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Shahin Khan
Computer Systems Vice President and Chief Competitive Officer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

As Computer Systems Vice President and Chief Competitive Officer, Shahin Khan, one of Sun's luminaries, is responsible for leading Sun's competitive strategy and programs.

Prior to his current role, Shahin was Vice President of Computer Systems Product Marketing where, since 1998 he was responsible for the overall marketing strategy for Sun's desktop and server systems. He and his team established a rigorous product launch process and led the marketing effort for Sun's transition from Ultra SPARC-II to Ultra SPARC-III, successfully launching the Sun Blade line of workstations and Sun Fire servers as well as several Reference Architectures on wireless content distribution, data warehousing, and mail and messaging.

Shahin joined Sun in 1996 as the Director of Marketing for Sun's Data Center and High Performance Computing Product Group. He led the marketing and application engineering team that launched Starfire (Sun E10000 server), set 42 performance world records, created the Mainframe Affinity and Server Consolidation programs, created the SuperG users group, made Sun the first to introduce a Capacity-on-Demand acquisition model, and led Sun's rapid rise to the number 2 spot in the HPC market. In addition, Khan was responsible for the management of Sun's large scale computing center in Beaverton, Oregon.

His extensive tenure and experience with IT initiatives also includes director of Marketing Programs at Cray Research Inc.'s Business Systems Division, where he was an integral part in bringing large scale SMP systems to business and mission critical industry. Before joining Cray, he was the European Marketing Manager with Floating Point Systems (FPS) UK, and site manager at the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility. He began his career at IBM's Data Systems Division working on the LCAP distributed memory parallel processing architecture and molecular modeling applications.

He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University and is the author of several papers on high performance commercial and technical computing.