Jason Hoffman

Chief Strategy Officer, Switch

Jason Hoffman is a thought and execution leader in the industrialization trend for datacenters where he pioneered hardware and software designs that could drive wholesale supply chain efficiencies while making these systems highly accessible and usable to developers. There are variations of this called "cloud computing", "edge computing", "industrial internet" et al.

Jason is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Switch, and is also responsible for their federal business towards the DOE, DOD and IC. He is also a Managing Partner at S8 Advisory Partners, a board, shareholder and corporate development advisory firm that he founded along with his family asset management company, S8 FAM.

Jason was with the Counterpoint Global Team at Morgan Stanley (an Active Fundamental Equity Investor), the founding CEO of MobiledgeX, Inc., an edge computing company acquired by Google in 2022; a CTO and Product Area head at Ericsson AB in Sweden where he led the industry's virtualization of mobile networks, and the founder and CTO at Joyent, a cloud computing company acquired and still operated by Samsung. He was also the founding Chair of the Board at NPM, Inc. (acquired by GitHub) and Incredible Labs (acquired by Yahoo) and an outside Board Member and Advisor to many companies.

Previous to his work in computer science, Jason was a fellow at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, obtained his PhD at the Burnham Institute (now "Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute") with Erkki Ruoslahti, MD PhD, and earned a BS/MS in Biochemistry from University of California, Los Angeles. Broadly speaking, he studies adaptive complex systems that result in disease and his predominant scientific areas of interests are in Cancer, Infectious Diseases and Aging, and interdisciplinary areas: Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Combinatorial Methods.

His hobbies are Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Combat Sports and Practical Shooting. He's a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), a Lifetime Member of USA Judo/USJF and a certified coach with USA Wrestling.