Team
The people building ANE and Waveform.
Vectris brings together researchers and strategic leaders with experience spanning national laboratories, accelerator software, large-scale computing, corporate governance and technology commercialization.
Leadership
Executive leadership.
Co-Founder · Chief Technology Officer
Vinod Tipparaju
Vinod Tipparaju has held several senior engineering and architect roles involving high-performance computing (HPC) and graphics processors across AMD, Graphcore, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and other places. He has also contributed to high-end computing for the U.S. as a senior computing scientist at national laboratories. He served as a Master Principal AI/GPU Architect at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and as a GPU/AI Platform Architect at Bytedance. Mr. Tipparaju has published more than 70 scholarly papers and acquired 6 patents. He has led multiple R&D projects in topics covering HPC, GPU, ML, and compilers, resulting in significant performance improvements and funding opportunities.
Mr. Tipparaju builds on his extensive expertise in hardware and software co-design, parallel systems, performance measurement and runtime environments in creating products and systems that help Vectris lead the way in developing the field of AI compute yield economics.
Chief Engineer & Mathematician
Joel Malard, PhD
Dr. Joel Malard has more than three decades of experience building high integrity systems for large-scale computing and optimization. Dr. Malard has deep expertise in computational mathematics and software spanning sparse linear algebra, adjoint methods, multi-objective optimization (Pareto ranking), parallel and distributed computing, simulation of complex systems including power networks, market dynamics (Black-Scholes-Merton), and circuit level modeling. He holds a PhD from McGill University.
Dr. Malard leads the engineering of bounded runtime and certification layers that enable infrastructure teams to recover high-value capacity from existing AI infrastructures. The process turns wasted compute into measurable gains in usable capacity, margins and revenue without retraining models or changing hardware.
Founder & Executive Chairman
Philip White
Philip White is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Vectris. He brings more than three decades of experience building, financing, and leading companies across technology, private equity, healthcare, and telecommunications.
At Vectris, he leads corporate strategy, capital formation, governance, and commercialization, with a focus on building the company into a leading AI infrastructure platform.
Board
Governance and strategic oversight.
Founder & Executive Chairman
Philip White
Board focus: Company formation, governance and strategic development.
Philip White serves on the Vectris Board and advises the company on formation, governance, strategic development and long-range institutional planning. His board work supports Vectris as it advances from technical validation through commercialization and organizational scale.
Board Member
Rick Clementz
Current: Board Member — Vectris Labs; Investing Partner — The Nine; Product Safety Officer and Deputy General Counsel, Vehicle Safety and Regulatory Compliance — Lucid Motors; Legal Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Legal Operations — Lucid Motors
Selected past roles: General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief of Staff and Board Member — Mercedes-Benz U.S. International; manufacturing and supplier-quality engineer — Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
Rick Clementz brings engineering, legal, governance, investment and industrial operating experience to the Vectris Board. His career combines manufacturing engineering with responsibility for corporate governance, regulatory compliance, product safety, legal strategy and major industrial expansion. At Vectris, he advises on governance, institutional development, strategic transactions, risk management and the disciplined scaling of a deep-technology company.
Board Member
Todd Watson
Board focus: Strategic capital, go-to-market execution, ecosystem relationships and executive scaling.
Todd Watson serves on the Vectris Board, advising the company on strategic capital formation, go-to-market execution, commercial partnerships and executive scaling. His mandate is to align commercialization and financing with Vectris’s silicon-validation milestones, then support capital formation, market entry, strategic relationships and CEO-candidate mapping as the company advances.
Board Member
William Smith
Board focus: Legal strategy, contracts, corporate governance and risk.
William Smith serves on the Vectris Board and acts as counsel to the company. A partner at Salser & Smith, a Birmingham, Alabama trial firm practicing personal injury and business litigation, he brings courtroom and commercial-dispute experience to the board. At Vectris, he advises on contracts, corporate governance and legal risk as the company advances from silicon validation to commercial deployment.
Board Member
Bill Poole
Board focus: Public finance, capital strategy, financial governance and state and economic-development relationships.
Bill Poole serves on the Vectris Board. He served as Director of the Alabama Department of Finance and the state chief financial officer from 2021 to 2026, where he stewarded more than $7 billion in bond financing and debt restructuring, worked with the Governor on budgets totaling more than $75 billion in state funds, led financing for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project and oversaw the distribution of more than $2 billion in federal Covid-19 relief. A member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Tuscaloosa from 2010 to 2021, he chaired the House Education Trust Fund Budget Committee, guiding the rebuilding of school funding after the Great Recession without proration. He chairs the Innovate Alabama Board of Directors, is a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama and practiced law in Tuscaloosa. At Vectris, he advises on capital strategy, financial governance and public-sector and economic-development relationships as the company advances from silicon validation to commercial deployment.
Why this team
Why this team can build ANE and Waveform.
Supercomputing and distributed systems
High-Performance Computing
Experience across large-scale parallel and accelerated computing systems.
GPU architecture and tooling
Accelerator software
Experience spanning ROCm, AMD, Graphcore and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Mathematical control laws
Optimization and adaptive systems
Parallel mathematics, constrained multi-objective optimization and complex adaptive systems.
Governance and commercialization
Building the institution
Corporate governance, strategic capital, industrial operations, formation and go-to-market execution.