Veteran GPU pioneer and former British Business Bank CEO join the board as Axelera scales further into enterprise and data center markets
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, October 08, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Axelera AI, the leading provider of purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced the appointments of Osman Kent and Catherine Lewis La Torre CBE to its board as non-executive directors. Together they bring decades of experience building silicon companies and scaling businesses through Europe’s private capital markets.
“Osman is one of the luminaries of deep tech in Europe and helped invent the GPU, and Catherine has spent 35 years backing and building Europe’s innovation economy,” said Fabrizio Del Maffeo, CEO and co-founder of Axelera AI. “Their experience will be invaluable as we grow our global commercial scale.”
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