About ionGrid | ionGrid

ionGrid was founded in 2010 with a simple mission: to transform tablets into great computing devices for the enterprise.

The people at ionGrid bring a wide variety of experience, ranging from system software and high performance computer graphics, to touch-based computing and enterprise software focused on mobile devices. We love building software that's easy to use, yet doesn't sacrifice security or flexibility. And we believe that Design and Security must be a part of the DNA of who we are and what we create.

ionGrid is headquartered in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company is privately held.

Nick Triantos

Founder & CEO

Nick has been writing software since the early 1980's, when he first started programming in Basic and 6502 assembly language on his Apple ][e (a computer which he still has). He began his professional software engineering career at Apple, where he helped create ClarisDraw and ClarisImpact. After leaving Apple, Mr. Triantos worked on system-level software at 3DO, Navio Communications (sold to Oracle), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), where he created NVIDIA's OpenGL software, and later became VP and Chief Software Architect. In 2005, Mr. Triantos left to work in venture capital and as an angel investor, and then joined TokBox in 2007. Nick became CEO of TokBox in early 2008, and held that position until mid-2009. In late 2009, Nick joined Perceptive Pixel as VP of Engineering, and helped to build touchscreen-driven systems and software which are delivered to numerous television studios, government agencies, and research centers. He left Perceptive Pixel to found ionGrid shortly after the launch of the iPad.

Nick holds a B.S. in Computer Science, as well as dual MBA degrees from Columbia University and UC Berkeley.

Ben de Waal

Founder and CTO

Ben is an experienced and hands-on leader in software. He started out developing rendering engines for graphics simulations and went on to implement a great deal of the early Direct3D drivers for NVIDIA Corporation. For many years he served as VP of GPU Software at NVIDIA, delivering world-class graphics system software to billions of people. More recently he worked at Perceptive Pixel on large multi-touch displays and interactive distributed systems. He founded ionGrid to help bridge the productivity gap between incumbent enterprise systems and the ever evolving mobile workforce.

Ben holds a B.Eng in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Michael Rothrock

Founder and VP of Product

Michael has spent his entire career in enterprise mobility, starting as an early employee at Portal Software where he was the architect and lead engineer for the first version of the companies mobile billing product. Upon release, he relocated to Europe where he worked closely with the continent's largest companies and mobile operators to deploy the early mobile data solutions based on this software. After leaving Portal, Mr. Rothrock worked for Orative and, after acquisition, Cisco, where he was a global expert on integrating mobile devices into enterprise infrastructure such as MS Exchange and Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Leaving Cisco to join Interwise and, after aquisition, AT&T, Michael again helped provide guidance to large, global companies as they migrated to mobile, and more broadly, unified communications solutions. Seeing the business potential of the iPad, he left AT&T to help found ionGrid.

Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida.

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phone 540 466 4713
email info [at] iongrid [dot] com

821 W. El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA
94040