Gender Male
Robert B. Graybill, Chairman, has more than 40 years of HPC-related senior-level experience as a business leader, government program manager, and technology researcher.
Mr. Graybill, is also President & CEO of Nimbis Services Inc. a founding commercial partner of Silicon Cloud International. Nimbis Services is focused on lowering the
barriers to technical computing by providing a technical computing manufacturing marketplace in the cloud for small to medium sized companies. In addition to leading Nimbis, Mr. Graybill is engaged in a number of high visibility HPC competitiveness projects, application portal initiatives, cloud standardization efforts, and digital manufacturing model based engineering consulting projects with DoD and industry.
He gained valuable experience at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute working with the Council on Competitiveness following six years at DARPA, where among other assignments he headed the agency's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program. In this role he worked with firms ranging from new ventures to Fortune 100 companies, as well as with leading research institutions and academic centers.
Earlier, Mr. Graybill held increasingly responsible positions in engineering management, new business development, R&D development and other areas with companies including Westinghouse, Motorola, Sanders, and Lockheed Martin Government Electronic Systems. Mr. Graybill was the key inventor and developer of Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) that revolutionized radio rating business
