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Safy is a Corporate Vice President and Global Account Manager at AMD, overseeing the overall relationship with HPE. In this role, he is responsible for managing the go-to-market strategy, direct sales, and balance of trade between the two companies. Prior to this position, Safy served as Corporate Vice President of Global Sales for AMD's Data Center and Communications Group. Earlier in his career, Safy gained extensive international experience while living in Asia and Europe, where he established and scaled sales organizations at MaxLinear, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in networking, communications, and data center markets.

Safy holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, an MS in electrical engineering from UC San Diego and BS in electrical engineering from Boston University.

Billy Landuyt is currently the U.S. Gulf Coast Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Business Manager at ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions. Dr. Landuyt earned a B.A. in Physics and Math from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University.  His research focused on applying fluid dynamics and material science to understanding the origin of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets. Before joining ExxonMobil he was a Green Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Dr. Landuyt has held multiple positions at ExxonMobil, including earlier work as a geoscientist in ExxonMobil’s Production and Exploration Companies and Research Scientist focused on Global Climate Change at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. Later assignments include roles as an Energy Advisor in Corporate Strategic Planning focused on projecting energy demand in support of ExxonMobil’s Energy Outlook and Natural Gas Market Developer for the Americas and Africa as part of ExxonMobil’s Upstream Company. Subsequent roles focused on leading ExxonMobil technology organizations focused on research innovations in support of upstream, downstream, and low carbon value chains.