Cray Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Max Schireson as a member of the Board, and as a member of the Strategic Technology Assessment and Compensation Committees, effective July 8, 2014. Schireson is the CEO of MongoDB Inc. Prior to MongoDB, Schireson spent more than seven years at MarkLogic, a database provider for unstructured information, where he held a variety of executive roles including chief operating officer. Before MarkLogic, Schireson spent nine years at Oracle where he held a number of roles including chief applications architect and vice president, E-Commerce and Self Service Applications.

Along with the addition of Schireson to Cray's Board of Directors, the company is also aligning its organization to better capitalize on the massive growth of data, and the convergence of supercomputing and big data seen at companies and institutions around the world. As part of this alignment, Cray will bring together its product groups, Peg Williams will lead a cross-company R&D organization, and Barry Bolding will lead an expanded marketing and business development team. Separately, Bill Blake and Arvind Parthasarathi will be leaving the company to pursue other interests, but both will remain with Cray through a transition period.