Adi Gelvan is a veteran tech executive and serial entrepreneur, currently serving as the CEO of SPEEDATA, a semiconductor startup redefining analytics infrastructure with its purpose-built Analytics Processing Unit (APU). Known for his sharp operational instincts and deep technical insight, Adi joined Speedata in 2025 to lead its next stage of growth following a successful chip tape-out and expanding commercial interest in high-performance analytics workloads.

Before Speedata, Adi was the co-founder and CEO of Speedb, the high-performance key-value storage engine that served as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB. Under his leadership, Speedb tackled scalability bottlenecks in metadata-heavy workloads, culminating in its acquisition by Redis in 2024.

His earlier career includes executive roles at SQream, Infinidat, XIV, and EMC, where he consistently scaled operations and drove complex enterprise sales across the storage and big data landscape. Adi holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University.

A believer in building from the ground up, with both grit and vision, Adi has built a reputation for transforming deep tech into real-world impact.