About Lin

Lin Nease is an HPE Fellow and Chief Technologist for Sustainability Services, Advisory and Professional Services. He is responsible for setting strategy, building a technology plan, and driving innovation with key enterprise customers/partners of HP. Prior to this role, he was HPE Pointnext’s IoT activities and provided IoT consulting directly with HPE’s enterprise customers. Lin also helped establish HPE’s EdgeLine business, and HPE’s membership in organizations like the Industrial Internet Consortium. 

In his 25+ years with HPE, he has been a Chief Technologist and Director of strategy for multiple business units, including HP’s Business Critical Servers and Networking businesses, has been a Chief Technologist and General Manager for multiple global accounts (GE, UPS), driven multiple M&A activities and cross-business initiatives, led numerous successful commercial products, including the industry’s first blade solution and HP’s long-lived Superdome platform, and holds several patents in software-defined networking. 

He received his BS in Computer Science at Arizona State University and his MBA from California State University Sacramento. He also served as a computer operator in the United States Air Force. 

About HPE

HPE is the global edge-to-cloud company built to transform businesses.  By helping you connect, protect, analyze, and act on all your data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so you can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.