Cornelis Networks Appoints Lisa Spelman as CEO

Company Taps Data Center and AI Industry Veteran to Accelerate Growth in Enterprise- and Cloud-scale AI Market

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cornelis Networks, a leading independent provider of intelligent, high-performance networking solutions, today announced the appointment of Lisa Spelman as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective August 15. Spelman joins Cornelis from Intel Corporation, where she held executive leadership roles for more than two decades, including leading the company’s core data center business. Spelman will succeed Philip Murphy, who will assume the role of president and chief operating officer (COO).

“As companies race to evolve their infrastructure for AI workloads, one of the biggest challenges they face is stitching together the enormous amount of compute required from CPUs, GPUs and accelerators. Being able to do this in a highly efficient way will make or break an organization’s ability to compete in the world of AI,” said Spelman. “Cornelis is unique in having the products, roadmap, and talent to help customers address this issue. I look forward to joining the team to bring their innovations to even more organizations around the globe.”

Spelman joins Cornelis from Intel, where she was most recently corporate vice president in the Data Center & AI Group and general manager of Xeon Products and Solutions. During her tenure, she expanded Xeon's capabilities to accelerate AI workloads, establishing CPUs as a leading inference engine across the industry. Spelman also held several senior leadership roles within Intel’s IT organization, including infrastructure operations and engineering, as well as positions in finance, data center product and brand marketing, and sales.

“Lisa brings unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise in every aspect of building and scaling a successful business. She is already well known and trusted by our customers for her ability to help them develop the next generation infrastructure they need, which will be invaluable as we look to expand deeper into the enterprise and cloud AI markets. I look forward to partnering with her and the rest of the Cornelis leadership team as we prepare for our next phase of growth,” said Murphy.

The Cornelis Omni-Path high-performance interconnect product family is used by scientific, academic, government, and commercial organizations around the globe and is well known for its flexibility and efficiency. The company is now preparing to deliver its next generation solution, CN5000. Designed specifically for organizations deploying AI and HPC environments, this new line is engineered to address the escalating demands and scale required for modern workloads on network infrastructure. The CN5000 family is meticulously crafted to enhance performance, scalability, and agility, enabling AI infrastructure to achieve optimal throughput and efficiency, maximizing computing investment returns.

About Cornelis Networks

Cornelis Networks is a technology leader delivering purpose-built, high-performance fabrics accelerating high-performance computing, high performance data analytics, and artificial intelligence workloads in the cloud and in the data center. The company’s products enable scientific, academic, government, and commercial customers to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges by efficiently focusing the computational power of many processing devices at scale on a single problem, simultaneously improving both result accuracy and time-to-solution for their most complex application workloads. For more information, visit: cornelisnetworks.com.