Michael Cornwell CTO, Qumulo

Qumulo, Inc. announced that Michael Cornwell has joined as CTO.

He joins Qumulo from Microsoft, where he served as the GM of storage technologies for Azure Infrastructure, and led innovation and adoption of new memory and storage across the Azure platform and services.

“From the very beginning, Qumulo has assembled a team of passionate, customer-obse+ssed people who love data and solving storage challenges with software and the cloud,” said Bill Richter, CEO. “Michael’s unique technical background in storage, from the early days of flash to public cloud, combined with his experience building admired companies, makes him an outstanding addition to our leadership team.”

Prior to his time at Microsoft, Cornwell spent 8 years at Pure Storage as a founding engineer, and served in management roles including as VP and CTO for the AsiaPac and Japan region. He led the development of Pure’s first all-flash hardware platform, then grew the company’s business in the APJ market from zero to more than $100 million in revenue.

He also led pioneering storage development at Sun Microsystems and Apple. He was the lead technologist for flash systems at Sun Microsystems, and drove the development of the industry’s first flash platforms designed for enterprise applications that were the underpinning for many Sun/Oracle Exadata products. He also oversaw storage engineering at the Apple iPod/iPhone division, delivering the storage solution for 9 iPod and 3 iPhone  gens, including the first adoption of flash memory.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has been awarded 68 US patents in storage technologies.

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