Groq CEO and leadership

Estelle Hong is a Chief of Staff to CEO & Head of Strategic Operations at Groq and is based in Mountain View, California. She has worked as Platoon Leader at United States Army; Rear Detachment Executive Officer at United States Army; and Strategic Business Development Manager, HR at INTEL CORP. Estelle works or has worked as Technical Assistant to Rob Crooke, Senior VP & GM of Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group at INTEL CORP. She studied at West Point between 2003 and 2007 and Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management between 2012 and 2014.

Groq is hiring!Jonathan Ross is Groq’s founder and CEO. Prior to founding Groq he began what became Google’s TPU effort as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the original chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

Adrian Mendes is responsible for sales, marketing, operations, finance and administrative functions at Groq. He has over 20 years of technology management experience in small start-ups and multinational corporations. Prior to Groq, Adrian co-founded a finance company that brought a consortium of leading technology companies together with infrastructure investors to solve energy needs in SE Asia. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Adrian spent most of his career at Cypress Semiconductor leading teams across supply chain operations and product management where he drove significant revenue generating initiatives and major organizational transformations. Adrian’s Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering is from the University of Waterloo.

Dennis is an expert in scalable vector architectures for high-performance computing. Previously at Google, he worked on topologies for energy-proportional networking, and Cray, where he was a Sr. Principal Architect on several Top500 massively-parallel supercomputers. Dennis has published over 20 technical papers in areas of memory systems, interconnection networks, and fault-tolerant systems. He holds over two dozen patents spanning 20+ years of experience at Cray and Google. Dennis holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Minnesota and is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM Computer Society.

Groq is hiring!Jonathan Ross is Groq’s founder and CEO. Prior to founding Groq he began what became Google’s TPU effort as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the original chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

Groq is hiring!Jonathan Ross is Groq’s founder and CEO. Prior to founding Groq he began what became Google’s TPU effort as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the original chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet.