Top NVIDIA Employees

Chris Malachowsky, born around 1958, is an American electrical engineer. He co-founded the computer graphics company Nvidia. Malachowsky grew up in Oakhurst, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1976. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1983. He obtained an M.S. from Santa Clara University in 1986. In 2008, Santa Clara University gave him the Distinguished Alumni Award. The University of Florida College of Engineering awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013.

David B. Kirk works for NVIDIA as a computer scientist. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. From 1989 to 1991, Kirk engineered for the Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard. From 1993 to 1996, Kirk served as Chief Scientist and Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. Kirk was NVIDIA's chief scientist from 1997 to 2009 and an NVIDIA Fellow. In 2002, Kirk received the ACM SIGGRAPH Comp.

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-born American businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded Nvidia in 1993. Huang became president and CEO of the company from its start. He attended Oregon State University. He moved to California afterward. Huang earned a master's degree from Stanford University. Forbes listed him as the 61st highest paid CEO in a list of U.S. CEOs in 2008. He was also one of the wealthiest Asian Americans.

John Brennan brings over 25 years of experience to leading the hardware engineering team at Azul. John developed highly scalable computer systems, reaching up to 1024 CPUs. He also led the development of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Before Azul, John served as the Vice President of Engineering for Professional and Embedded Solutions at NVIDIA. There, he led a team that built standalone Graphics solutions for professional workstations. Before NVIDIA, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Chelsio communications, where he led both the

Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962, is an American musician and songwriter. He is famous as a drummer with exceptional talent. Lee became famous as a founding member of Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band that dominated the 1980s music scene. Lee was born in Athens, Greece, but grew up in California. His parents gave him a drum set as a Christmas gift when he was four. This early start set up his future success. Lee's career with Mötley Crüe started in 1981. The band quickly gained n