Eric Gardner

About Eric Gardner

For the past 20 years, I’ve worked at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) — bringing cutting-edge solutions to market across engineering, product management, marketing, and sales enablement roles.A few things about me: My SUPERPOWER: a rare blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and strong soft skills I get fired up about tackling complex problems using data Exceeding expectations is my norm due to my strong agency, grit & adaptability I have 9+ years of experience in AI & data science spanning machine learning and deep learning I\'m all about the team\'s impact, not personal recognitionI’m most excited about startup-minded companies where I can apply AI and data science to solve meaningful challenges. If you have an opportunity that fits, or just want to brainstorm ideas, let’s connect!

Experience

1. Senior Director, Product Marketing

   Cerebras

   Jan 2025 — Present · Portland, OR, US

   For the past 20 years, I’ve worked across engineering and product roles to help bring many breakthrough AI & HPC processors to market, but never anything close to wafer-scale. Then again, there’s never been a workload as demanding and promising as artificial intelligence.By breaking the ~50 year convention of dicing wafers into individual chips, Cerebras’ brain-like wafer-scale engine has shattered bottlenecks in memory, memory bandwidth, communication, power, density and more.This has not only made it possible to train models faster and more efficiently, but also enabled world record inference performance for open source models like Llama3.1-70B, Llama3.1-400B & DeepSeek, and proprietary chat assistants like Mistral AI’s words/sec announcement last week.I’m excited about helping scale this technology, to maximize its positive impact today, and as AI continues to grow more intelligent. Let’s go!

Education

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy, Entrepreneurship, General Management and Finance

  2008 — 2010

• Duke University

  Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Electrical & Computer Engineering

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Internal & External Communications
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Data Center
• Competitive Analysis
• Microprocessors
• Product Management
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Product Marketing
• Software Development
• Entrepreneurship
• High Performance Computing
• New Business Development
• Semiconductors
• Financial Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Public Speaking
• Financial Modeling