Computing Solutions-Based NextSilicon Appoints Rupal Hollenbeck as President

In her new role, Hollenbeck will lead sales, marketing, communications, partnerships, business development, and customer engagement.

Hollenbeck joins NextSilicon as the company expands adoption of its Maverick Intelligent Compute Architecture and develops its Arbel RISC-V processor roadmap.

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As AI workloads become more advanced and complex, computing infrastructure needs to adapt to improve performance, memory use, and overall efficiency.

Maverick-2 is designed to adapt to changing workloads in real time, helping customers improve performance without expensive code changes or vendor lock-in. Hollenbeck will work with the executive team to strengthen sales, build customer and partner relationships, and support NextSilicon's growth.

NextSilicon's Maverick-2 accelerator is already used at dozens of customer sites worldwide, including the Spectra supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories. Spectra recently completed full system acceptance after meeting performance, stability, and application requirements.

The company is also expanding its Arbel RISC-V processor roadmap for AI and high performance computing. Together, these efforts aim to improve computing across processors, accelerators, memory, networking and software.

“I’ve spent meaningful time with Rupal and came away convinced that she is the person I want alongside the leadership team and me for this next chapter,” said Elad Raz, Founder and CEO of NextSilicon. “We are at a critical point, scaling Maverick in HPC, expanding into AI, and building our CPU roadmap with Arbel.

"As AI systems become more agentic and workflow-driven, NextSilicon's Maverick product line is increasingly able to adapt in real time, so customers can keep pace without constantly rebuilding their infrastructure," said Hollenbeck.

About NextSilicon

Founded in 2017 by Elad Raz, Eyal Nagar and Ilan Tayari, NextSilicon builds computing systems for complex workloads. Its Maverick-2 accelerator is designed to deliver high performance with lower power use and without requiring customers to rewrite existing applications.

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