Howard Weiss Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, Japan

I incorporated Pacific Teck with a mission to provide cutting edge products to the APAC AI, high end enterprise, supercomputer, machine learning and data protection markets. We provide the following solutions: job scheduling software (Slurm, Grid Engine), ThinkParQ parallel file systems BeeGFS/BeeOND, Vast Data all flash arrays, TrinityX Cluster Management software, Bright Cluster Manager, Sylabs SingularityPRO/Enterprise Container based systems, Anchore Container vulnerability scanning, Wasabi S3 cloud service, CUNO POSIX-S3 conversion, iRODS data management, Intel One API and DDT and MAP from Linaro(ARM) and Blockyforveeam Ransomware protection. Our products and people are involved in many of the largest supercomputer and large enterprise projects in the Asia Pacific Region and have deep multi-year connections with large key endusers, SIs, OEMs in the Asia Pacific Region.Pacific Teck also provides M&A advisory services for companies exploring exit opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Pacific Teck assists companies in recruiting and setting up operations in the Asia Pacific market.

Hired and managed a team of sales and technical resources around the APAC region to grow DDN's business to the next level. Major wins at some of the largest HPC centers in APAC, including ANU, IUCAA and CMMACS. Grew DDNs business over 800% in a period of 2 years.

Co-founded, member of the board of directors, raised money, hired staff and wrote business plan for Cofio Software, a provider of next generation Data Protection, Workflow and Compliance software. Sold Cofio to HDS in September 2012. Cofio‘s technology is sold today as the Hitachi Data Instance Director by Hitachi Vantara.

Responsible for building Voltaire's business in Asia Pacific. Closed strategic OEM deals with Fujitsu and won business with the some of the largest supercomputing clusters in the world. Voltaire, later acquired by Mellanox, was the leading provider of InfiniBand infrastructure used in High Performance Computing and 10GE switches targeted at the general enterprise.

Started APAC business from the ground up. Grew organization to 63 employees in 8 countries. APAC represented close to 50% of BakBone's worldwide revenues and was the most profitable region by far.

Grew Phoenix Technologies, a provider of BIOS for PCs and servers, business in Japan from a $4M run rate to $40M and a 90%+ market share.

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