Technology >> CEO Interviews >> February 5, 2001
SHAHIN KHAN is Vice President of Product Marketing and Planning System
Products Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. As Vice President of Product
Marketing and Strategic Planning, Mr. Khan is responsible for driving
the productization and marketing strategy for Sun's range of Enterprise
Desktop and Server Systems. Mr. Khan joined Sun in 1996 as the Director
of Marketing for Sun's Data Center and High Performance Computing
Product Group. He was responsible for marketing, strategic planning, and
applications engineering for Sun's Starfire server (Sun Enterprise
10000) and High Performance Computing (HPC) product line. In addition,
he managed Sun's high-end programs for commercial data center and high
performance technical computing, including management of Sun's large
scale computing center in Beaverton, Oregon. Prior to Sun, Mr. Khan was
Director of Marketing Programs at Cray Research Inc.'s Business Systems
Division. Before Cray, he was with Floating Point Systems (FPS) as
European Marketing Manager, based in the UK and site manager at the
Cornell National Supercomputer Facility. He began his career with IBM's
Data Systems Division, working on the LCAP distributed memory parallel
processing architecture. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
Engineering from Cornell University and is the author of several papers
on high performance commercial and technical computing. Profile
and then explaining just what the company is all about at the present
time?
Mr. Khan: Sun has been a company in existence
