Chris A. Malachowsky — Co-Founder, NVIDIA Fellow and Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations

Chris Malachowsky co-founded NVIDIA in April 1993. He has been instrumental in managing, defining, and driving NVIDIA’s core technologies as the company has grown from a startup to a global Fortune 1000 company with a worldwide reputation for engineering and execution excellence. Previously, Mr. Malachowsky held engineering and technical leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Malachowsky is a recognized authority on IC design and methodology and has authored close to 40 patents, most of which relate to his work in graphics. Mr. Malachowsky holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Florida and an M.S.C.S. degree from Santa Clara University.