Storage and systems executives help guide expanding adoption for
Everspin’s MRAM technology
CHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#MRAM--Everspin Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of MRAM solutions,
today announced that Kevin Conley, former CTO of SanDisk, Corp., and
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Mike Gustafson, former Chairman and CEO of Virident Systems, have been
elected to Everspin’s Board of Directors. Bob England, who has served on
Everspin’s board since July 2009, will be retiring in May 2017.
Conley was Senior Vice President and CTO of SanDisk until June 2016,
where he was focused on fostering strategic innovation at the company.
Previously, he served as senior vice president and general manager of
SanDisk's Client Storage Solutions and spent over 15 years at SanDisk
holding several key system engineering leadership positions. Conley is
listed as the inventor or co-inventor on over 50 patents in the area of
non-volatile memory architecture and management.
Gustafson was Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Flash Unit of
WD/HGST and prior to that was Chairman and CEO of Virident Systems (an
enterprise flash storage software and solutions company acquired by
Western Digital Corporation in October 2013 for $685 million). Gustafson
was also President & CEO of BlueArc, a network attached storage company
(acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), and before that an executive with
McData and IBM.
“We are very pleased to have recruited two outstanding storage
executives to join our board,” said Phill LoPresti, Everspin’s President
and CEO. “Kevin and Mike’s experience in building enterprise technology
companies at scale will have an important and positive impact on
Everspin, accelerating adoption of our nvNITRO ™ products and Spin
Torque MRAM technology.”
Bob England brought a wealth of business and technical insight to
Everspin’s Board of Directors for over seven years. England was
instrumental in guiding the company in its early years after the
spin-out from Freescale Semiconductor through its Nasdaq IPO last year.
“Everspin is thankful to have received Bob’s support and guidance since
our early days. We have benefited greatly from his semiconductor
expertise and strong business instincts,” said LoPresti.
About Everspin Technologies
Everspin Technologies is the leading provider of MRAM solutions.
Everspin’s MRAM solutions offer the persistence of non-volatile memory
with the speed and endurance of random access memory (RAM), and enable
the protection of mission critical data particularly in the event of
power interruption or failure. Everspin’s MRAM solutions allow its
customers in the industrial, automotive and transportation, and
enterprise storage markets to design high performance, power efficient
and reliable systems without the need for bulky batteries or capacitors.
Everspin is the only provider of commercially available MRAM solutions
and over the past eight years has shipped over 60 million MRAM units.
For more information, visit www.everspin.com.
Contacts
Everspin Contact:
Story Public Relations
Michael
Schoolnik, 415-674-3816