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Lightmatter Announces NVIDIA Executive Simona Jankowski as Chief Financial Officer
Experienced NVIDIA and Goldman Sachs CFO to Serve as CFO of Photonics Chip Leader Revolutionizing AI and HPC Data Centers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 1, 2024–(BUSINESS THREAD)–Light MatterLightmatter, Inc., a leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced the appointment of Simona Jankowski as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bringing more than 20 years of experience from NVIDIA and Goldman Sachs, Jankowski will lead Lightmatter’s financial functions and expansion, and will be part of the executive team leading the company’s mission to transform the future of computing.
“Simona’s track record leading financial strategy and investor relations teams, deep experience in the AI industry, and passion for science and engineering will enable us to scale our operations and culture and prepare for the next phase of Lightmatter’s growth,” said Nick Harris, co-founder and CEO of Lightmatter. “We are proud to bring such a talented leader to the helm of our finance organization as we build the technology that powers the next generation of AI innovation.”
Jankowski joins Lightmatter from NVIDIA, where she was vice president of investor relations and strategic finance during a period of unprecedented growth for the company. Previously, she was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led equity research for the hardware and communications technology sectors and managed the Global Investment Research office in San Francisco.
“Generative AI is driving unprecedented demand for a new class of extreme-scale data centers. Lightmatter has made fundamental advances in photonics that enable data centers to increase in scale and performance by orders of magnitude and with greater energy efficiency. With generational performance leadership, Lightmatter is poised to drive the data center photonics revolution,” said Jankowski. “I am thrilled to join this brilliant team of talented inventors, technologists and industry executives to help scale the company for significant growth in the years ahead.”
Jankowski’s leadership role follows Lightmatter’s $310 million fundraise in 2023, which valued the company at $1.2 billion, and comes at a time of significant growth for the company. For more information about open positions, visit https://lightmatter.co/people/join-us/.
About Lightmatter
Lightmatter is leading the computing revolution, reducing the impact on our planet and enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. With the company’s photonics-enabled technologies, Lightmatter has reinvented how chips communicate and compute. Its photonic interconnect and compute products simultaneously reduce power consumption and increase silicon performance to power the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
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