Kim Hammonds Joins Scala Computing's Advisory Board
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Scala Computing is pleased to welcome Kim Hammonds, most recently the Group COO of Deutsche Bank AG, to our Advisory Board. She will help accelerate product execution and growth of the firm. Scala Computing is leading the effort in expanding the enterprise adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications on the Cloud, orchestrated by its leading-edge intelligent Scala Compute Platform (SCP).
Ms. Hammonds' vast expertise across four industries will help guide Scala Computing in both the near and long-term.
About Kim Hammonds
Kimberly L. Hammonds most recently served as the Group Chief Operating Officer of Deutsche Bank AG where she was the third woman in the company's 148-year history to serve on the Management Board.
With a distinguished career spanning industries including Automotive, Technology, Aerospace & Defense, and most recently, Financial Services, Hammonds' leadership experience extends across product engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, purchasing, operations, and information technology.
Prior to her tenure at Deutsche Bank AG, Hammonds served as the Group Chief Information Officer for the Boeing Company and has also held executive positions at Dell Corporation and Ford Motor Company.
Hammonds is a member of the Society of Women Engineers. She is the Founder and President of The Zoe Foundation, which provides art programs for cancer patients. She has actively supported the American Cancer Society, raising over $5 million for the organization. She was recognized by Crain's Business as 'Women to Watch' in 2011.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Red Hat, Cloudera, Tenable, Box and Zoom. She recently founded a company, Mangrove Digital Group, which provides technology and business transformation consulting expertise to Fortune 100 company's CEO and Board of Directors.
Scala Computing Co- Founder, Shiv Kumar, stated: "We are thrilled to have someone of Kim's global stature involved in our initiative. Kim will bring tremendously valuable experience and perspective to our efforts, and guide our future investments and initiatives in the rapidly growing HPC-on-Cloud space."
Joining the Scala Computing Advisory Board, Ms. Hammonds said:
"What made me want to get involved with Scala Computing is that they are a very unique start-up - in a very short period of time, they have established credibility with their clients and have built a software platform that is easy to deploy, use and manage. The Scala team is not afraid to experiment and use new technology to continually adapt to client requirements, thereby helping clients realize quantifiable savings as part of their digital transformation journey."
About Scala Computing
Scala Computing is focused on enabling organizations to leverage the power of Big Compute - easily, cost-effectively and efficiently on the cloud. Scala Computing removes the barriers to entry and complexity of high-performance computing so that engineers, researchers, and developers across industries can focus on their core drivers of value: their applications, not the compute environment.
The Scala Computing team has received several prestigious awards and grants for research in High Performance Computing. These include awards from the U.S. DOE, NSF, NIH, ARO, NYS, China's Ministry of Science, HPC2, Siemens, Oracle, and Intel, amongst others.
Scala Computing counts NY City's Department of Environmental Protection as one of its key clients where the Scala Compute Platform was successfully deployed to run water quality models on the cloud.
SOURCE Scala Computing
