Liqid Expands Leadership in Finance, Federal and Public Sector, and Product

Liqid, Inc. has expanded its leadership in finance, federal channel sales, product management, and more.

The expansion of the company’s leadership team includes finance veteran Steve Tucker, who brings more than 30 years experience to his role as Liqid CFO. He joins as the company doubled its staff Y/Y and continues to expand its sales footprint across industry verticals in the public and private sectors. The company continues to grow its federal & public sector channel sales team with new appointments, as well as its product development leadership team to meet the demand for firm’s Matrix CDI software-based solutions.

“We’re excited about the phenomenal growth we’ve experienced over the last year, and we welcome Steve and the new addition to our sales and product leadership development teams at a critical moment in our company’s history, in which disaggregated composability is becoming the infrastructure of choice for AI and other high-value applications,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder. “With decades of experience and expertise, across industry verticals and geographies, from start-ups to blue chips, these seasoned pros are the perfect candidates to help expand the footprint of the award-winning Liqid Matrix to data centers around the world.“

New CFO Guides Liqid’s Global Expansion
As Liqid has doubled the size of its workforce Y/Y to address the need for composable software for the evolving, AI-driven IT landscape, Tucker joins Liqid from insurance software provider Vertafore. He has held multiple senior leadership roles in finance and consulting, responsible for capital markets, merger & acquisition, process improvement, accounting, and contract negotiations in complex high-growth markets, including SaaS and other recurring revenue industries.

At Liqid, he will grow the team overseeing the finance activities, including business planning and development, forecasting, budgeting, capital markets, and contract negotiations as the company continues to grow the global footprint of Matrix CDI software, as the company doubled its total workforce since September 2020.

“I look forward to working with the energized, hungry Liqid team to continue to increase our overall share-of-voice in the evolving data center, develop new go-to-market strategies, and further advance our status as the leader in all things composable,” Tucker said.

Federal and Public Sector and Product Management: Liqid Leadership Delivers Liqid Matrix Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Software to Data Centers Worldwide
As new applications transform the digital landscape, AI draws edge facilities and core systems ever-closer via innovation in the cloud and on-premises networking, Liqid remains committed to the ongoing optimization of the Matrix CDI software platform. Matrix delivers agility, efficiency, and performance for increasingly diverse compute environments, use cases, and customer profiles.

Furthering these efforts, Liqid welcomes the following team members
to head up Liqid’s federal & public sector teams, as well as product management:

• Beth Turman, executive director, public sector sales: She delivers more than 35 years experience in public and commercial sector leadership. With a data center sales focus, she has engaged at senior levels with visionaries in energy, defense, education, enterprise R&D, while working with large teams of regional and national sales leaders to deliver solutions. She is responsible for a team of experienced sales leaders to offer Matrix software solutions to the marketplace. She will focus on expanding Liqid’s successes in the federal government and greater public sector. She is also active in mentoring women in technology and serves as a volunteer in her local food distribution community.
• Gary Billingsley, director, federal sales: He has more than 15 years experience working with channel, OEM, and federal system integrator partners to develop profitable revenue streams within and across many public sector accounts, including FBI, NSA, and DIA Navy/Army. He will work with the federal sales team to grow public sector business, collaborating with relevant partners at all levels of government to bring Matrix CDI software to their customers.
• Ben Bolles, executive director, product management: He brings more than 25 years delivering customer experience and product development across industries from manufacturing to telecom to enterprise computing. He will be responsible for roadmap, product strategy, product management, and technical marketing for the Matrix platform.

“With Beth, Gary, and Ben, Liqid brings even greater depth of knowledge and experience to its already extraordinary team, with unmatched insight into customer needs across vertical markets, horizontal applications, and global geographies,” said John Spiers, chief revenue officer. “As unprecedented demand for performance efficiency and resource agility sweeps across the planet, driven by warp-speed advancements AI, HPC, edge and cloud computing, Liqid Matrix software delivers unprecedented data agility and performance efficiency for high-value applications.“

Liqid Matrix: Transformative Platform Adapts for AI, HPC, Edge and Cloud
With horizontal use cases in AI+ML, HPC, cloud and edge computing, Liqid’s software disaggregates the server components in the data center-CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, storage memory technology, and NICs-and places them into resource pools. Intuitive GUI, REST API, or CLI enables an end user to create servers ins from those resource pools to deploy applications on-demand.

There’s no need to physically reconfigure servers, manually add additional devices, or overprovision expensive hardware to support heavy workloads. Connect, click, and compose a bare-metal server on-the-fly.