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.
IT Architect
Technical Director for EUC
Technology Evangelist
Sr. Principal Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Sr. Sales Engineer
Principal Architect
CTO
Lead Consultant
Technical Marketing Principal
Staff Cloud Solutions Architect
Senior Sales Engineer
Technical Marketing Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sr. Solution Architect / North Central Regional Lead and co-practice lead for EUC
CEO, Consultant
Sr. Systemconsultant
Sr. Technologist
Solution Architect
IT Director
Principal Consultant
Technologist EUC & AI
IT infrastructure / virtualization specialist
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 the University of Groningen as a HPC 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 a is Sr. Sales/Systems 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, Senior Solution 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 a Co-Founder and CTO of The GRID Factory, a UK based 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 vGPU Forums and is one of the founding members of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program. Ben built his career with roles in Consultancy, Engineering and System Architecture and spent most of those years working heavily with Server hardware and remoting technologies such as Citrix and VMware before changing focus to NVIDIAs technologies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-jones-640a4411/
Rody Kossen is an IT Consultant, his primary focus is around Workspace. 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 job he gained knowledge about optimizing the User Experience over long-haul WAN connections. He is also certified and experienced in Citrix SD-WAN to further improve the User Experience. Rody is part of a community Team RGE (Remote Graphics Experts) and speaks on events like NVIDIA GTC. He is also a Co-Developer of RDAnalyzer. Rody has been awarded as a Citrix CTP, Nutanix NTC, and NVIDIA NGCA.
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/
Jeff Nichols, 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/
Scott Osborne AKA “Oz” has been with Choice Solutions (NPN partner) since March of 2011 and has been working in IT specializing in Microsoft and Citrix solutions for nearly 20 years. Oz currently serves as the North Central Regional Lead and Senior Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions. Oz is a Citrix Specialist for Networking/Data Center, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) and serves as co-lead for both the Omaha Metro Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) and Nebraska Nutanix User Group (NUG) user groups. He specializes in the End User Compute (EUC) space with Citrix and Microsoft solutions involving virtual application, server, and desktop technologies and has diverse experience with most industry-leading technologies that are required for these types of mid to large enterprise EUC environments such as monitoring, FSLogix, Multi-Factor Authentication (Duo, Azure MFA, etc.), Virtual GPU (vGPU) and many other leading partner solutions. Oz is a co-lead for the Citrix practice at Choice Solutions as well as the Choice Solutions champion for NVIDIA GPU-based solutions for the data center; in general, vGPU design and implementation is a personal passion as it pertains to virtual apps and desktop environments. He is involved in all phases of customer projects; from health checks and assessments to design and planning to the ‘in-the-trenches’ build phases. He also has in-depth experience in the Health Care vertical working with and designing Epic Hyperspace environments on Citrix. Finally, in general, he focuses more heavily on multi-site environments that could potentially include a hybrid of on-prem private cloud resources along with Azure and/or Citrix Cloud resources and components. His latest work in the EUC Cloud landscape includes Windows Virtual Desktop/multi-session Windows 10 (WVD) delivered from Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottosborne1/
Ian is passionate about helping the media and entertainment industry virtualize complex graphics workloads in the cloud. As Technical Marketing Principal at Teradici, he engages the community via presentations, panels, workshops and demos at events like NAB, GTC, FMX and SIGGRAPH or in partnership with public cloud vendors, MESA or the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA). Previously, he spent over 10 years advancing desktop streaming architectures, innovating remote UX evaluation tools and experimenting with the majority of popular remote display technologies. Ian is a longstanding IEEE member with 30 years expertise in real-time processing pipelines, credited with a variety of publications, patents and trade articles. Former roles include CTO at Spectrum Signal Processing and several design, systems and applications engineering positions in the industry. Off-hours, you’ll find him on his bike or alongside his wife enjoying the trails of his hometown Vancouver, Canada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-main-285296/
Principal Sales Engineer
EUC computing expert transitioning to Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and data analytics with extensive experience in the oversight, planning, design and delivery of diverse technical applications and systems. Combined hands on sales and systems engineering experience with demonstrated competencies in oversee the complete sales cycle, including account management, solutions development, design, deployment and user training. Dedicated and actively involved in enhancing the user experience through the development and delivery of effective training materials for sales engineers, clients, partners and user groups. Recognized for advanced leadership skills with strengths in training, mentoring and ongoing development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-tokeshi/
Workspace Architect
Magnar is a Workspace Architect, blogger, speaker, and community tool developer with 18+ years experience in End User Computing. Based in Bergen, Norway, he has worked with Citrix, Microsoft, and VMWare products since 1999 and with NVIDIA products since 2012. Magnar has a passion for technology, computer visualization, and virtual reality, as well as experience in 3D modeling, graphic manipulation, and video effects. He has assessed, designed, implemented, and supported many virtual graphics solutions based on NVIDIA technology for small to large companies in the oil and gas industry in Norway. Magnar shares his knowledge, tools and experience on his blog, www.virtualexperience.no, www.gpusizer.com, www.teamrge.com, and speaks at numerous industry conferences including Citrix Synergy, Briforum(GeekOut365), Citrix User Group and TeamRGE events.
As a Virtualization-enthusiast, Rasmus has more than 18 years of experience with operating, implementing and optimizing Citrix virtualization environments. He has been working enthusiastically with GPU’s since 2013 on the evolving graphics virtualization technologies and how to leverage these with the single goal of providing the best user experience possible. These interests have led to presenting sessions at international events like Nvidia’s GTC Europe but also at community driven events like E2EVC and the Citrix User Groups, besides national, Danish, Conecto TechTalks as an employee and Sr. Systemconsultant of Conecto. His primary motivation is the optimization: How to design and configure an optimal solution for the end users. He is certified in all relevant Citrix products as well as a member of the independent group TeamRGE (Team Remote Graphics Experts) group. A group dedicated to examine and test graphics remoting technologies. He was also among the founding members of the NGCA – Nvidia GRID Community Advisors.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmus-raun-nielsen-6592726/
Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around End User Computing geek. He contributes to Nutanix product development and analyzes EUC technology trends that impacted current and future of work. Ruben is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017 and VMware vExpert from 2008-2018. He is based in the Netherlands where he lives with his wife and three kids. If you have feedback or questions for Ruben, send him an email at ruben.spruijt@nutanix.com or follow him on Twitter @rspruijt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rspruijt
Solution architect and product manager for VDI solutions As a solution architect I daily collaborate with commercial area of my company to design and deploy complex VDI solutions based on VMWARE stack ( ESXI / HORIZON VIEW / VSAN ) and NVIDIA vGPU technology. I daily work with top customers like: Scavolini, Riello, Luxottica, Autovie Venete, Inglass, University of Trieste and Padua, Trieste Airport.. etc to deploy, manage and plan future infrastructure upgrades. I'm focused on Vmware technology (VCP-DTM 2020, VCP-DCP 2019 and VSAN Specialist 2019) to design and deploy the best of hyperconverged infrastructures. I’m certified in NVIDIA solution with VGPU Technical Curriculum since 2016.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstrizzolo/