Josh Parker
Head of Sustainability, Nvidia
Nvidia's sustainability chief is a former patent lawyer who got hired while trying to poach someone from Nvidia.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Head of Sustainability, Nvidia
- Studied
- New York University, Brigham Young University
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Trained as an electrical engineer, then spent years as a patent attorney and litigator in Texas and California.
impactpodcast.com - Detour
Was running Western Digital's ethics compliance in Asia from Bangkok when he volunteered to build the company's first sustainability program.
axios.com - Turning point
Nvidia hired him while he was trying to recruit someone from Nvidia to Western Digital, a reverse poaching.
axios.com - Numbers
Joined Nvidia's sustainability team when it had one other person; three years later the team was four times bigger.
time.com - Numbers
Says Nvidia's Rubin generation is its first AI architecture to reach 100% liquid cooling.
time.com - In their words
Calls himself an introvert who 'would have been shocked' to be doing this much public speaking.
axios.com
Career
- NvidiaHead of Sustainability2023 to now
- Western DigitalHead of Sustainability, Assistant General Counsel2013–2023
- Baker BottsSenior Associate2006–2013
Education
- JD, Law, New York University, 2006
- BS, Electrical engineering, Brigham Young University, 2003
