John Kim is director of storage marketing at NVIDIA in the Networking Business Unit, where he helps customers and vendors benefit from high performance network connections, SmartNIC offloads, and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), especially in the areas of storage, big data, and artificial intelligence. A frequent blogger, conference speaker, and webcast presenter, John is also chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s Networking Storage Forum (SNIA NSF). After starting his high tech career at an IT helpdesk and as a network administrator, John worked in solution marketing, product management, and alliances for enterprise software companies and then at enterprise storage vendors NetApp and EMC. He joined Mellanox in 2013 and then NVIDIA in 2020.