Rajeeb Hazra is vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager for the Enterprise and High Performance Computing (HPC) Platform Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for leading Intel’s Enterprise IT and Technical Computing solutions segments in the data center. Before assuming his current position, Hazra was the director of Supercomputing Architecture, where he was responsible for strategic research and development engagements with Intel's supercomputing customers. Earlier in his Intel career, he served as the director of the Systems Technology Lab in Intel Labs (then called the Corporate Technology Lab), where he oversaw R&D in hardware and software-related systems technologies. Hazra also previously served as technical assistant to Intel's chief technology officer. He joined Intel in 1994 as a software engineer in Intel Architecture Labs, working on video compression/decompression technologies. Before coming to Intel, Hazra was with the Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company based at NASA's Langley Research Center. Hazra holds 16 patents in signal processing and has contributed numerous technical publications to refereed technical journals and conferences. He was honored with an Intel Achievement Award in 2000 for breakthroughs in multiple generations of industry-leading video-compression technologies. Hazra earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Jadavpur University, India. He also holds a master's degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science, both from The College of William & Mary.

Florence Rabier first joined the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) as a consultant during her PhD in 1991, then as a scientist in data assimilation for 6 years in the 1990s. She came back from Météo-France in October 2013 to take up the position of Director of the newly formed Forecast Department. She is the Director General of ECMWF since January 2016. Dr Rabier is also an internationally recognised expert in Numerical Weather Prediction, whose leadership has greatly contributed to delivering major operational changes at both ECMWF and Météo France. Dr Rabier is especially well known within the meteorological community for her key role in implementing a new data assimilation method (4D-Var) in 1997, which was a first worldwide. Her career so far has taken her back and forth between Météo France and ECMWF. Dr Rabier has experience in both externally-funded and cross-departmental project management. She led an international experiment involving a major field campaign over Antarctica, in the context of the International Polar Year and THORPEX. She has been awarded the title of “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur”, one of the highest decorations awarded by the French honours system.

Steve Scott serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for guiding the long-term technical direction of Cray’s supercomputing, storage and analytics products. Dr. Scott rejoined Cray in 2014 after serving as principal engineer in the platforms group at Google and before that as the senior vice president and chief technology officer for NVIDIA’s Tesla business unit. Dr. Scott first joined Cray in 1992, after earning his Ph.D. in computer architecture and BSEE in computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was the chief architect of several Cray supercomputers and interconnects. Dr. Scott is a noted expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks. He holds 35 U.S. patents in the areas of interconnection networks, cache coherence, synchronization mechanisms and scalable parallel architectures. He received the 2005 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award and the 2005 IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Scott was named to HPCwire’s “People to Watch in High Performance Computing” in 2012 and 2005.

Petteri Taalas
• Born 1961 in Helsinki, Finland, married, 2 sons (-90, -96), 3 daughters (-93, -93 & 2000)
• PhD in Meteorology, Helsinki Univ., physics department 1993
• Management training: Helsinki Univ. Economics 1998 & 2004
Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization. Elected for a mandate from 2016 to 2019
Director-General of Finnish Meteorological Institute 2002-2005, 2007-2015
• Government weather, climate and marine institute, ~680 employees, annual budget ~78 M€
o Doubling of external funding level 2002-2015 (now 40 % of budget)
o Best government institute in Finland 2005-2015, High customer and staff satisfaction
o One of the leading atmospheric research institutes in Europe
o Emphasis on supporting sister organizations world wide, 2015 in 58 countries
Director of Development and Regional Activities department of WMO, 2005-2007
• Staff in Geneva, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Kenya, Bahrain and Samoa
o Reorganization of the department with more emphasis on serving the needs of Members
o Establishment of Resource Mobilizing and Least Developed Country Offices,
Research professor on Remote Sensing/FMI 2000-2002, Head of research, Scientist 1986-1999
• Coordination of Earth Observation research and development of FMI with ~30 employees
• Satellite, global change and atmospheric pollution research and development projects funded by ESA, EUMETSAT, NASA, European Commission and national agencies
• Vice-chairman of European Commission Panel on Atmospheric Science 1995-2002
• Author of ~50 peer reviewed scientific publications on satellites, climate and pollution
International activities/memberships
• Member of WMO Executive Council 2008-
• Chairman of EUMETSAT Council 2010-2014 (European Meteorological Satellite Org.)
• Chairman of EUMETNET Council 2003-2005 (European Meteorological Infrastructure)
• Member of ECMWF Council 2002-5, 2007-15, (European Weather Centre)
• Principal Delegate of Finland to IPCC 2007-15 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
National activities/memberships
• Chairman of the board of Univ. of Eastern Finland 2010-
• Alumni of the year of University of Helsinki 2012
• Member of the Finnish Science Academy 2010-
• Member of Finnish Technology Academy 2015-
• Member of the advisory and board of Directors of Fortum Energy Company (turnover 6.2b€) 2010-15
• Member of the Finnish Space and Arctic boards 2003-5, 2009-15
Languages: Finnish (mother tongue), English (Excellent), German (moderate), Swedish (moderate), French (basics), Russian (basics)

Peter Ungaro serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ungaro joined Cray in 2003 as the senior vice president responsible for sales and marketing. He was appointed president in March 2005 and chief executive officer in August 2005. Prior to joining Cray in 2003, he served as vice president of worldwide deep computing sales for IBM, where he led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. Prior to that role, he served in a variety of sales leadership positions at IBM starting in 1991. Mr. Ungaro received a B.A. from Washington State University.

Ryan Waite serves as Senior Vice President of Products, responsible for product management for Cray’s compute, storage and analytics products. Before joining Cray in 2014, Mr. Waite was the general manager of the Data Services group at Amazon Web Services, where he oversaw five big-data services, including product management, engineering and operations. While at Amazon Web Services, he directed the Amazon Kinesis, AWS Fraud Detection, AWS Data Warehouse, AWS Metering and Tag Metadata teams. Before that, Mr. Waite spent 20 years at Microsoft where he was most recently the general manager for its high performance computing team. In that role, he led Microsoft's HPC business and an engineering team that was responsible for the architecture, development, test and program management of Windows HPC Server and its integration with Azure. Mr. Waite holds several technology patents.