Lightmatter Announces NVIDIA Executive Simona Jankowski as Chief Financial Officer
July 01 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Seasoned NVIDIA and Goldman Sachs financial
executive will serve as CFO of the photonic chip leader
revolutionizing AI and HPC data centers
Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today
announced the appointment of Simona Jankowski as Chief Financial
Officer (CFO). Bringing 20+ years of experience from NVIDIA and
Goldman Sachs, Jankowski will drive Lightmatter’s financial
functions and expansion, and sit on the executive team leading the
company’s mission to transform the future of computing.
“Simona’s track record leading financial strategy and investor
relations teams, deep expertise in the artificial intelligence
industry, and passion for science and engineering will allow us to
scale our operations and culture and prepare for Lightmatter’s next
phase of growth,” said Nick Harris, co-founder and CEO of
Lightmatter. "We are proud to bring on an accomplished leader at
the helm of our finance organization as we build the technology
powering the next generation of AI innovation.”
Jankowski joins Lightmatter from NVIDIA, where she was vice
president of investor relations and strategic finance during a
period of unprecedented growth for the company. Previously, she was
a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led equity research
for the hardware and communications technology sectors and managed
the Global Investment Research office in San Francisco.
"Generative AI is driving unprecedented demand for a new class
of extreme-scale data centers. Lightmatter has made foundational
breakthroughs in photonics that enable data centers to increase in
scale and performance by orders of magnitude, and with greater
energy efficiency. With a generational performance lead,
Lightmatter is poised to drive the data center photonics
revolution,” said Jankowski. “I am thrilled to join this brilliant
team of inventors, technologists, and accomplished industry
executives to help scale the company for significant growth in the
years ahead."
Jankowski’s leadership position follows Lightmatter’s $310M
fundraise in 2023, which valued the company at $1.2B, and comes at
a time of significant growth for the company. For more information
about open roles, visit https://lightmatter.co/people/join-us/.
About Lightmatter
Lightmatter is leading the revolution of computing, reducing
impact on our planet, and enabling the next giant leaps in human
progress. With the company’s photonics-enabled technologies,
Lightmatter has reinvented how chips communicate and calculate. Its
photonic interconnect and compute products simultaneously reduce
the power consumption and increase the performance of silicon
running the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
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