Brian Sparks is a senior director of marketing for the NVIDIA InfiniBand and Ethernet networking platforms. With over 20 years of experience in the data center networking and security market, his responsibilities have included various marketing and communication leadership roles, and strategic HPC and networking ecosystem enablement. He currently holds Marketing Working Group Chair positions in the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and the Unified Communication Framework (UCF) Consortium. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from San Jose State University.