Richardson, Texas – Steven J. Wallach is currently an advisor to CenterPoint (www.centerpointvp.com) Venture Partners, Dallas, Texas and Vice President of Technology of Chiaro Networks (www.chiaro.com), Richardson, Texas. He is also a consultant to the U.S. Department Of Energy for the ASCI program (High Performance Parallel Processing).

Prior to CenterPoint, Wallach was the chief technology Officer of Hewlett-Packard (HP), Convex Division. Convex Computer was acquired by HP on December 20, 1995 and became the Convex Division of Hewlett-Packard. Additionally Wallach was the Visiting Friedkin Professor of Management at Rice University (Houston, Texas, joint appointment in the Graduate School of Management and Brown School of Engineering, Computer Science) for the 1998 and 1999 academic years.

Wallach founded Convex Computer Corporation, along with Robert J. Paluck, former chairman and CEO, in 1982. Paluck is currently the General Partner of CenterPoint Ventures. Wallach was the chief designer of the Convex C-Series, the world’s first affordable supercomputer, as well as the Exemplar Scalable Parallel Processor (SPP), HP/Convex’s new high performance system for technical and commercial applications.

Prior to Convex, Wallach served as product manager at ROLM, Santa Clara, California, for the 32-bit mil-spec computer system. From 1975 to 1981, he was manager of advanced development of Eclipse Systems for Data General Corp., Westboro, Massachusetts, where he was the principal architect of the 32-bit Eclipse MV superminicomputer series. From 1970 to 1975, he was a senior engineer with Raytheon Missile Systems Division, Bedford, Massachusetts. He designed various mil-spec signal and general purpose processor systems.

Wallach hold 33 patents in various areas of computer design and is featured prominently in Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Soul of A New Machine.

Wallach received a B.S.E.E. From the Polytechnic University, New York (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn), and a M.S.E.E. From the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Boston University. He serves on the advisory council of the School of Engineering at Rice University, and on the external advisory board for the Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), a joint effort of Rice, Caltech, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wallach also served on the Computer Systems Technical Advisory Committee (CSTAC) of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is a member of the board of directors at Polytechnic University, New York. He received the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Polytechnic.

Wallach was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1995. He was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Board on High Performance Computing, Communications, and Networking (PITAC). He is chair of the High-End subcommittee of PITAC. He was also appointed to the advisory committee for the Hybrid Technology Multithreaded Architecture (HTMT) a US DOD funded project to develop the concepts for a PETAFLOP computer and has served as an adviser to NSF on the Teragrid Project.