Christopher Koopmans

President & COO, Marvell Technology

Search every verified Christopher Koopmans interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On August 3, 2021, Marvell Technology announced its acquisition of Innovium, a venture-backed switching company, for $955 million. Chris Koopmans, then Chief Operations Officer at Marvell, stated that the acquisition "complements what Marvell is doing perfectly and really broadens and rounds out our portfolio of offerings for our hyperscale data center customers." He described Innovium as a company with "a very rich set of IP, a great team" that had been able to "penetrate key accounts and generate sizable revenue" as a startup. Koopmans explained that Innovium's switching technology is used in data center platforms, connecting servers in top-of-rack configurations and aggregating packets through spine, leaf, and DCI layers. He said the combination of Innovium's switching assets with Marvell's existing physical-layer technology would allow Marvell to "give some really innovative solutions to the customers" and be "very aggressive in investments" in the data center space.