I/ONX Appoints Former IBM Executive Steven Eliuk as CEO

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC), a leading provider of heterogeneous AI systems, today announced the appointment of Steven Eliuk as Chief Executive Officer. Eliuk joins I/ONX to lead the commercial scaling of Symphony, a platform designed to eliminate the "Host Tax" and provide more mature infrastructure for inference while preserving an open ecosystem of compute.

Eliuk previously served as Vice President of Data Intelligence and Single Threaded Owner (STO) at IBM, watsonx data intelligence. His technical background includes serving as the CTO for AI, Data & Governance at IBM, and he was the lead for distributed multi-GPU algorithms at Samsung Research America—where he developed custom multi-GPU infrastructure with Cirrascale and the industry's fastest distributed model parallel DL framework.

"I/ONX solves the biggest hurdles in enterprise AI: efficiency and vendor lock-in," said Steven Eliuk, CEO of I/ONX. "Our technology allows enterprises to break free from legacy hardware constraints while achieving up to 70% cost reductions, enduring enterprise AI ROI. I am excited to lead a team that is redefining the economic reality of AI infrastructure."

Eliuk is also a globally recognized leader in AI Ethics and Governance. He served on IBM’s AI Ethics Board as a voting member for over 5 years. Additionally, he was an Executive Fellow for the World Economic Forum (WEF), contributing to the AI Governance Global Initiative. He earned his PhD in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, a premier hub for AI research. Immersed in the university’s influential Reinforcement Learning community, Eliuk studied alongside pioneers like Dr. Rich Sutton, 2025 Turing Award Winner—an experience that informs his goal-oriented approach to hardware and software orchestration for Enterprise AI.

"Steven is the ideal leader to bridge high-performance engineering with enterprise-scale deployment," said Justyn Hornor, Founder and CTO of I/ONX. "His expertise in both distributed systems, Enterprise AI, and global governance will accelerate our mission to deliver an open, efficient AI future."

The appointment follows the launch of Symphony SixtyFour, which recently established new foundations for acceptable watts and diverse accelerator choice for AI workloads.

About I/ONX

I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC) is the pioneer of heterogeneous AI infrastructure. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, I/ONX is redefining the AI lifecycle by eliminating the "Host Tax" of legacy architectures. The I/ONX flagship Symphony SixtyFour platform consolidates up to 64 accelerators into a single node, reducing rack-scale TCO by 50% or more. By dramatically lowering power consumption and maximizing hardware utilization, I/ONX enables enterprises to achieve production-scale AI with unprecedented efficiency and faster ROI.

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