Debora Shoquist

Debora Shoquist is executive vice president of operations at NVIDIA, where she oversees operations and supply chain functions spanning manufacturing and test engineering, foundry operations, supplier management, supply planning, logistics, and quality management. She brings extensive executive experience across general management, manufacturing, engineering, finance, information services, and human resources. Shoquist has held senior operational and business leadership positions at NVIDIA, JDS Uniphase, Coherent, Quantum, and HP. Her background combines manufacturing management with operational leadership across technology and semiconductor-related businesses. 

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Shoquist began her career in engineering and manufacturing management at HP, where she worked for a decade. She later spent 11 years in executive roles at Quantum, including leadership of its Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive division. She subsequently became senior vice president and general manager of Coherent’s Electro-Optics business before joining JDS Uniphase as executive vice president of operations. In 2007, she joined NVIDIA as senior vice president of operations and became executive vice president of operations in 2009. Her career has centered on manufacturing, operations, engineering, and general management.

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