Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development
Jan Silverman joined Cray in November 2005 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development. In this capacity, he drives the company’s business and marketing strategies and leads Cray’s product management and marketing organizations. Silverman has 20 years of computer systems experience and previously held senior management and R&D positions at SGI, Hewlett-Packard, Apollo Computer and Lockheed Martin. At SGI, he was Senior Vice President of worldwide marketing focusing on industry-specific business development, product marketing, IP and OEM licensing. Before joining SGI, Silverman held senior product marketing positions in Hewlett-Packard’s server and workstation groups and also led the company’s early Internet program and microprocessor strategy. At Lockheed Martin, he was a senior software engineer and holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. degree in computer science from Lehigh University.