Curtis Davis

Curtis Davis has 20 years of experience in Management, Engineering and Operations for multicore computing, networking, graphics and semiconductor markets. He was a Co-founder, President, and COO of Ageia Technologies, a major physics processing chip manufacturing and middleware company. Ageia was bought by nVIDIA, where Ageia’s technology is adopted in the entire GPU product line today. At nVIDIA, Curtis was the VP of PhysX and led the largest CUDA and OpenCL development teams in the world.

Prior to Ageia, Curtis was a Cofounder, CEO, and VP Engineering of Celox Networks where he managed very large teams building and deploying network aggregation switches from the ground up. He has worked in engineering and management roles in MinMax Technologies, MEMC and Caterpillar. Throughout his career he has focused on multicore and many-core high performance systems where superior performance is realized through algorithm development, and targeting software to specific architectures.