The NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program brings together graphics virtualization thought leaders and experts from across the globe, giving members exclusive access and insight into NVIDIA virtual GPU product strategy and technology. This select group engages with NVIDIA team members to help drive the future of graphics virtualization and cloud technologies by providing feedback on product strategy, shaped by their experiences and expertise. NVIDIA gives these trusted experts the information, support, and tools they need to advance the success of NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions in the marketplace and grow the community of GPU enthusiasts.
After a rigorous review process and mutual agreement on the expectations of this community, we’re pleased to announce this year’s members.
Service Delivery Manager
Technical Director for EUC
Technology Evangelist
Sr. Principal Engineer
Director of Technology
Cloud Architect
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Lead Systems/Sale Engineer
Founding Cloud Architect
Principal Architect
CTO
CEO
Senior Principal Quality Engineer
Dist. Technologist
Staff Cloud Solutions Architect
Senior Sales Engineer
Technical Marketing Manager
Sr. Solution Architect
CEO, Consultant
Architect User Experience
Sr. Technologist
Solution Architect
IT Director
Principal Consultant
Technologist EUC & AI
IT infrastructure / virtualization specialist
Technical Evangelist
President and Tech Blogger
Owner
The program recognizes the contributions of individuals who have invested a significant amount of time and resources to become experts in NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions or in related technology domains. Applicants must be industry-recognized influencers that demonstrate technical skills and hands-on expertise with NVIDIA virtual GPU and related technologies critical to graphics virtualization.
Wietze Albers works at SURF as a Network specialist. He has been working in IT for a long time now and has a lot of experience. He thinks beyond what is possible and challenges himself to bring the infrastructure to the next level. He looks forward to exploring the new possibilities which will be made available with future technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wietzealbers/
Kees Baggerman is a Technical Director for the Performance and Solutions Engineering R&D team at Nutanix Inc. In his role, Kees leads a team that develops methods for successfully implementing applications on the Nutanix platform. In addition, he also delivers customer projects, including defining architectural, business, and technical requirements, creating designs, and implementing the Nutanix solution.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keesbaggerman/
With over 20 years of experience of the VDI/Remote Apps and Desktops niche, Fredrik lives by the mantra of providing High End User Experience. His hart lies in advanced graphics.
Fredrik is currently employed at IGEL Technology, as EMEA Technology Evangelist. One of his responsibilities at IGEL Technology is designing and building demos of high-end multimedia in the world of Remote graphics. The primary focus is to provide extreme user experiences in the world of server-based computing. Recent projects have been about gaming, 3D modelling, CAD and Virtual Reality in the world of IGEL OS, Remote Sessions powered by NVIDIA.
Fredrik Brattstig has ben awarded Nvidia NCGA 2019 and 2020. Fredrik has been awarded Microsoft MVP – Enterprise Mobility 2020-2021
Fredrik very active in the IGEL Community discussing technologies and providing hints on how to solve issues. He sees a great benefit of communities, as this is a good way to spread knowledge, get input from participants using products you love working with, and finally, a good way to increase your global personal network.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrikbrattstig/
Fabricio Bronzati holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, is a technology enthusiast and has been working in the IT market since 2000 with a focus on data center infrastructure and is currently responsible for technical pre-sales and architecture infrastructure used for AI, HPC and Big Data.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricio-bronzati-a7a43223
Ronald Grass is a Lead Systems/Sales Engineer at Citrix Systems since 2008. Based in Germany he supports customers, SIs, Citrix & Technology Partners in promoting and deploying joint solutions (i.e. NVIDA vGPU with Citrix HDX-3D Pro).As a NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor and Subject Matter Expert for Citrix High Definition User Experience (HDX) technologies he has deep knowledge in the NVIDIA GPU architecture and Citrix protocol technology like encoding methods, transport protocols and optimization of these. Since the support of passthrough and hardware based GPU virtualization technologies (vGPU / GVT-g / MxGPU) in Xenserver/Citrix Hypervisor he focused on virtualization and central delivery of graphics-intensive workloads. With his experience he is able to constantly give feedback to Citrix and NVIDIA product management to improve the quality and performance of NVIDIA vGPU products and Citrix HDX-3D Pro.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldgrass
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ervik
Alexander Ervik Johnsen is a Blogger, Cloud Architect, Technology Evangelist, Author and Speaker, based in Oslo – Norway. Alexander has been working with Microsoft,Citrix and VMware products since 1997 as a system administrator, consultant, senior consultant and Product Manager.Currently, Alexander is a Senior System Engineer at Nutanix.
