# Christina Olmsted

> Christina Olmsted is Vice President of AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA, where she leads global marketing and PR teams at the epicenter of the AI revolution. With nearly a decade at NVIDIA and 15 years prior at Cisco, she built and championed campaigns that repositioned entire computing paradigms - from Cisco's Internet of Everything brand movement to NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing narrative. A UC Berkeley dual-degree alumna with a flair for connecting technology to human impact, she operates at the intersection of deep technical product marketing and culture-shaping storytelling.

- **Role:** Vice President, AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA
- **Organizations:** NVIDIA, Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, Scandinavian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Led the transformation of Cisco's advertising-led brand to the integrated 'Internet of Everything' global thought leadership campaign, Transformed Cisco's presence at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show to spotlight the business impact of IoT, Led global marketing and PR at NVIDIA spanning AI, deep learning, and accelerated computing from 2016 onward

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Marketing roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, building foundational enterprise technology marketing experience
- **2000** — Joined Cisco as a marketing leader, beginning a 15-year tenure in enterprise technology brand marketing
- **2012** — Led integrated launch of Cisco's new brand campaign, transforming it from advertising-led to a full-funnel, integrated, global thought leadership initiative establishing Cisco as leader of the Internet of Everything
- **2014** — Transformed Cisco's presence at the Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate business impact of the Internet of Everything brand platform
- **2015** — Departed Cisco after 15 years as Senior Director, overseeing the CXO marketing program and Internet of Everything brand campaign
- **2016** — Joined NVIDIA as marketing leader for Accelerated Computing and Data Center; later elevated to Vice President, AI and Data Center Marketing
- **2017-2018** — Authored NVIDIA blog content covering SC17 and SC18 supercomputing conferences, GTC, and the growing HPC and AI data center ecosystem
- **2022-2025** — Leading NVIDIA's global marketing and PR push around AI, deep learning, data center, and GTC - the world's leading AI conference

## Achievements

- Led the transformation of Cisco's advertising-led brand to the integrated 'Internet of Everything' global thought leadership campaign
- Transformed Cisco's presence at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show to spotlight the business impact of IoT
- Led global marketing and PR at NVIDIA spanning AI, deep learning, and accelerated computing from 2016 onward
- Helped build the marketing narrative around NVIDIA GTC as the #1 AI conference
- Drove marketing for NVIDIA's accelerated data science push into high performance computing alongside leading tech companies and US supercomputing labs

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Promoted NVIDIA's GTC 2025 in San Jose as the marquee AI conference, continuing to lead global marketing for NVIDIA's AI and data center business
- **2023-07** — Shared content around Google Cloud and NVIDIA expanding their partnership to advance AI capabilities
- **2023-03** — Actively promoted GTC 2023 including Jensen Huang's keynote and next-wave AI discussions

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaolmsted/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/colmsted

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Last updated: 2026-05-31