A 25-year career spanning silicon, cybersecurity, manufacturing, power, cabling, and cooling gives Dr. Thakkar a rare perspective across the entire data center stack

DG Matrix, the global leader in solid-state transformer solutions, today announced the appointment of Deepak Thakkar, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer. Dr. Thakkar will lead commercial strategy and customer engagement as DG Matrix accelerates deployment of its Interport™ platform across AI and conventional data center environments worldwide.

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Deepak Thakkar, Ph.D., Chief Commercial Officer, DG Matrix

Dr. Thakkar brings more than 25 years of leadership experience spanning virtually every layer of the data center infrastructure ecosystem.

Prior to joining DG Matrix, he served as Chief Commercial Officer for portfolio companies within the data center thermal management practice of Neos Partners, where he helped institutionalize commercial operations and expand high-margin infrastructure opportunities.

Previously, he served as Vice President of Sales at Boyd Corporation, whose thermal management business was acquired by Eaton in a $9.5 billion transaction, where he led growth initiatives across mission-critical thermal management markets. He also served as President of Global Sales at Electrical Components International (ECI), leading commercial strategies that contributed to a successful $2 billion exit.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Thakkar spent nearly a decade at Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) as Vice President of Business Development, managing executive relationships with leading OEM customers across North America, Europe, Korea, and India while overseeing more than $2 billion in annual outsourced manufacturing revenue. He also held senior data center business leadership roles at Intel, McAfee, and Silicon Graphics.

“I’ve spent my career watching each layer of the data center stack become increasingly optimized in isolation; chips here, cooling there, power elsewhere,” said Dr. Thakkar. “DG Matrix is the first platform I have seen that brings these domains together at the rack level. The opportunity to build the commercial engine around Interport, at this stage of the company’s growth, is exactly the challenge I have been looking for.”

Dr. Thakkar’s approach to infrastructure investment decisions is rooted in economics and operational outcomes.

According to the company, the DG Matrix Interport platform consolidates up to 15 discrete electrical components into four, reducing cooling and energy costs while lowering total cost of ownership to approximately one-half to two-thirds that of conventional architectures. Deployment timelines can be reduced from the industry’s typical 18 to 24 months to approximately six months. Fewer components also translate into fewer potential points of failure — a critical consideration in an industry where uptime directly drives revenue generation.

“Deepak has spent his career operating across every layer of the data center stack, from silicon to cooling to power infrastructure,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “That perspective is exactly what DG Matrix needs as we position Interport as foundational infrastructure that must integrate seamlessly with everything else in the rack. Deepak approaches every opportunity through a commercial lens rather than as a science experiment, and that discipline will strengthen how we bring Interport to market.”

As Chief Commercial Officer, Dr. Thakkar will build and scale DG Matrix’s commercial organization, deepen strategic relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, and data center developers, and accelerate market adoption of the Interport platform globally. He reports directly to CEO Haroon Inam and joins DG Matrix at a pivotal stage as the company expands deployments worldwide.

About DG Matrix

DG Matrix has commercialized the world’s first multi-port solid-state transformer designed to address the growing power infrastructure challenges associated with AI data centers and electrification. Its standardized Interport™ platform enables faster deployment, lower energy costs, and flexible integration of multiple energy sources and loads at scale, anywhere in the world.

For more information, visit http://www.dgmatrix.com.

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