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THE BEGINNING

Starting to work with a large cloud provider in Texas, soon followed by Facebook, the company found itself at a critical inflection point. Massive growth at the social media company caused it to rethink all of its operations and infrastructure around data centers.   

TWO YEARS OF COLLABORATION

Two years of collaborative engineering and design at Facebook, with SYNNEX participating in the early design and integration work, yielded what became Facebook’s current state-of-the-art data center. In April 2011, Facebook and others made these designs public and incorporated them into the Open Compute Project Foundation, revealing to the world the core integration team that had developed and demonstrated its integration expertise in these breakthrough data center concepts. 

CONTINUED GROWTH

As we have grown and invested not only our technical capabilities, but also in our imperative to become a thought leader in the space, investing in solutions for today, the next five years and beyond. Over time, our customers have  evolved from beyond the large-scale data center landscape into the Edge and on premise cloud environments.

DESIGN ANYTHING | DEPLOY ANYWHERE

Hyve operates multiple manufacturing sites around the world As a fully vertical integrated ODM, continued in-country expansion reinforces our dedication to providing the best-in-class design to worldwide deployment of custom-built data centers. 

OUR MISSION

Hyve’s mission is to create the world’s digital infrastructure by obsessively delivering innovation and customer happiness through thought leadership, operational excellence, and deep customer and vendor relationships.

OUR VALUES

A company without actively promoted and encouraged values is a ship without a rudder. Values shape how we get up in the morning and conduct ourselves throughout every day. Knowing this, we at Hyve articulate our values in a short list of five foundational concepts. These concepts keep us on target and are key foundation tenants that drive our behavior to provide the best customer experience.

We collaborate to achieve the best results.

We focus on achieving results together through principals of trust, constructive dialogue, collaboration and accountability.  

We do the right thing.

We don't take our commitments lightly. We will do everything within our power to meet expectations. We own up to and learn from our mistakes. We do the right thing always.

We are invested in a positive outcome
for our customers, employees and partners

We display respect for others, we're all human. Our compassion is what allows us to understand where we're needed and what we can do to facilitate a positive outcome for our customers and each other.

DIVERSITY: We embrace our diverse workforce as it provides different viewpoints and experiences that can enrich our ideas, decisions and our company.

EQUITY: We strive to create an equitable environment, motivating each other to operate at our highest potential with the knowledge that our work is evaluated on merit without bias.

INCLUSION: We favor inclusivity, creating a safe and embracing environment which every team member should feel and expect.

We focus on quality in everything
we do.

Excellence is a habit not a goal. We welcome challenge with enthusiasm and go above and beyond the call of duty because it's who we are.

We always find a better way.

We question conventional wisdom and challenge the status quo. If there's a better way, we'll find it. We're excited by ingenuity and ready to create new solutions that impact the company, customers or community in a positive way.

MEET OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM

STEVE ICHINAGA

President & Founder of Hyve Solutions
In 2009, SYNNEX’s System Integration Division, focused heavily on the server/storage/appliance market as demand for custom servers in large-scale deployments, ignited. This prompted SYNNEX SVP and general manager, Steve Ichinaga, and a small team to create a new group better able to meet this niche’s unique needs. The group’s custom hyperscale server business exploded after Steve led a partnership with Facebook, which in turn fed into the creation of the Open Compute Project and this SYNNEX group becoming the world’s first OCP Solutions Provider. Steve officially founded Hyve Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary SYNNEX Corporation, in 2011.

DOUGLAS BONE

Co-Founder & Vice President of Quality & Compliance
Doug Bone has been launching and growing server companies for over 25 years, starting with the world’s first Linux server company, VA Linux Systems, in 1994. With a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Doug helped the industry migrate from proprietary systems to x86-based Linux servers. Today with Hyve, he’s pushing the industry again, from commodity systems to open but highly customized platforms for hyperscale applications.

GINA RUGANI

Chief Operating Officer
Now entering her fourth decade with SYNNEX, Gina Rugani has helped the company on its long march from 3,000 to over 200,000 employees, problem solving through growth challenges at every step. Equipped with a UCLA education and indelible sense of loyalty and humor, Gina works with business units from purchasing to IT development to program management. She helped build the software system that runs SYNNEX and Hyve today.

SARAH LIN

Vice President of Supply Chain and Product Management
From programming to sales to product management to supply chain and sourcing management, Sarah has grown with SYNNEX and Hyve for over 20 years. The common denominator of her career, conducting customer and partner relationships with the utmost integrity, mirrors Hyve’s value’s and helps the company’s supply chain succeed with both lead time and a focus on cost reduction. Sarah has also led the charge in further mitigating supply chain risk and costs through forging relationships with 2nd and 3rd tier suppliers, around the globe and around the clock.

DAWN FORRESTER FUSSELL

Vice President, Business Operations
Since joining in 1999 Dawn has held sales, product, operational and leadership roles throughout her career at SYNNEX and Hyve. She is responsible for continued management and design of Hyve’s ERP and manufacturing platforms, business operations, training and help desk teams. Dawn’s passion and goal-oriented mentality is critical to the continued day to day success at Hyve.

CONOR MALONE

Vice President, Engineering
Responsible for leading Hyve’s hardware, software, and field sales engineering teams as they tackle server and storage platforms at scale. His teams are tuned to deliver custom-built data center servers in turn-key racks with a focus on mechanical design, energy efficiency, and thorough testing. With nearly 30 years of data center experience with end user, component vendor, and design roles, Conor was a founding team member, CIO and lead of both the production infrastructure and corporate IT teams responsible for server, storage, networking, and data center technologies at RSTOR. His background also includes server and modular data center design at Rackable Systems, as well as Opteron evangelism and alliance management at AMD. Starting his career managing data center site operations at Yahoo! as their fourth hire, Conor holds a BS from San Jose State University.

STEVE MOSS

Vice President, Human Resources
Steve Moss often thinks he should have been an engineer – his father, brothers and both of his sons are – but he chose a different path in life. While his tenure with Hyve began in 2023, his HR journey began more than three decades ago, with stops along the way in healthcare and manufacturing before landing at SYNNEX in 2003. He has led teams of people-focused professionals through multiple acquisitions, the opening of new facilities, and a pandemic, never losing his focus on the employee experience. Steve believes every team member is important to the business, and our efforts should always start and end with ensuring everyone can bring their best self to work.

SHOU LIN CHUA

Vice President, Sales
Shou has led Hyve through many years of explosive growth since joining in 2011 with an unrelenting focus on Customer Satisfaction. With over two decades of experience in the server, storage, cloud, and large scale datacenter industry, Shou is a highly technical and results-driven Sales leader with a reputation for Customer Obsession. Shou holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence and Computational Modeling) from the University of California, Berkeley.

ROY LEE

Vice President, Hardware Engineering
Roy Lee is responsible for the development of Hyve’s PCB designs for server products that underpin the company’s growth. Roy has spent nearly a decade leading hardware technology teams at Hyve. Previously, he held senior-level positions managing global teams at Tyan Computer and Supermicro. Roy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control Engineering from Feng Chia University, and a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Memphis.
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