DG Matrix Appoints Peter Gross, Data Center Mission-Critical Pioneer and iMasons Hall of Fame Inductee, to Executive Advisory Board

Three-decade mission-critical infrastructure leader, co-founder of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, and 2024 Data Center World Lifetime Achievement Award recipient will help DG Matrix build the power fabric for the Intelligence Age, enabling the 800-VDC transition.

MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DG Matrix, the global leader in solid-state transformer solutions, today announced the appointment of Peter Gross, one of the foremost authorities on mission-critical and data center infrastructure, to its Executive Advisory Board. Gross will advise DG Matrix’s engineering, solutions, and commercial teams as the company builds the power fabric for the Intelligence Age: the AI-driven control layer that manages every watt flowing from a combination of utility, on-site generation and storage sources to IT loads.

Gross has spent more than three decades at the forefront of mission-critical information, communication, and infrastructure design. He is currently Managing Partner of PMG Associates, a consulting and advisory firm, and until 2019 led the Mission Critical Systems group at Bloom Energy, a leading manufacturer of solid oxide fuel cells. Earlier, he co-founded and served as CEO of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a premier data center design and engineering firm acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2008, where he went on to lead HP’s Consulting Services focused on carbon, power, and critical facilities.

A recognized thought leader in high-reliability design, power quality, energy systems and sustainability, Gross is a co-inventor on patents covering modular, prefabricated FlexDC systems, direct current power distribution topologies for data centers, and fuel-cell-based data center architectures. A Senior Member of the IEEE and a Registered Professional Engineer, he contributed to IEEE Standard 3006.7-2013 for determining the reliability of 24/7 power systems. His honors include the 2024 Data Center World Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2010 Data Center Dynamics “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” Award, and induction into the Infrastructure Masons Hall of Fame.

“Peter has shaped how the world’s most demanding data centers are designed, powered, and operated for the better part of three decades,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “He understands, better than anyone, why AI has fundamentally changed the data center and why on-site generation, grid support, and intelligent power conversion now sit at the center of every buildout. Having him on our Executive Advisory Board will sharpen how we build, deliver, and service our solid-state transformer solutions and will accelerate our path to becoming the intelligent power fabric of the industry.”

Gross’s recent work has centered on the shift from AI training to inference and what it demands of digital infrastructure. Inference workloads require far higher availability, sit closer to urban load centers, and run in smaller, often co-located facilities where power can swing from full load to near zero in milliseconds. DG Matrix’s AI-enabled Interport™ platform is built to manage exactly these conditions: collapsing multi-stage power conversion into a single, software-defined stage, absorbing GPU pulse loads, and integrating on-site generation, storage and batteries into the load. Its multi-port converter can also inject reactive power back into the grid when load swings threaten to collapse grid voltage, giving operators a tool for demand response and frequency support. DG Matrix operates the largest solid-state transformer engineering team of any company in the world, giving the platform a multi-year lead on SST hardware, firmware and AI-driven control software.

“For most of my career, data center power improved incrementally and nothing fundamental changed. AI changed that,” said Peter Gross. “Density has gone from a few kilowatts to as much as 500 kilowatts per cabinet, power fluctuations are severe, and on-site generation has become vital to how these facilities get built. DG Matrix has the ability to streamline the entire electrical topology, reduce footprint and cost, and protect both the load and the grid. I am convinced this technology will have a very significant impact on the industry, and that is why I am joining.”

Gross serves as Chairman of Cato and sits on the boards of Aligned Data Centers, Edgevana, Apolo Cloud, Overwatch, and IDCA. He chairs the advisory councils of Vertiv and Bloom Energy and advises EnerSys, Lancium, Crusoe, VIER and Rehlko. He is an External Advisor to Bain & Company, a Master of Infrastructure Masons, and serves on the advisory boards of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Data Center Systems Engineering Board of Advisors at Southern Methodist University’s Lyle School of Engineering.

As a member of the DG Matrix Executive Advisory Board, Gross will advise on platform and solutions strategy, on-site generation and grid integration, and deployment architectures for AI data center developers. His appointment continues a series of Executive Advisory Board appointments and comes as DG Matrix accelerates pilot deployments of its AI-enabled Interport platform with hyperscale, neocloud and colocation customers worldwide.

About DG Matrix

DG Matrix has commercialized the world’s first multi-port solid-state transformer to solve the most urgent challenges in deploying power infrastructure for AI datacenters and electrification. Its AI-enabled Interport™ platform acts as the intelligent power fabric of the data center, enabling faster deployment, lower energy costs, and software-controlled integration of all energy sources and loads, at scale, anywhere in the world. Learn more at https://www.dgmatrix.com/.