Founder, CEO and Board Member

Andy has 30+ years of experience in the storage industry as a leader and innovator having held executive positions at Kioxia, WD, Samsung, Sandforce, and Sandisk. He has many storage related patents, is a visionary storage architect and technology expert who has presented multiple times at industry conventions such as Flash Memory Summit and Storage Developer Conference. Linkedin

Founder, Architect & Design Lead

25 years ASIC Design/Architecture experience. 13 years storage ASIC Design/Architecture, Sandforce/Seagate/Kioxia. Multiple successful SSD chips delivered. Co-founder of Lateral Sands, AUS based ASIC design center with 30 engineers. Linkedin

Board Member

John has 30+ years’ storage industry experience as an entrepreneur who led several successful exits, including Smart Storage, and held executive positions with Western Digital, SanDisk, Seagate, and Maxtor.

Investor, Board Member

Samir has 20+ years of industry experience in different domains with more than 15 years in large scale compute and storage infrastructures at Yahoo, Verizon Media and Roblox. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.