Rolf-Dieter Fiebrich

Principal

Rolf Fiebrich possesses an extraordinary background in the innovation and development of complex, high value systems, components and software. He has demonstrated skills in attracting and managing diverse teams populated with brilliant talent, leading those teams to bring exceptional products to market in rapid development cycles. At Sand Hill Technology he leverages his experience by assisting companies that develop disruptive technology products and venture capital firms that invest in such companies.

Before Sand Hill Technology, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Voyan, where he oversaw the pioneering development of technologies for high performance communication over legacy loop plants of telecoms.

Prior to Voyan, Rolf served as Director of Software Development at Simulation Sciences. Before that, as Director of Advanced Systems Development at Thinking Machines Corporation, he oversaw the development of TMC's massively parallel CM-5 computer system which was at the time the most powerful computer in the world. In addition to leading the CM-5 project, Rolf led teams for architecture design, microchip development, development of programming concepts for massively parallel computing, computer aided design, and development of early technical/scientific applications.

Before TMC, Rolf was Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he worked on a new generation of computer aided design tools and workstations that were part of a major disruption that changed the way microchips and systems were designed.

Earlier projects included the acquisition and deployment of a large computer network connecting universities in Munich and other cities in Bavaria. At Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm, while still a student, Rolf initiated innovative changes to computer controlled test systems for aircraft, including the MRCA/Tornado and Airbus, and was invited to present at NATO conferences.

Rolf holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science all from the Technical University of Munich.