Dr. Maria Iordache is a Product Management Director at Cray, responsible for Cray’s CS-Storm high-density GPU systems and for the HPC cluster software stack. Previous to Cray, Maria worked for BlueArc (acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), Brocade, and IBM in Product Management, Business Development and Alliances, covering the areas of HPC systems, storage, networking and virtualization. Maria has a computational mechanics background and was a developer at Abaqus Inc., specialized in non-linear finite element models for materials and structures. She holds a Ph.D. from CU Boulder in Computational Mechanics, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.