BIOGRAPHY

Thomas M. Coughlin

T. M. Coughlin has a Bachelor degree in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science from the University of Minnesota. He also has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan.  His 25+ years of magnetic recording experience included flexible tape and floppy as well as rigid disk recording at such companies as Polaroid, Seagate Technology, Maxtor, Micropolis, Nashua Computer Products, Ampex and SyQuest. He has been active with IDEMA where he is chairman or a member of several committees. He is a senior member of the IEEE, was publicity chairman of the 1992, 1996, 2002, and 2004 TMRC conferences and is a past chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Magnetics Society, past chairman of the SCV Consumer Electronics Society and current Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section. He is also a member of the Administrative Committee for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.  He has organized magnetic recording Symposia from 1997-2002 for IIST at Santa Clara University where he was also an adjunct professor. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Association of Computer Machinery, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the American Vacuum Society.

Since 1997 Tom has written market and technology analysis reports and articles including the Digital Entertainment series focusing on data storage and the creation, distribution and reception of entertainment content,  Disk Drive Test and Process Equipment Report and various other reports. He has given technology and market assessment presentations at the annual Storage Visions and Creative Storage conferences (which he started and organizes), IDEMA and IIST Symposia and for the IEEE Magnetics Society as well as the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He has published over 50 articles, reports, technical papers and presentations. He has provided marketing, intellectual property and technology assessments and projections for several data storage technology companies, company analysts, and venture capitalists including Engenio, Network Appliance, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, and The Woodside Fund. In addition he has served as project and general manager for technical projects involving budgets of several million dollars.

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