Robert Csongor

Rob Csongor is a forty-year technology veteran, most of it spent working as a technology executive in Silicon Valley for NVIDIA. He is one of the original employees of NVIDIA Corporation, joining the company in 1995 with 20 employees and no product or revenue, to launch NVIDIA’s first product, NV1. When he recently retired from NVIDIA in 2020, NVIDIA had grown to a market cap of $350 billion, with close to 20,000 employees worldwide, and a $20 billion revenue run rate. In his time at NVIDIA, Rob held numerous technical and business roles as a member of NVIDIA’s executive staff, reporting directly to Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO, ranked recently as the #1 CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review.

Csongor served in a variety of positions at NVIDIA, primarily as Vice-President and General Manager, starting and growing new NVIDIA businesses including NVIDIA’s GPU notebook, embedded, and automotive businesses, focusing on artificial intelligence and self-driving cars. He also served four years as NVIDIA’s corporate vice-president of worldwide marketing, as well as three years heading up NVIDIA’s investor relations group to better educate wall street on NVIDIA’s strategies and techniques. Altogether, Rob has worked for close to forty years in the GPU computing, artificial intelligence, minicomputer, and personal computer industry at companies including NVIDIA, Adaptec, and other computer companies.

Csongor testified in 2017 as an expert witness to the United States Senate subcommittee in Washington DC on Accelerating Self-Driving Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. He has spoken at numerous worldwide industry conferences and seminars on a wide variety of technical and business topics ranging from visual computing, and GPU computing to advancing AI solutions for robotics and self-driving cars.

Csongor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University.