Celestial AI appoints Bethany Mayer to Board

Celestial AI, a start-up developing an optical interconnect for disaggregated, exascale compute and memory clusters, appointed Bethany Mayer to its Company’s Board of Directors.

Ms. Mayer currently serves as Chair of the Board at Box, Inc. and also serves as an independent board member at Sempra Energy, Lam Research and Ambri. In addition, she is an executive advisor with Siris Capital Group LLC. She previously served on the boards of Marvel Technology and Pulse Secure.

Ms. Mayer was formerly the president and CEO of Ixia, which was acquired for $1.7B by Keysight Technologies in 2018. Prior to Ixia, she served as the senior vice president and general manager of HP’s $2.5B Networking business unit, which she grew for 14 consecutive quarters. In addition, she served as vice president, marketing and alliances for HP’s Enterprise Servers Storage and Networking Group. Ms. Mayer also served as senior vice president of marketing and alliances for Blue Coat Systems and held leadership roles at Cisco Systems and Apple. 

https://www.celestial.ai

• Earlier this month, Celestial AI announced $100 million in Series B funding.