Jonmichael Hands
CEO, FarmGPU
AI Technologist, Solidigm
Chair, Board of Directors, Circular Drive Initiative
Jonmichael Hands is CEO of FarmGPU and AI Technologist at Solidigm, where he focuses on the intersection of storage, AI infrastructure, and emerging workloads. He brings over a decade of experience from Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, where he led product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for data center SSDs. Jonmichael has held key industry leadership roles, including Chair of NVMe Marketing and Co-Chair of the SNIA SSD Special Interest Group, and has contributed to storage and sustainability initiatives within the Open Compute Project. He previously served as VP of Storage at Chia Network and remains an advisor. Jonmichael is Chairman of the Board of the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI), a 501(c)(6) organization advancing secure drive reuse and circular business models across the storage industry. He began his career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
