Dr. Marc R. Hannah, Ph.D.
Past V. P. SGI and Chief Scientist, Computer Science

Dr. Hannah co-founded Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) and spent 16 years there helping grow the company from a small startup to a multi-billion dollar computer hardware and software company with products from desktop workstations to large, multiprocessor supercomputers. At SGI, Dr. Hannah was chief architect for most of the company’s low-end and mid-range graphics systems. He worked closely with Jim Clark to initiate projects to deliver SGI technologies into consumer applications, including the Nintendo-64 game machine for Nintendo and Orlando Interactive TV trial for Time-Warner. Since leaving SGI, Dr. Hannah has done consulting projects for SGI and other companies, and dabbled in a few start-ups, including Omniverse Digital Solutions, a minority focused, web-based media company, and Pulsent Corporation, a technology company developing compression technology for video delivery over the Internet. Dr. Hannah has been granted 13 patents.