Eric Oberhofer VP North American Sales, GigaIO

GigaIO Networks, Inc., creator of next-gen data center rack-scale architecture for AI and HPC solutions, expanded its leadership team, hiring Eric Oberhofer as VP North American sales and Matt Demas as CTO, global sales.

Eric Oberhofer joins the company with 15 years of sales and business development experience and a track record of building and managing sales organizations, accelerating ARR growth, and partner development. Most recently, he served as VP, public sector at Liqid, a storage and composable solutions provider. Prior to that, he served as Federal CTO and DoD sales director at Pivot3, was the MD, consulting at Iron Bow Technologies, a systems integrator, and led a global sales team at Dell EMC.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been attracted to category creators and category disrupters,” he said. “The old way of thinking about data center infrastructure is changing, and I am very excited about the tremendous power of composable infrastructure to disrupt the legacy infrastructure market. The incredible growth of AI and the move to heterogeneous computing offer a once-in-a-decade opening for a new approach. GigaIO is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this opportunity and help our customers reduce their spending and improve their systems’ flexibility and agility. GigaIO has built a great team, and I look forward to helping to capitalize on our unique and powerful solution.“

Matt Demas brings 2 decades of experience in sales and solutions architecting. He has built federal, healthcare, and education-based vertical solutions at companies like Dell, where he was a ssenior solutions architect, and Pivot3, where he led regional sales. Prior to joining GigaIO, he served as field CTO at Liqid. He will lead GigaIO’s field support organization.

“GigaIO’s breakthrough approach to disaggregate the entire rack and use PCIe, not only to attach resources to servers but as a routable network, opens up fantastic new options for our customers to fully address composability and tackle network congestion. The completely open architecture of FabreX is welcome by every customer who prefers their choice of system components and critical cluster management software,” he said. “The company is at an inflection point, and I believe GigaIO is well-positioned to capitalize on the momentum they’ve created over the past couple of years. I look forward to driving that growth as we continue to expand our presence in the market.”

“GigaIO has experienced tremendous growth in 2021. Adding Eric and Matt to our team reflects our commitment to strengthening our go-to-market strategy,” said Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO. “Eric and Matt both have excellent track records of developing business, building important ecosystem partnerships, and have demonstrated the ability to construct the systems, process, and teams to help us accelerate a non-linear growth strategy.“