History 2003: Al Shugart Keeps on Ticking
Named director on board of start-up Blackball
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 12, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Al Shugart, the legendary former CEO of Seagate Technology, just keeps on ticking.
He has just been named a director on the board of start-up Blackball, a developer of storage software providing descriptive metadata indexing for rich media files.
The new company was founded by former Seagate Software VP Bob Brown.
The fledgling firm’s advisory board includes Tony Bautista, CEO of Storactive, Dave Galiotto, VP strategic planning at Veritas, and Don Flanagan, former VP WW sales at Seagate and now chairman of Storactive.
This article is an abstract of news published on issue 188 on September 2003 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.
Note: Shugart dies at 76 on December 2006.
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