Smart IOPS

Mr. Das is founder and CEO of Smart IOPS. Prior to forming Smart IOPS, he held the position of Director of Advanced Technology at Juniper Network. While in Juniper Mr. Das was responsible for putting together next generation of IC technology team focused on delivering next generation of networking ICs. Mr. Das has over 28 years of industry experience. Previously Mr. Das was engaged in the formation of two other companies. Apart from his business acumen, Mr. Das brings deep understanding and knowledge of designing complex systems spanning across multiple discipline, and deliver the completed product to market. Througout his career Mr. Das has been involved in pioneering projects in Intel, Sun Microsystems, Nexsi Systems, Juniper Networks, to name a few. Mr. Das has been granted several paents and holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

Dr. d’Abreu is the co-founder and SVP R&D at Smart IOPS. An IEEE Life Fellow before founding Smart IOPS, Dr. d’Abreu was a senior Fellow at AMD and SanDisk, where most recently at the company’s Corporate Engineering organization he applied his expertise in memory management and error correction. Dr. d’Abreu has more than 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His experience and expertise spans the system-on-chip and system-in- package design, test and manufacturing disciplines, Signal processing, Fault Tolerant Computing, as well as flash storage technology and coding theory. As an active member of the professional high tech community, he is a special advisor to the National Science Foundation and an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University. His work has been published at more than 50 technical conferences and in industry technical journals. He has been granted 45 patents. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to co-founding Smart IOPS, Mr. Nair served as Director of Systems Engineering at SanDisk. Mr. Nair has extensive experience in developing flash memory-based systems and holds several patents in computer and storage systems. Mr. Nair has over 28 years of experience developing storage systems, microprocessors and ASICs, and hundreds of millions of units of such products have been sold globally. His prior experience includes engineering leadership at Micron, HAL Computer Systems, S3 and C-DoT. Mr. Nair is a mentor to several start-ups that have successfully evolved into revenue and volume production. Mr. Nair received a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University of Kerala, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.