Peter Ungaro vs Charles Liang

Peter Ungaro

CEO of Cray

BIO: Mr. Peter J. Ungaro has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005 and March 2005 respectively. Mr.Ungaro served as Senior Vice President for sales, marketing and services of Cray Inc. from September 20, 2004 to August 2005. Mr.Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide deep computing sales for IBM since April 2003. He led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. Mr. Ungaro coordinated IBM solutions teams that included sales, technical, marketing and product development personnel. Mr. Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide high performance computing sales of IBM since 1999 and before then he held a number of other sales leadership positions after joining IBM in 1991. Mr. Ungaro was responsible for creating and implementing IBM's worldwide marketing and sales strategy, expanding opportunities for current and future Cray products, collaborating closely with product development and other technical leaders and continually enhancing the capabilities of Cray's global sales force. Mr. Ungaro has been a Director of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005. Mr.Ungaro received a B.A. in business administration from Washington State University in 1990.

Charles Liang

CEO of Super Micro Computer

BIO: Mr. Charles Liang founded Super Micro Computer, Inc. in September 1993 and has been its Chief Executive Officer & President since September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for two decades and granted many server technology patents. Subsequent notable patents include a redundant cooling power supply technology (1998) and a method and architecture for monitoring the health of servers across data networks (2000). He served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of OSRAM GmbH since September 1993. From July 1991 to August 1993, he served as President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., and from January 1988 to April 1991, he served as Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies Inc., and Suntek Information International Group. He worked on high-tech projects and designed several outstanding products such as a microprocessor-based PH and ion analyzer. He has been the Chairman of the Board of Super Micro Computer, Inc. since September 1993. Mr. Liang has been a Director of Super Micro Computer, Inc. since September 1993. He served as a Director of OSRAM GmbH since September 1993. His studies at Arlington focused on Advanced Digital systems and he developed a working model for a medical expert system that diagnosed illnesses. He holds many coveted technology patents, some of which were awarded while he was still in university. Mr. Liang studied M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.