"Andy brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and understanding of the Asia Pacific region, as well as specific experience working with HPC customers", stated Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "Cray's international presence is growing rapidly and Andy's experience will be a great compliment to our strong product offerings in the supercomputing arena, helping to get our solutions out to the broader Asia Pacific community."

Andrew comes to Cray with 20 years of experience in HPC across Asia and Australia. This includes former positions as regional manager with Cray Research Australia (1989 to 1995), and with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (1995 to 2006), where he served as the HPC business director for Asia Pacific. Andrew has held recent positions in Taibei, Shanghai and Bangalore, all directed towards high technology diffusion into the Asian region.

"Cray is growing its market share globally and poised for entry into a number of key high performance computing (HPC) sectors", stated Andrew Wyatt, vice president, Cray Asia Pacific. "The Asia Pacific region holds great promise for new HPC sectors for the company as well as more traditional HPC fields where Cray already has a strong presence, including earth sciences, computer-aided engineering and research. It's an exciting time to be joining Cray and help continue this trend of increasing growth in these key regions."