Mr. Sanford Russell Mr. Sanford Russell is in charge of NVIDIA’s autonomous driving ecosystem in North America, where he leads the development of self-driving vehicles with NVIDIA partners, transportation startups, and research institutions. Previously, Mr. Russell served as general manager of NVIDIA’s CUDA-accelerated software platform. Before joining NVIDIA 17 years ago, he worked at Silicon Graphics. Mr. Russell has a degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.