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Mike Chenery
Mike Chenery is Co-Founder of Pliant Technology, Inc. and serves as its President. Mr. Chenery served as Vice President at Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. He has more than 35 years of experience in the engineering industry. Prior to joining Fujitsu in 1995, he served as Vice President of Development at Andor Corporation where he was responsible for the development of remote dual copy storage controllers. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Micropolis Corporation where his responsibilities included the development of a disk drive RAID subsystem. He has also served as Director of Engineering, Memorex Corporation; Manager of Engineering, Unisys Corporation; Firmware Engineering and European Product Manager Memorex Corporation; and Technical Support Engineer, Control Data Corporation. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Technology from the South-East London Technical College.
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Doug Prins
Doug Prins Co-founded Pliant Technology Inc. and serves as its Chief Architect. Mr. Prins worked 10 years as an Engineering Consultant for Fujitsu Computer Products of America. He designed and prototyped a number of hardware and software algorithms, including a serial protocol handler that supports the Serial Attached SCSI and the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop protocols, and he was also awarded patents on caching algorithms. Prior to Fujitsu, he held a senior architecture and design position at QLogic, where he created several unique industry designs, including a patented disk formatter. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Aaron Olbrich
Aaron Olbrich is a co-founder of Pliant Technology, Inc. and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Olbrich served as a Director of Hardware Architecture at Fujitsu Computer Products of America. During his six years at Fujitsu, he co-designed, and model software algorithms and hardware architectures. Prior to Fujitsu, he worked at IBM's disk drive division where he served as a Lead Engineer and was responsible for the development of a ground breaking two-actuator disk drive. He awarded two patents for technologies that resulted in best-in-class performance for Fujitsu's mobile and enterprise-class drives. He awarded two patents for his queuing algorithm design. Mr. Olbrich holds a B.S. Degree (Suma Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.
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