Rahul Sood

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Rahul Sood
Born May 29, 1973 (1973-05-29) (age 36)
Canada
Occupation VoodooPC founder and President, HP Voodoo Business Unit CTO[1][2]

Rahul Sood is the Chief Technology Officer for the Hewlett Packard Global Voodoo Business Unit. In 2007 Business 2.0 magazine had claimed Sood to be 83rd out of 101 persons on their "Who matters now?" list.[3]

Sood has led the development of technologies such as fanless PC technology, liquid cooling and active liquid chilling and was the first to bring them to market in the high-performance computing gaming industry.[2]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and education

Sood claims to have taken an interest in computers at the age of 11, having disassembled and painted his first computer—an Apple IIc—before even turning it on.[4]

He graduated high school in 1991 and then enrolled in Mount Royal College. "Bored after high school" and uninspired by the computer science courses, he stopped attending college after the first week.[5]

[edit] VoodooPC

Rahul founded the company in 1991 in Calgary and in approximately 1992 purchased a "heritage home more than a century old."[2][5] In 1999 his brother Ravi Sood joined the company. By 2004, Rahul notes "there was a ceiling to [VoodooPC's] growth."[5]

[edit] Blog

Sood believes "corporate blogging [is] very important"[6] and has been noted to make bold statements on his own blog.[7]

[edit] Hewlett-Packard

On September 28, 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced "the integration of VoodooPC."[8] As Sood states on his blog, he and his brother Ravi Sood had been considering the strategy for VoodooPC since "mid 2005," including discussions with Taiwanese ODMs and Dell Computers.[6] Rahul has claimed the "treasure trove of product innovations" from HP Labs to be a major influence in his decision.[8]

As stated in the August 2007 version of his official "Executive Biography," Sood's responsibility at HP is technical strategy, product vision and "commercializing intellectual property" from HP Labs.[2]

[edit] Personal life

Sood currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is an avid cyclist.[9] He is interested in "offer[ing] wider access to healthcare services" and would like to get involved in developing "tech toys for children with autism."[2]

[edit] Published works

[edit] References

  1. ^ Businessweek. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ): Executive Profile. Accessed September 14, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e Hewlett-Packard. Executive Biography: Rahul Sood
  3. ^ Business 2.0 magazine. Who matters now? - Rahul Sood (83). Accessed September 14, 2007.
  4. ^ Sood, Rahul. www.rahulsood.com accessed September 14, 2007.
  5. ^ a b c Sood, Rahul. The History of Voodoo Chapter 1 Accessed September 14, 2007.
  6. ^ a b Sood, Rahul. Where there's Smoke there's Fire… August 25, 2006. Accessed September 14, 2007.
  7. ^ Kerrison, Steve. Rahul Sood: AMD-Dell deal 'imminent', February 13, 2006. Accessed September 14, 2007.
  8. ^ a b Zazaian, Mike. HP Acquires VoodooPC, Rahul Sood Remains Top Dog, September 28, 2006. Accessed September 14, 2007.
  9. ^ Sood, Rahul. Take the road to success - on a bike May 22, 2007. Accessed September 14, 2007.

[edit] External links

[edit] Interviews

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