Gnodal Management

World leaders

Gnodal was founded in 2007 by a world-class team of infrastructure design experts with a proven track record of delivering systems to the most demanding customers. The team's 20 years of experience, working together on design, manufacture and deployment, has led to the definition of a technology that will revolutionise the data center, delivering power efficiency, scalability and high performance.  

Bob Fernander - CEO

A technology market maker with over 30 years experience in building and growing start-up and established organizations. Bob has successfully opened new markets and created new high growth revenue streams in data center and compute infrastrucure at Pivot3, StoredIQ, Surgient Networks Compaq, Sun and others. His ability to raise over $200M in growth capital over the past 10 years coupled with his delivery of over $20B in product revenues makes him uniquely suited to help Gnodal maximize its market potential.

Fred Homewood - CTO

Fred has been a chip designer for over 20 years; he specializes in the development of processors and communication systems. Fred founded Gnodal in 2007 to develop standards-based, high-performance, low-power interconnects for large data centres. Previously, Fred was a design manager at Quadrics, responsible for ASIC projects. He also worked at STMicro, first as an architect for VLIW processor design, and later as chief architect of the ST200 processor family. Additionally, Fred was an architect at Inmos, where he helped to develop the first floating point process chip, the T800 Transputer.

Tony Ford - COO

In a career extending over 20 years in High Performance Computing, Tony has a track record of delivering leading networking products to some of the world's most demanding customers. Prior to co-founding Gnodal, his experience in this challenging field range from architectural design and planning, managing software, applications and manufacturing teams, to overall responsibility for field system deployment of some of the world's largest, fastest computer systems. During this time he has worked with many of the laboratories and major data center sites in the US and Europe, and has developed business relationships with decision makers and leading developers at those sites and with channel partners.

Mike Cartwright - CFO

Mike joined Gnodal in early 2011 to bring senior strategic financial skills to the business. For over 25 years he has held board level financial and general management roles in a wide variety of businesses and sectors including communications, information technology, logistics and biotechnology. Mike has a proven track record of effective and entrepreneurial financial and commercial management of significant international businesses.