John serves as the VP of Advanced Technology for FreeWire. He brings over 40 years of control system design, circuit design, and management experience in the data storage and semiconductor industries. In the AT group at Maxtor, John led the team that delivered key technology including the self-servo capability, considered one of the biggest process improvements in the company’s history. He has helped launch a number of startup companies including Storage Genetics, which pioneered capacity enhancements in flash memory and was later purchased by Micron Technology. John holds 13 US patents and has a degree in Math and Physics from Hartwick College in New York.