Executive Team

Below are the SGI profiles of our key personnel across the business groups worldwide. If you would like to obtain an executive profile not listed here, please contact SGI Press Relations. The executive photos are for media and analyst use only.

This is an image of Robert 'Bo' Ewald Robert "Bo" Ewald
Chief Executive Officer

Bo Ewald joined SGI as CEO with over 25 years of relevant industry experience in the high performance computing markets. He is a seasoned industry veteran with a successful track record as a CEO. Prior to SGI, Bo was Chairman and CEO of Linux Networx, Inc. Earlier, Bo served as President of Human Resource Solutions of Ceridian Corporation; CEO of Scale Eight, Inc, a high performance network-clustered storage company; and President and CEO of E-Stamp. [More]

This is an image of Doug Britt Doug Britt
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Doug Britt is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for SGI. Doug is responsible for driving the company’s bookings and revenue growth for SGI solutions across all of its product and services on a worldwide basis. In this role, Doug is responsible for the direct and indirect sales organizations, sales engineering and sales operations. He is responsible for overseeing the execution of the SGI go to market strategy. [More]

This is an image of Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D. Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been with SGI for 18 years, becoming one of the chief scientists in 1998 and chief technology officer in 2001. His tenure includes work in computer graphics algorithms and high-performance computing (HPC) architectures.

He is a proponent of next-generation computer systems designed specifically for customer applications performance. To this, he advocates computational density and energy efficiency when integrating commodity components; and where appropriate, a balanced multi-paradigm approach, across a globally addressable memory, to architectural design. [More]

This is an image of Nancy Hanna Nancy Hanna
Vice President, Human Resources

Nancy Hanna joins SGI as Vice President of Human Resources, with over 25 years of HR leadership experience, primarily in the technology sector, and ranging from large global organizations to start-ups. She most recently was the Senior Vice President for the Human Resource Solutions organization, Ceridian. Nancy was VP of HR in two education software firms, PLATO Learning and Sagebrush, and previously, spent several years with Cray Research and SGI, from the mid eighties through 1998. [More]

This is an image of Kathy A. Lanterman Kathy Lanterman
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Kathy Lanterman, is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SGI, where she is responsible for managing the company's global finance organization, including finance, operations, treasury, information technology, and real estate. Prior to her appointment as CFO, she served as Vice President and Corporate Controller. In that role Kathy led financial accounting, control, planning, operations, the Company's year one SOX 404 compliance, and the successful implementation of a global financial system. [More]

This is an image of Dave Parry Dave Parry
Senior Vice President, Server Products and Operations

Dave Parry, Senior Vice President, Server Products and Operations, joined SGI in1992. He is responsible for server product development and business management, and SGI's manufacturing operations and remarketed products teams. Dave has served in a variety of executive roles at SGI leading engineering and business management efforts for server, storage and remarketed products. Previously, as SVP of Engineering for SGI's High Performance Systems Development group, Dave led hardware engineering for MIPS microprocessors, MIPS processor-based systems, and Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based systems. [More]

This is an image of Bob Pette Robert Pette
Vice President, Global Professional Services

Robert Pette is Vice President of Global Professional Services for SGI where he is responsible for managing the company’s consulting solutions line of business. In this role, Bob has developed consulting practices in four major areas: High-Performance Technical Computing, Data Management, High-Performance Enterprise and Visualization. Bob is a 19 year veteran of SGI and has held positions in Systems Engineering, Application and Solutions Development, Customer Benchmarking, Customer Services and Services and Sales Operations. [More]

This is an image of Irene Qualters Irene Qualters
Senior Vice President of Software

Irene Qualters is Senior Vice President of Software. An industry veteran with a successful track record that spans more than 20 years, Irene has led software design and development with leading systems, software and end-user organizations.

Irene is an established technologist and executive who rose through successive levels of leadership positions at Cray Research, where she was eventually named president of the company. She later moved to SGI, serving as senior vice president until leaving SGI in 1998. [More]

This is an image of Barry Weinert Barry Weinert
Vice President and General Counsel

Barry J. Weinert is vice president and general counsel of SGI. He is responsible for its global legal organization and its public policy activities. Barry previously served as Associate General Counsel. He also serves as SGI's corporate secretary.

Prior to joining SGI in 1995, Barry spent 15 years as a corporate and civil lawyer in private practice.

He earned a bachelor of science from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. degree from the University of Denver, College of Law. [More]