Gary Thome is the Vice President and Chief Engineer within the Converged Datacenter Infrastructure business at HPE. He is responsible for the technical and architectural directions of converged datacenter products and technologies including HPE Synergy. Previously, Thome has led and contributed to technology and architecture directions for HP OneView, HP CloudSystem, and HP BladeSystem, including embedded technologies such as HP Virtual Connect, HP Insight Control and HP Thermal Logic. With more than 27 years of HPE and HP experience, Thome has also directed efforts in industry standard servers, desktop computers and professional workstations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of 48 patents.