David brings to ISC more than 23 years of marketing, sales and support experience in both large and entrepreneurial high tech companies. At AMD he directed the company's entry into the HPC cluster market and secured large wins such as the Red Storm system at Sandia National Laboratories and the Dawning 4000A at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center. While at AMD, he served as president of the HyperTransport Consortium, a standards organization for high-speed interconnect technology. David's earlier experience includes being the founding manager of the TotalView product line, which has become the de facto standard for parallel and distributed debugging. He served as vice president of Fujitsu System Technologies, which developed high-speed networking technology that was a pre-cursor to InfiniBand. His parallel processing experience started at BBN Technologies where he worked on the Butterfly series of computers. David received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University.
	Jes Scully, Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer As Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer, Jes is responsible for all operational, financial and administrative activities at ISC. Most recently, Jes served as Director of Finance and Sales Operation at NetSilicon, Inc., a pioneer of embedded solutions for intelligent, networked devices. At NetSilicon, Jes was a leader in the company's initial public offering (IPO) and its subsequent sale to Digi International, Inc. Prior to NetSilicon, Jes was a manager in the technology practice of Deloitte & Touch, in both Boston, MA and San Jose, CA, serving emerging private companies and public companies that included 3Com Corporation, C-Cube Microsystems, Inc., and Coherent, Inc. Jes has more than 12 years of financial management and operational experience in the high technology industry; he holds a BSBA from Boston University and is a CPA.
	Kevin Shea, Vice President of Engineering Kevin brings 20 years of leadership experience in commercial software development to ISC where he is responsible for all product development activities. Prior to ISC, Kevin led the engineering team at Ibrix, a developer of parallel file system software for high performance clusters. Earlier in his career he led the development of a heterogeneous data base replication product at Lakeview Technology and was a senior engineer at Computer Corporation of America, an innovator in high performance data base engines. Kevin holds a B.S in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire and an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University.
	Bill Strecker, Chief Technical Officer Bill is a General Partner at Flagship Ventures, and serves as Interactive Supercomputing's Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Flagship, he served as Senior Vice President, Technology & Corporate Development and CTO of Compaq Computer Corp. Before that, he was with Digital Equipment Corporation for 28 years in various executive and senior technical positions, most recently as SVP Corporate Strategy & Technology and CTO. Bill is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) W. Wallace McDowell Award for outstanding contributions to the Computer Art. He is a past board member of CMGI, holds 16 U.S. patents, and is the author of numerous technical publications. Bill currently serves as Director of Flagship portfolio companies IntelliVid, Interactive Supercomputing, Maptuit and SiCortex, and he works closely with Kovio and Revivio.