SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - May 4, 2015) -  Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the appointment of Nick Gorga to the position of vice president of sales for the Asia Pacific region. With a 32-year career in high tech, including more than 22 years of high performance computing (HPC) sales experience, Gorga will be responsible for leading Cray's sales efforts in the region.

"The Asia Pacific region is an important piece of our international growth plans, and I am excited to have Nick representing Cray in our customer partnerships across the geography," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "This region contains some of the fastest growing and most diverse countries and customers in the world. Nick's impressive background and proven experience will help customers gain strategic advantage in their business and research by leveraging our unique supercomputing, storage and analytics solutions."

Prior to joining Cray, Gorga served as general manager, Asia Pacific at SGI and was responsible for leading the company's regional strategy and direction in countries that included Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China, India, New Zealand and his native Australia. Previously, Gorga held several positions at SGI, including general manager for South Asia and Korea, regional manager for Australia, and a number of senior sales positions in Australia. Prior to SGI, Gorga held sales and systems engineering positions with Prime Computer Inc.

"I am continually fascinated by supercomputing and its ability to transform our world," said Gorga. "From helping to predict catastrophic weather events, finding cures for insidious diseases, helping build safer cars, finding oil more efficiently and keeping us safe by helping the intelligence community sift through mountains of data -- what customers do with Cray systems is truly inspiring. Cray is an exciting company with an unwavering commitment to high performance computing, and I look forward to contributing to its success."

In his new position, Gorga joins Andrew Wyatt, Cray's vice president of operations in the Asia Pacific region. Gorga will oversee Cray's sales initiatives in the region and Wyatt is responsible for Cray's service, corporate and management functions across the Asia-Pacific organization.

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