Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected digital storage analyst as well as business and technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and management positions at several companies as well as 20 years as a respected consultant.
Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in it’s second edition with Springer. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis as well as Data Storage sndf Memory Technical and Business Consulting services. Tom publishes the Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, the Media and Entertainment Storage Report, the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Report and other industry reports. Tom is also a regular contributor on digital storage for Forbes.com and other blogs.
Tom is active with SMPTE (Journal article writer and Conference Program Committee), SNIA (including a founder of the SNIA SSSI), the IEEE (he is Past President of IEEE-USA, Past Chair of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee, Past Chair of the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, Past Director for IEEE Region 6, Past Chair and still active in the IEEE Santa Clara Valley section and active in the Consumer Technology Society) and other professional organizations. Tom is the founder and organizer of the Storage Visions Conferences (www.storagevisions.com as well as the Creative Storage Conferences (www.creativestorage.org). He was the general chairman of the annual Flash Memory Summit for 10 years. He is an IEEE Fellow, HKN member, and a board member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV). For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications go to www.tomcoughlin.com.
Seong Kim
As the leader of the global data center solutions architect group at AMD, Seong is focused on driving the development of data center application acceleration and offload for compute, network, and storage solutions. Seong’s recent focuses are on smart video analytics, machine learning, database acceleration, smart NIC, smart SSD and computational storage accelerations.
Seong holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA in Marketing. He has authored numerous technical papers, white papers, and patents, and has presented industry seminars. Throughout his career, Seong has developed proof-of-concept solutions for data center, wireless, and wireline applications using network processors, FPGA, x86 & ARM, and networking peripherals. He is proactively recommending courses of action to bring competitiveness to the solutions and defining the roadmap and next-generation platforms.
James Wright
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Qi Li
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Oren Beske
Dr. Oren Beske joined ATUM in 2019 and brings nearly 20 years of industry experience to the team. Notably, Dr. Beske was President of Aragen Biosciences, Inc. where he led a multidisciplinary team to bring value added services to the biologics industry. Most recently, he served as the CEO of Alloy Therapeutics, Inc. a start up antibody discovery platform company. Dr. Beske received a BS in Physiology and Biochemistry from CSULB and his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from UC San Francisco.
Tristan Höver
Tristan is the Senior Research Analyst of the Düsseldorf team at Euromonitor International. He is specialized on Pet Care and food & nutrition industries in the DACH region.In his current role, Tristan is responsible for analysing the latest trends and developments influencing the pet care, food and nutrition industries, with a focus on the German market, in a range of reports. Tristan also contributes directly to the quality of Euromonitor’s global research. His analysis has appeared in business publications like Handelsblatt and he has been a speaker at several renowned webinars and trade fairs such as Interzoo Academy, ISM Cologne and AnugaFoodTecTristan has completed an apprenticeship as an associate engineer as well as a degree in business psychology.
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