John Spiers President and CEO, IntelliProp

IntelliProp, Inc. appointed John Spiers as CEO and president.

He is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience pioneering data center innovations and leading fast-growth organizations, and will drive new CXL advances for the data center.

He succeeds co-founder and long-time CEO Hiren Patel, who will serve the company as CTO.

“Composable infrastructure transformation is one of the hottest and most promising areas for game-changing advances in data center performance, efficiency and economics,” said Spiers. “IntelliProp’s trailblazing approach to Compute Express Link (CXL) technology unlocks the memory bottleneck and enables next-gen performance and efficiency for AI and ML applications. IntelliProp’s technology will drive data center transformation and change the economics of data centers by substantially lowering capital costs and power requirements.”

He brings industry knowledge, product strategy expertise and a track record of leadership and success. He has co-founded numerous technology companies, including venture-backed LeftHand Networks, where he served as CTO and helped establish it as a market leader in virtualized, highly scalable SANs, and NexGen Storage, where he served as CEO and led the company’s development and launch of the industry’s first SAN architected for flash memory. LeftHand Networks and NexGen Storage were acquired by Hewlett Packard and Fusion-io, respectively. Most recently, he has held top leadership roles across engineering, marketing, sales, and strategy for IT infrastructure providers, including Sandisk, Pivot3 and Liqid.

“IntelliProp’s incredibly talented engineering team has developed CXL-based products that provide a large technological and time-to-market advantage. I am excited to work with our customers, employees, partners, and investors to drive the next phase of IntelliProp’s innovation, growth and success. We are on a mission to bring these products to market,” he added.

“We are thrilled to have John at the helm as we take the next step in our technology innovation and growth trajectory,” said Patel. “He recognizes the immense potential of CXL to boost performance, efficiency and sustainability while reducing overall system cost – and his technology expertise, tenacity and business acumen will be extremely valuable in driving our strategy forward.”