Rupal Hollenbeck

NextSilicon, a company developing computing solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, has appointed Rupal Hollenbeck as President and Chief Business Officer. She will oversee the company’s go-to-market operations, including sales, marketing, communications, partnerships, business development, and customer engagement and success.

Hollenbeck joins as NextSilicon expands commercial adoption of its Maverick Intelligent Compute Architecture and continues development of its Arbel RISC-V processor roadmap. The company says the appointment is intended to strengthen its commercial organization as it expands its presence in AI and HPC.

“As AI systems become more agentic and workflow-driven, NextSilicon's Maverick product line is increasingly able to adapt in real time, so customers can keep pace without constantly rebuilding their infrastructure,” said Hollenbeck. “What drew me to the company is a tremendously talented team that has proven that the technology works in production and delivers true global impact.”

Hollenbeck has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry, with roles spanning enterprise computing, semiconductors, AI, cybersecurity, sales, marketing and global operations. Before joining NextSilicon, she was President of Check Point Software Technologies. She previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Cerebras Systems and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Oracle. Earlier in her career, she spent more than 23 years at Intel in executive positions in the United States and Asia, including roles in global data center sales and Intel China.

NextSilicon’s Maverick-2 accelerator is deployed at dozens of customer sites worldwide, including the Spectra supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories. Spectra recently achieved full system acceptance under the Vanguard program after meeting performance, stability and application-compatibility requirements for mission-relevant workloads.

The company is also developing Arbel, a server-class RISC-V processor architecture for AI infrastructure and HPC. The roadmap covers a 64-core enterprise processor, while the Maverick platform focuses on adapting compute resources to changing software workloads.

According to NextSilicon founder and CEO Elad Raz, Hollenbeck’s appointment comes as the company expands Maverick in HPC, enters AI markets and develops its CPU roadmap.

“We are at a critical point, scaling Maverick in HPC, expanding into AI, and building our CPU roadmap with Arbel. Rupal brings the experience, judgment, and ambition we need, and I’m incredibly excited to build the future of compute with her,” said Raz.

With Hollenbeck leading the commercial organization, NextSilicon plans to focus on customer adoption, partnerships and expansion of its computing platforms as it moves toward higher-volume deployments.