Leader Photo Gallery
2018 Flash Storage and NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
2018 Flash Storage & NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): (top): Samsung, Intel, Pure Storage; (bottom): Mellanox, Samsung
Intel
Contributions to Innovation: Ultra-Low Latency Storage for Edge Computing (2014-2018)
PCIe NVMe Card – SSD
Ultra-Low Latency SSD
Jonmichael Hands
Product Marketing Manager/Strategic Planning, Intel Data Center SSDs
Intel
NVDIMM
Mark Henderson
Memory and Storage Product Marketing Manager
Pure Storage
All Flash FC Array
All Flash NVMe-oF Storage
Bill Cerreta
VP, Engineering
Mellanox
NVMe-oF Network Adapters
Kevin Deierling
VP, Marketing
ScaleFlux
Computational Storage
Thad Omura
EVP, Marketing
Samsung
SSD
HeeChang Cho
Principal Engineer, SW Architect, Product Planning & Storage Standard
&
Cliff Sun
Head of NAND Memory Marketing, Americas, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Samsung
NAND Flash Chips
Pablo Temprano
Head of Memory Marketing, Americas, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
&
Mian Quddus
Senior Director, Technology Enabling and Industry Standards
2017 Flash Storage and NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
Click to hear what all of the award recipients had to say about their Innovation leadership OR click on each photo to view individual winner’s video.
2017 Flash Storage & NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): Pure Storage, NetApp, Samsung, Western Digital, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung
Micron
All Flash NVMe of Storage
Eric Endebrock
VP, Storage Marketing
Mellanox
NVMe of Network Adapters
Rob Davis
VP, Storage Technology
Western Digital
PCIe NVMe Card – SSD
Anand Jayapalan
VP of Client and Enterprise Compute Solutions Marketing
Pure Storage
All Flash FC Array
Angad Narang
Director of Product Management
NetApp
All Flash NAS Array
Jeff Baxter
Chief Evangelist, ONTAP
Samsung
SSD
Jaeheon Jeong
Exec. Vice President, Solution Product & Development, Samsung Electronics
Samsung
NAND Flash Chips
KH Kyung
Vice President, Flash Product & Technology, Samsung Electronics
2016 Flash Storage/NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
Click to hear what all of the award recipients had to say about their Innovation leadership OR click on each photo to view individual winner’s video.
2016 Flash Storage/NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): Samsung, Mellanox, Micron, HPE, SanDisk, Intel, NetApp, NetApp, Samsung, Dell Storage, HPE
Intel
Most Innovative New Enterprise-Class NVM Product: 3D XPoint NVDIMM
Jim Pappas
Director of Technology Initiatives
Samsung Electronics
Contributions to NVMe Technology
(2012-2016)
Jae Jeong
EVP
Dell Storage
All Flash iSCSI Arrays
Bob Fine
Director, Product Marketing
HPE
All Flash Converged Systems
Ivan Iannaccone
WW Production Line Manager for 3PAR
HPE
Dense Low-Power Microserver
Tom Bradicich
VP & GM, Servers & IoT Systems
Mellanox
NVMe Network Adapters
John Kim
Director, Storage Marketing
Micron
NVDIMM
Tom Eby
VP, Compute & Networking Business Unit
Samsung Electronics
NVMe SSD Modules
Daniel Lee
VP, Engineering
SanDisk
Flash Cache Software
All Flash NVMe PCIe Cards
Anand Jayapalan
VP of SanDisk Client & Enterprise Compute Solutions Marketing, WD
NetApp
All Flash NAS Arrays
All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Arrays
Henri Richard
EVP of Worldwide Field and Customer Operations
NetApp
All Flash NAS Arrays
All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Arrays
Val Bercovici
SolidFire CTO
2016 Open Server Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Open Server Summit
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2016 Open Server Innovation Leaders (L to R) – Dell, IBM/Cleversafe, Super Micro Computer, Cisco, HPE, Citrix
HPE
Special Achievement: Contributions to Open Server Innovation (2012-2016)
Don Gentile
Director, Global Content Marketing, Enterprise Group
Cisco
Integrated System
Ethernet Top of Rack Switches
Marcus Phipps
Director, Data Center Solutions Marketing
Citrix
Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing
Sameer Mehta
Director of Product Management
Super Micro Computer
Servers for Software Defined Storage
Paul McLeod
Senior Product Manager
&
Alan Johnson
Director, Storage Solutions
IBM/Cleversafe
Scale out Object
Storage Software
Alex Garwood
Sales Manager, Silicon Valley & PNW
Dell
Whitebox Servers
Open Networking Switch (Bare Metal Switch)
Ravi Pendekanti
Vice President, Server Product Management
&
Bud Koch
Director, Market Intellegence, Server Solutions Management