Celestial AI Announces Appointment of Diane Bryant to Board of Directors
24 Abril 2024 - 12:02PM
Business Wire
Industry leader joins with more than three
decades of executive leadership and board experience spanning
Broadcom, Intel and Google Cloud
Celestial AI™, creator of the Photonic Fabric™ optical
interconnect technology platform, today announced the appointment
of Diane Bryant to the Company’s Board of Directors (“the Board”)
effective April 11, 2024.
With more than 30 years of semiconductor, AI and public and
private company experience, Ms. Bryant currently serves as an
independent board member at Broadcom and Haemonetics. She
previously served on the United Technologies Corp (UTC) board of
directors from 2016 to 2020 where she was a member of the board’s
audit and finance committees. In addition to her board
appointments, she also serves as the chair of the UC Davis
Chancellor’s Board of Advisors.
Ms. Bryant was formerly the Chairman and CEO of medical
technology and data company NovaSignal. During her tenure, she
helped to raise three rounds of VC funding and departed alongside
the sale of the company in 2023.
“We are thrilled to welcome Diane to our board of directors,”
said David Lazovsky, Celestial AI founder and CEO. “Diane’s
extensive experience as a technology industry leader, CEO and board
member make her an ideal addition to the Celestial AI team. Her
leadership experience at Google, Intel and Broadcom will be
tremendous assets in this phase of commercialization and deployment
of our Photonic Fabric technology with leading hyperscale data
center customers. We are also honored to have another game-changing
leader who represents the power of women in tech. We look forward
to working closely with Diane as we continue on our path to bring
light to computing interconnectivity.”
Prior to joining NovaSignal, Ms. Bryant served as the Chief
Operating Officer of Google Cloud, where she focused on
accelerating the scale and reach of Google Cloud’s business,
including industry engagement, customer adoption, enterprise cloud
strategy and global supply chain. Additionally, Ms. Bryant was also
responsible for Alphabet’s information technology organization.
Before Google, Ms. Bryant spent 32 years at Intel, the last five of
which she served as Group President of Intel’s Data Center Group
where she helped grow the business to $19 billion in revenue in
2017. Before becoming Group President, Ms. Bryant was Intel’s
Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, responsible
for the corporate-wide information technology solutions and
services that enable Intel’s business.
“I am honored to join the Celestial AI Board at a time when the
Artificial Intelligence landscape is in desperate need of a
disruptive technology like the Photonic Fabric,” said Diane Bryant.
“AI training and inference requirements continue to grow at an
unprecedented pace, leaving hyperscalers and traditional data
centers pushed beyond the limits of performance and economic
efficiency. Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric removes these barriers
as the only industry solution with the ability to bring optical
interconnectivity to Accelerated Computing that can eliminate the
AI 'Memory Wall'. I look forward to collaborating with the
Celestial AI team and contributing my industry experience and
network to help the company continue its monumental growth.”
In addition to her extensive leadership and board experience,
Ms. Bryant has received several prestigious awards and accolades
throughout her career. Most recently in 2020, Becker’s Healthcare
named her as one of seven “mover and shaker” leaders affecting
health IT. Business Insider also ranked Ms. Bryant #6 among the
Most Powerful Female Engineers in 2018. She was also named one of
Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2015 and 2016.
Ms. Bryant continues to remain a tireless advocate for women and
underrepresented minorities in the fields of engineering and
technology. She established the Diane Bryant Engineering Student
Center at her alma mater the University of California-Davis, as
well as the Diane Bryant STEM Innovation Center at the American
River Community College. Ms. Bryant received a Bachelor of Science
in electrical engineering from UC Davis, completed an Executive
Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds
four U.S. patents in mobile computing.
About Celestial AI
Celestial AI is the creator of the Photonic Fabric, an optical
interconnect technology platform for compute and memory. The
Photonic Fabric™ provides the foundational technology for optically
scalable, disaggregated data center compute and memory to unleash
advancements in AI with sustainable and profitable business models.
If you would like to learn more about Celestial AI, please visit
the company’s website at https://www.celestial.ai/
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