Dr. Ike Nassi Technical Advisory Board’s Member, Skyera

Skyera Inc. announced that former SAP EVP and chief scientist Ike Nassi has become the third member of the Skyera Advisory Board.

He joins previously announced electrical engineering academics Tong Zhang and Ken Takeuchi on the board to provide Skyera management with technical insights that will help them continue to deliver enterprise solid-state storage systems.

 Nassi currently serves as a researcher in the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. Past industry executive experience has included positions at Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, Visual Technology and Digital Equipment Corporation. He also helped start three companies: Encore Computer (symmetric multiprocessors), InfoGear Technology (Internet appliance and services – acquired by Cisco) and Firetide (wireless mesh networks).

He has provided industry consultancy to several start-up companies, start-up divisions within established companies and VC firms. He is also on the advisory boards of Northwestern University, Stony Brook University and Peking University. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Berkeley and MIT, and is currently a research affiliate at MIT/CSAIL.

Nassi holds a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the Department of Defense and was a member of DARPA’s Information Systems and Technology group. He graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, and a M.S. and PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

"Ike has an exceptional background in both his professional and teaching careers and brings to the Skyera Advisory Board a wealth of knowledge and experience for us to leverage," said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Skyera CEO. "With Ike joining Tong and Ken, we are assured of continuing our exciting work in the field of solid-state storage as we challenge the entrenchment of disk at enterprises worldwide with the promise of unparalleled performance, speed and capacity at much-improved cost, power and space requirements."