Cliff Grossner

Cliff Grossner Ph.D. currently serves as Chief Innovation Officer at the Open Compute Project Foundation, where responsibilities include driving awareness, overseeing training programs, and guiding technology initiative research. As an Advisory Board Member at Nesh Technologies, Inc., guidance on company positioning and market strategy is provided. Previous roles include Senior Director Research & Technology Fellow at Omdia, where leadership was provided for Cloud and Data Center research practices, and Senior Research Director & Advisor at IHS Markit, focusing on Cloud, Data Center, and SDN research. Earlier experience encompasses strategic marketing and product management roles at Alcatel-Lucent and Sesame Networks, among others. Cliff Grossner holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from McGill University and an M Com SCI in Computer Science from Concordia University.