At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based COO’ operating in the Data Storage space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
John Tran
CFO & COO of Backblaze
John H. Tran is the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Backblaze. Most recently, John was the chief operating officer for ImmunGene, Inc.; a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel cancer immunotherapy. John also held executive leadership roles in various private and public companies, including companies that went through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he was an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. John received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biology and Business Economics, with an emphasis on Accounting, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. John is a certified public accountant with the State of California (inactive).
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
John Scaramuzzo
COO of Nyriad
A senior technology and innovation leader, John Scaramuzzo thrives in building high growth organizations, developing leadership talent, and driving P&L growth. For over 20 years he has been recognized for accelerating very large ventures from the ground up, exceeding revenue expectations, driving profitable M&A initiatives, and delivering innovative technology, products, and solutions. fdks As Senior Vice President of Enterprise Storage at Western Digital Corporation (WDC), formerly SanDisk, Mr. Scaramuzzo managed exceptional growth for its startup enterprise flash P&L business, from $100M to over $1B annual run rate. John worked closely with the entire executive team to ensure each aspect of the business was optimized and leveraged for maximum achievement. John combines large-scale corporate best practices with his own entrepreneurial insights and creativity. In 2010, he founded Smart Storage Systems and served as President, building a new flash drive business to $100M annually in just three years, leading to a successful exit. At SanDisk, he led the industry’s movement to replace enterprise hard drives with solid state technology, coining the phrase “All Flash Data Center.” Most recently at WDC, John pioneered technology for the world’s first storage product line using nonvolatile memory interface (NVMe) over Ethernet. John has been instrumental in several major M&A deals including serving as a key executive in the sale of Maxtor to Seagate for $2B in 2006. In 2011, John helped SMART Modular complete a sale to Silverlake Sumeru for $560M. In 2013, as President of Smart Storage, John lead the deal team in the sale of Smart Storage to SanDisk for $307M. More recently, John drove strategic executive decisions in the successful merger of SanDisk into WDC for $19B. He also was instrumental in the post-merger integration of technologies and culture between the two organizations. Previously, as General Manager of Seagate Technology’s $4.5B Enterprise Compute Division, Mr. Scaramuzzo directed a staff of 800+ worldwide, delivering an innovative roadmap, reducing operational costs and improving product time-to- market. While at Maxtor, John served as Executive Vice President, managing over 1000 engineering resources and generating $3.6B+ annual revenue. He led the enterprise business unit to record profits and developed a disruptive product strategy which led to the sale to Seagate.
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About Nyriad: Nyriad is developing the industry’s first storage solutions based on a new architecture that redefines how data is stored.
Krishna Subramanian
Founder, President & COO of Komprise
Krishna is passionate about creating business models that delight and deliver value to customers while being efficient to scale
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About Komprise: Komprise is a data management platform that analyzes, moves and manages unstructured data to reduce costs and increase data value.
Ramesh Singh
Co-Founder and COO of Agylstor
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About Agylstor: Peta-scale computational storage systems designed for some of the world’s harshest environments
Silvia Podubni
Founder / COO of TinyPCB
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About TinyPCB: Designs and Solutions for advanced packaging.