David Bradford CEO of Fusion-io

David Bradford has replaced Don Basile as CEO of Fusion-io, in high-end solid state storage device and having OEMs including HP and IBM. The U.S. start-up, based in Salt Lake City, is becoming  a strong actor in this field with STEC.

David Bradford

Bradford joined Fusion-io as a consultant in June of 2008 and was then its senior VP in September of 2008. Recently he helped convince Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, to join the company as its chief scientist.

From 1985-2000, he served as senior VP and general counsel of Novell. His responsibilities spanned four different divisions including legal, government relations, business development and security. During his last three years at Novell, he reported to Eric Schmidt, now chairman and CEO of Google.

For the past 10 years, he has been on the board of directors of Pervasive Software of Austin, Texas. Today he serves as the chair of the Audit Committee of this database company.

From 2001 to 2008, he was engaged in a variety of work including serving as a partner with one of the Top Ten Law firms in the U.S., Greenberg Traurig, as general counsel of Dynix Corporation, supplier of Library Software, and as general counsel to the Governor Elect of Utah, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. Additionally, he served as CEO, founder and advisor to multiple Web 2.0 and social networking companies. Bradford has also been active in the private equity markets and continues to serve as a senior advisor to Huntsman-Gay Equity Partners.

He has been honored as the Alumnus of the Year from the Brigham Young University Law School and served as chairman of the Business Software Alliance. He has a Law Degree from Brigham Young University, a Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Brigham Young University.

Bradford is also known as a pioneer of Social Entrepreneurism. He was featured in the PBS special, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. He is married to Linda, a Ph.D. candidate in her own right, and together they have 4 children and reside in Provo, Utah. Linda refers to her husband as the Human Internet.