John Scaramuzzo Senior VP and GM at Storage Business Unit of Smart Modular Technologies

SMART Modular Technologies announced the appointment of John Scaramuzzo as SMART’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage Business Unit. Mr. Scaramuzzo’s appointment will be effective on January 4, 2010, and he will report directly to Iain MacKenzie, SMART’s President and CEO. John’s key areas of responsibilities will include all of SMART’s storage business in the enterprise, industrial, defense and aerospace sectors.

"We are pleased to welcome John to SMART’s executive management team. He brings the expertise and track record of a seasoned storage executive with considerable experience in management as well as product development at Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum and Digital Equipment," commented Mr. MacKenzie. "We look forward to leveraging his specialized background and extensive industry knowledge to lead our storage team and to accelerate SMART’s expansion into new market opportunities."

  Mr. Scaramuzzo’s wide-ranging industry experience culminates from having held several executive and senior level engineering positions in major data storage companies. Most recently from 2008 to 2009, he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Seagate Technology’s Enterprise Compute business unit, where he led the rotating and solid state storage businesses as well as ASIC Technology development. Prior to his Enterprise Compute business unit role, John was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Quality Operations from 2006 to 2008. From 2001 to 2006 John was at Maxtor Corporation (acquired by Seagate in 2006) where he held the roles of Executive Vice President, Worldwide Product Development and Research with responsibility for all product and technology development for the Enterprise and Desktop business units, as well as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Products Division, and Vice President of Enterprise Product Development. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Scaramuzzo held several positions at Quantum Corporation including Director of Product Development for the Enterprise Drive Product Line and the Engineering Manager for several of Quantum’s hard disk drive products. Mr. Scaramuzzo began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1987 as a Senior Design Manager for their hard disk drive products.

He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Electrical Science from Harvard University. He also holds three U.S. patents related to disk drive technology and applications.

Mr. Scaramuzzo commented: "I am excited to be joining SMART and continuing the company’s tradition of excellence and innovation. I look forward to working together with Iain MacKenzie and the rest of the team as we introduce new products that will enhance SMART’s storage business and expand the company’s leadership in the emerging solid state storage market."