Erik Pounds

Erik Pounds is a marketing and product management professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology and data science sectors, focusing on advancing data analytics and AI solutions.Erik Pounds has been serving as the Director of Product Marketing at NVIDIA since 2020, where he’s focused on full-stack solutions in the areas of AI and data science.

In his capacity as the Senior Director of Enterprise AI at NVIDIA, Erik is responsible for promoting GPU-accelerated tools and technologies like the NVIDIA Merlin deep recommender system and the NVIDIA Riva (formerly Jarvis) conversational AI framework.

Building on NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, a curated collection of enterprise-grade pretrained models, Erik’s team provides developers worldwide a running start for bringing custom generative AI to their enterprise applications.

Prior to NVIDIA, Erik led marketing at SwiftStack, and he has held numerous leadership roles in product management throughout his career at companies including EMC, Brocade, Drobo and BitTorrent.Erik holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco. Erik is also an enthusiast in sports, he was the captain of the NCAA Division 1 Golf Team during his time at the University of San Francisco.