Walden Rhines Steps Down as Cornami’s CEO, Board Unanimously Appoints Executive Chairman, Gordon Campbell as his Successor

Rhines to remain on the Board of Directors

Dallas, Texas — June 02, 2025 — Cornami, Inc., the inventor of the next-generation high-performance computing architecture today announced a leadership transition as Walden “Wally” Rhines steps down from the role of Chief Executive Officer. He will continue to serve on the company’s board of directors, ensuring a smooth transition. The Board has unanimously appointed Gordon “Cordie” Campbell, the company’s current chairman, as the new CEO, effective immediately.

“After five (5) years of leading Cornami, I’ve made the decision to step aside from day-to-day operations,” said  Wally Rhines. “The company has some of the most exciting and innovative technology that I have seen in my career and it has been an honor to help build this company alongside our incredible team. I look forward to continuing to support Cornami as a board member and am confident in Gordie’s ’s leadership as we enter our next phase of growth.”

Gordie Campbell has been active in working closely with Wally as executive chairman making this a very seamless transition as the company turns to its commercial growth phase with customers and partners.  Throughout his illustrious career, Gordie has been at the forefront of pioneering groundbreaking technologies and guiding organizations toward sustained growth. His early career included serving as Intel’s first corporate marketing manager, followed by leading the company’s largest division. 

• He left Intel and founded his first company, SEEQ.  SEEQ developed the first Ethernet chip, which was pivotal in the history of networking because it marked the transition of Ethernet technology from a lab concept to a scalable, commercially viable standard for local area networks (LANs). 
• Following SEEQ, Gordie founded CHIPS and Technologies and not only pioneered the growth of the personal computer market with the invention of the first chipset, but also created the fabless semiconductor model, leading to his title as “Father of the Fabless Model”. This now represents over half of a $600+ billion semiconductor market.  

Additionally, Gordie has played active roles in founding, investing, and leading a number of other successful startups developing breakthrough technologies with significant impact on large markets including 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, Portal Player, and Resonate.  He has also served on the board of directors for dozens of companies.  More recently, he was an investor and served as chairman for Soft Machines (“S-Machines”), a company that developed a more advanced X86 architecture.   Intel acquired the company and is using its micro kernel for its next generation architecture.  

“I want to thank Wally for his efforts and look forward to continuing to work with him strategically at the Board level,“ said Gordie.  “I am very excited for the next chapter of Cornami as we transition our innovative technology to the market in terms of products and services.    I look forward to working closely with our talented team to accelerate our momentum in the market addressing both encrypted and unencrypted computing at scale.”

This leadership transition reflects Cornami’s ongoing commitment to long-term growth, innovation, and delivering value to its customers and shareholders.

About Cornami

Cornami is focused on the deployment of intelligent computing in real-time environments.   The company has developed a highly parallel, reconfigurable computational fabric to address the shift in computing needs for the ever-increasing massive datasets of today, and into the future.  This game-changing, software-defined technology delivers unprecedented linear scalability from thousands of cores on a single chip to millions across a system to meet performance, cost, and power requirements for customers and partners. Learn more at www.cornami.com.