Kevin Deierling is Senior Vice President of NVIDIA Networking. He joined NVIDIA when it acquired Mellanox. There he served as vice president of marketing responsible for enterprise, cloud, web 2, storage, and big data solutions. Previously, Deierling served in various technical and business management roles including chief architect at Silver Spring Networks and vice president of marketing and business development at Spans Logic. Deierling has contributed to multiple technology standards through organization including the InfiniBand Trade Association and PCI Industrial Manufacturing Group. He has more than 25 patents in the areas of security, wireless communications, error correction, video compression, and DNA sequencing and was a contributing author of a text on BiCMOS design. Deierling holds a BA in solid state physics from UC Berkeley.