Management Team

Pliant Technology was formed by several of the foremost experts and innovators in the data storage industry.  The Pliant executive team collectively has more than 100 years of storage industry experience developing new technologies, bringing products to market, rapidly capturing dominant market share, and providing significant returns to investors:

• Jim McCoy, Chairman – Co-Founder of Maxtor and Quantum
• Amyl Ahola, CEO – Former CEO of TeraStor, vice president at Seagate and Control Data
• Mike Chenery, President/Founder – Former vice president of advanced product engineering at Fujitsu
• Doug Prins, Founder / Chief Architect – Former consultant for Fujitsu, Emulex and Q-Logic
• Aaron Olbrich, Founder / CTO – Formerly at Fujitsu and IBM
• William Dobbin, CFO – Formerly with TeraStor and Maxtor. 
• Greg Goelz, Vice President of Marketing
• Gary Stager, Vice President of Engineering
• Marty DiPietro, Vice President of Operations
• Douglas Derwin, IP Attorney/Director – Formerly at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Intertrust Technologies

News & Events

• 06/02/2008
  Pliant Technology names Greg Goelz Vice President of Marketing read more »
• 04/15/2008
  Pliant Technology names Gary Stager Vice President of Engineering read more »
• 02/19/2008
  Pliant Technology receives $8 million in Series A funding to develop new class of enterprise solid state storage devices read more »