Walter Aldana

Vice President of Partnerships & Alliances

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Walter Aldana has been named Vice President of Partnerships & Alliances at Groq, a global market leader technology company with innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC). The search was led by Mark Lonergan.

About Walter

Walter is one of the top dealmakers in Silicon Valley. He has run Business Development and Partner/Alliance organizations for some of the most admired young tech companies: Snowflake, Alation and Veritas. Walter also has experience as an investment banker, having spent time with Goldman Sachs working in their technology investments group. Walter has two degrees from MIT including a Masters from MIT’s legendary AI Lab; Walter also has an MBA from Stanford.

About Groq

Groq® is a generative AI solutions company and the creator of the LPU Inference Engine, the fastest language processing accelerator on the market. It is architected from the ground up to achieve low latency, energy-efficient, and repeatable inference performance at scale. Customers rely on the Groq LPU Inference Engine as an end-to-end solution for running Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI applications at 10x the speed. Jonathan Ross, inventor of the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), founded Groq to enable an AI economy powered by human agency.

Walter Aldana is one of the tech world’s foremost dealmakers and Partnership leaders. He will be an instrumental asset to the entire team at Groq as that company takes its place among the global elite AI companies.

Mark Lonergan, Founder and Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners