
Jason Hoffman is a thought and execution leader in the industrialization trend for datacenters where he pioneered hardware and software designs that could drive wholesale supply chain efficiencies while making these systems highly accessible and usable to developers. There are variations of this called "cloud computing", "edge computing", "industrial internet" et al. Jason is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Switch.com, and is also responsible for their federal business towards the DOE, DOD and IC. He is also a Managing Partner at S8 Advisory Partners, a board, shareholder and corporate development advisory firm that he founded along with his family asset management company, S8 FAM. Jason was with the Counterpoint Global Team at Morgan Stanley (an Active Fundamental Equity Investor), the founding CEO of MobiledgeX, Inc., an edge computing company acquired by Google in 2022; a CTO and Product Area head at Ericsson AB in Sweden where he led the industry's virtualization of mobile networks, and the founder and CTO at Joyent, a cloud computing company acquired and still operated by Samsung. He was also the founding Chair of the Board at NPM, Inc. (acquired by GitHub) and Incredible Labs (acquired by Yahoo) and an outside Board Member and Advisor to many companies. Previous to his work in computer science, Jason was a fellow at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, obtained his PhD at the Burnham Institute (now "Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute") with Erkki Ruoslahti, MD PhD, and earned a BS/MS in Biochemistry from University of California, Los Angeles. Broadly speaking, he studies adaptive complex systems that result in disease and his predominant scientific areas of interests are in Cancer, Infectious Diseases and Aging, and interdisciplinary areas: Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Combinatorial Methods. His hobbies are Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Combat Sports and Practical Shooting. He's a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), a Lifetime Member of USA Judo/USJF and a certified coach with USA Wrestling.
switchdatacenters.com
glginsights.com
americantower.com
ucsd.edu
ucla.edu
newcontext.com
joyent.com
Los Gatos, California, United States
Head of Federal
Switch
• www.linkedin.com/company/switch-data-centers
Jan 2023 - Present
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Chief Strategy Officer
Switch
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Jan 2023 - Present
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Managing General Partner
S8 Capital Management LLC
Jul 2012 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States
Managing Partner
S8 Advisory Partners LLC
• www.linkedin.com/company/s8partners
Jul 1999 - Present
Los Gatos, California, United States
Principal
S8 Family Asset Management LLC
• www.linkedin.com/company/s8fam
Dec 2010 - Present
Los Gatos, California, United States
Chair Of The Board Of Directors
iGrant.io
• www.linkedin.com/company/igrantio
Nov 2017 - Present
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
President & CEO
MobiledgeX
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Menlo Park, California
Chief Editor and Principal
SciEdit.com
Aug 1998 - Dec 2003
La Jolla, California
Visiting Graduate Student
Lab of Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute
Sep 1997 - Aug 2003
La Jolla, California
Consultant
The Burnham Institute and Targeted Molecules Corporation
Nov 2000 - Aug 2001
La Jolla, California
Emergency Medical and Trauma Technician
St. Mary Medical Center Emergency Dept. and Trauma Center
Jan 1991 - Jan 1995
Long Beach, California
ericsson.com
automattic.com
gsma.com
npmjs.com
princetonreview.com
morganstanley.com
novartis.com
vertiv.com