Legendary Finis Conner Back in Industry With BluStor Secure Smart Card

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Finis Conner's career was launched when he co-founded Shugart Associates in 1973, where they produced and sold 8-inch floppy and HDDs. The company was sold to Xerox Corporation in 1977. Then he co-founded Seagate Technology and then founded Conner Peripherals (eventually acquired for a tidy sum by Seagate), both of them very successful HDD companies. Later he failed miserably with Conner Technologies launched in 1999 to produce low-cost HDDs and then with StorCard in 2002, a new venture offering a smart card integrating a tiny floppy disk. In 2008, he was involved in a start-up, iGotchr, without any relation with storage, developing an app package that enables PC/laptop to become a security device by detecting motion. Later in 2011 he was for only five months CEO of Millenniata, in long-term archiving media. Over his career, his companies were responsible for creating in excess of 160,000 technology jobs. He was also elected at the board of advisor of 5BARz. Now he is president and CEO of BluStor trying to sell a platform, as an alternative to today's smart cards, that provides secure identity authentication for health and national ID applications with the use of Bluetooth, cryptography, multi-factor biometrics, multi-gigabyte on flash, and including thin rechargeable thin rechargeable lithium ion battery. But it will take a long way to impose a new standard of smart card that needs standardization and the support of big companies. In the start-up you have also Harvey Kroll as COO, who was SVP corporate at Conner Peripherals. BluStor has raised an undisclosed sum from private investors last April.   Read also: Finis Conner Board's Advisor, 5BARz Founder of Conner Peripherals, co-founder of Seagate Finis Conner Left Millenniata After only five months as CEO Legendary Finis Conner Back in Storage Industry As CEO of Millenniata Comeback of Legendary Finis Conner In software! (iGotchr)