Milind Karnik SVP of Global Engineering, QLogic

QLogic Corp. appointed Milind Karnik to the position of SVP of global engineering, effective immediately.
 
 He has more than 28 years of executive leadership experience in the server and storage industries and joins QLogic following key roles as SVP of WW engineering at LSI’s enterprise storage group and silicon R&D division, VP of product test at Dell and GM of the platform validation and engineering group at Intel.

He has a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and holds several patents in the area of computer architecture.
 
“We are extremely pleased to have Milind join QLogic as our SVP of global engineering,” said Prasad Rampalli, president and CEO, QLogic. “He brings a unique set of technical leadership and management experience that will enhance our executive team.”
 
“QLogic’s cutting edge technology in both its FC and Ethernet products provides high-performance, scalability and efficiency for servers and storage leveraging the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors,” said Karnik. “I am excited about joining QLogic and leading the global engineering team as the company capitalizes on the growth opportunities with the Grantley server refresh cycle underway.“
                      
Karnik will report to Rampalli.