Marc Huppert is a Principal Architect with 20 years of experience. He is responsible for technical designs, implementation standards and architecture guidelines. He is the technical leadership of VMware Solutions at Computacenter. Marc is also a VMware Certified Instructor since several years, teaching internally and externally. He is often invited to be a guest Speaker at customer events. In Addition to the VCDX (5+6), Marc holds the following other certifications: VCP2/3/4/5/6/6.5/6.7(2019)/7.0(2020)/DCV-DTM-NV-CMA, VCIX-NV, VCIX6.5-DCV, VCI Level 2, Specialist vSAN(2017+2019), Master Specialist HCI, VMConAWS-SDDC, SD-WAN, VxRail, vExpert(2012-2021), vExpert NSX(2016-2020), vExpert vSAN (2016-2019), vExpert EUC and vExpert Application Modernization
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-huppert-b1879114/
Ben Jones is CTO of The GRID Factory, an Immersive Technology Integrator specialising in NVIDIA technologies such as CloudXR, vGPU, Omniverse and EGX Server. Ben works in areas such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing, Resource Intensive 3D Applications and Multi-GPU environments. He is a long-term contributor on the NVIDIA Forums and member of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program. Ben's career spans roles in Consultancy, Engineering and System Architecture where he spent most of those years working heavily with server-based hardware and virtualisation before shifting focus to technologies from NVIDIA.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-jones-640a4411
Rody Kossen is a Senior Principal Quality Engineer for HDX at Citrix. Previously he was an IT Consultant. With a primary focus around Workspace and delivered by technologies from Citrix, NVIDIA and Ivanti ( formally RES Software ). Rody was one of the first picking up the technology from NVIDIA to virtualize the 3D Graphics with GRID. With his previous jobs he gained knowledge about optimizing the User Experience over long-haul WAN connections. Rody is part of a community Team RGE (Remote Graphics Experts) and speaks on events like NVIDIA GTC or various Citrix events. He was also a Co-Developer of RDAnalyzer .Rody has been awarded as a NVIDIA NGCA, and was a Citrix CTP and Nutanix NTC in the past before he joined Citrix.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rody-kossen-186b4b40/
Sean is a Staff Cloud Solutions Architect with VMware, where he focuses on helping VMware’s cloud solutions partners deliver end-user computing solutions to their customers. He has 10 years of experience in IT and blogs at thevirtualhorizon.com. Sean is also well known in the virtualization community via his community work in the VMware vExpert program, and he is VMware Certified Design Expert #247
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpmassey/
Jan Hendrik Meier is an Expert for Infrastructure- and Virtualisation-Solutions with a focus on SBC/VDI environments. He has a background of more than 15 years experiences with Microsoft- and Citrix-Products. Thus he has an excellent stock of knowledge in this area and combines this with a deep understanding of the technical connections. In the last years he published several books and articles about Citrix Virtual Apps / Desktops and NVIDIA (v)GPU. Since several years he is awarded with the Citrix Technology Award and NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor. Follow him on Twitter (@jhmeier) or watch his blog (http://www.jhmeier.com).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhmeier/
Technical Marketing Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Jeff Nichols is a Cisco Unified Computing System VDI architect, focusing on Virtual Desktop and Application solutions with extensive experience with VMware ESX/Hyper-V, Virtual Desktops, Virtual Apps and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Jeff also leads the team responsible for developing reference architectures and guidance around Graphics solutions and sizing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnichols916/