Amyl Ahola brings more than 40 years of storage industry experience to Pliant Technology. Prior to joining Pliant, Amyl served as president and CEO at TeraStor Corporation. Ahola has also held several executive management positions at Seagate Technology, including vice president and general manager, Tape Products, vice president of corporate development, vice president of marketing and vice president of product line management.  Previously he served as president and CEO of WangDat and of Optical Storage International (OSI).  Prior to OSI, Ahola held a number of executive positions with the pioneering storage and supercomputer company, Control Data Corporation.  He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Mike Chenery is a co-founder and president of Pliant Technology.  Before founding Pliant, he served as the vice president of advanced engineering at Fujitsu Computer Products of America.  At Fujitsu, he developed and managed the creation of an advanced architecture development group, as well as the design and introduction of three new serial interfaces.  Under Chenery's leadership, the launch of these products helped dramatically enhance the market perception of Fujitsu's technical leadership capabilities.  He has more than 35 years of experience in the storage industry, and has held senior management positions with Memorex, Unisys, Andor Technology, and Micropolis Corporation.  Chenery holds the equivalent of a B.S. in Electrical Technology from the South-East London Technical College.

Doug Prins is a co-founder and chief architect for Pliant Technology.  Prior to co-founding Pliant, he spent 10 years as an engineering consultant for Fujitsu Computer Products of America.  Prins designed and prototyped a number of hardware and software algorithms, including a serial protocol handler that supports the Serial Attached SCSI and the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop protocols. He was also awarded patents on caching algorithms.  Prior to Fujitsu, Prins held a senior architecture and design position at QLogic, where he created several unique industry designs, including a patented disk formatter.  Prins holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Aaron Olbrich is a co-founder and CTO of Pliant Technology.  Prior to co-founding Pliant, he was the director of hardware architecture for Fujitsu Computer Products of America.  During his Fujitsu tenure, Olbrich worked closely with Doug Prins, co-founder and chief architect of Pliant, to jointly design and model software algorithms and hardware architectures.  He has been awarded two patents for technologies that resulted in best-in-class performance for Fujitsu's mobile and enterprise-class drives.  Prior to Fujitsu, Olbrich worked at IBM's disk drive division where he was the lead engineer responsible for the development of a ground breaking two-actuator disk drive, and was awarded two patents for his queuing algorithm design.  Olbrich holds a B.S. degree (Suma Cum Laude) in electrical engineering from Washington State University.

William Dobbin is the CFO at Pliant Technology.   Prior to joining Pliant, Dobbin was the CFO and co-founder for TeraStor Corporation, an optical disc drive start-up company.  From 1988 to 1996, Dobbin was a General Partner of Capform Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund.  Previously, he was the founding CFO and senior vice president of Maxtor Corporation, where he helped lead the company from a venture capital backed start-up to a publicly held Fortune 500 company.  Prior to joining Maxtor, Dobbin was vice president of finance and administration for a U.S. subsidiary of CII Honeywell Bull of France and corporate controller for Shugart Associates. He has also held various financial management positions with General Motors.  Dobbin holds a B.S. degree in accounting and an M.B.A. in finance from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

With more than 20 years of technology and international expertise, Greg Goelz brings a variety of marketing, product management, and business development skills to Pliant. Prior to joining Pliant, he was the vice president of marketing at UPEK, Inc. where he helped establish the company's leadership position in the PC market for trusted fingerprint biometric solutions. Goelz was also with SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.), as vice president and general manager of workstations and Intel-based servers. In the past, Goelz has held senior global marketing and sales management positions at several leading companies including Iomega Corporation and Conner Peripherals. Goelz was also the vice president of marketing of startup StorCard, Inc., where he was responsible for all facets of the go-to-market strategy. Goelz has a B.S. in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and a Masters in business administration from the University of San Diego.

Eric brings nearly twenty years of executive and senior-level sales experience in the storage, server and HPC industries to Pliant Technology.  As vice president of sales, Eric heads Pliant's global sales operations and market development activities.  Prior to joining Pliant, Eric served as director and general manager for the Professional Products Division of PNY Technologies, where he was responsible for all aspects of the division, including new market development and revenue growth.  Before PNY Technologies, he was vice president and general manager of the Americas Operations at Elsa Inc., and has previously held management positions at Silicon Graphics, VARstreet.com, Iomega Corporation, and Micropolis Corporation.  He holds an MBA from Duquesne University. 

Frank Kull has more than 15 years of operations experience in leading high-technology companies through dynamic and high growth markets. In his new role, Kull will manage Pliant’s overall manufacturing operations, including supply chain management, cost management, logistics and quality control. Prior to joining Pliant, Kull was the head of Enterprise Manufacturing at Google, Inc., focusing on new product introduction, supply chain flexibility, cost management, quality, and scalability. He has also held senior management positions at Cisco and Polycom. Kull holds a masters degree from the University of San Francisco, and has a B.S. degree in business management from San Jose State University.

Mark Delsman brings more than 25 years of engineering experience at leading high-technology companies to Pliant Technology. He has an extensive background in engineering management, product execution and technology strategy. Prior to joining Pliant, Delsman was the vice president of software engineering for Dot Hill Systems, where he was in charge of developing the company's software value-add strategy and products for the entry and midrange storage solutions markets. He also previously served as the senior director of software engineering for NetApp and as CTO and vice president of engineering for Adaptec. Delsman has additional experience with industry leading storage providers such as Seagate Technology, Conner Peripherals and Maxtor. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.