Roy Chartier is the Director of Architecture and Industry at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly the New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization; NDRIO) where he is responsible for leading the evolution and implementation of Canada’s high-performance computing and data analytics. Over a 28-year career, Roy has held roles in government, industry, and NPOs in the delivery of high-value workloads (HPC, HTC, HPDA, AI, Cloud WLM).
Previously, Roy was at Canada HPC, a services company for Tier 1 HPC vendors where he served as Founder & CEO. In addition, as Founder & CTO of The Supercomputer for Cancer Research, an non-profit organization, is serving 27,000 cores and 1,800 GPUs to projects, at no cost, for McGill, Queens, Carleton, Harvard, Stanford, U of Illinois, Indiana U, U of Wisconsin, and others.
Roy has completed Executive Programs at MIT CSAIL. He also has a degree in Philosophy from Carleton University.
