Our management team
Dr. John C. Scott, President and Chief Executive Officer
Wolfgang Dirks, Chief Technical Officer & VP Engineering
Richard Wright, Chief Financial Officer
Howard Wing, Director of Sales
Mike Dikas, Director of Marketing
Donn Denman, Director of Software
Dr. John Scott, President & CEO John's experience includes over 30 years as an executive with Memorex, Apple, Siemens, and his own start up companies. He formed Akashic Memories, a leading producer of high performance thin film disks later sold to Kubota, and Aura Memories, developer of the 1.8inch HDD and one of the first digital cameras (the first with HDD storage).
Wolfgang Dirks Wolfgang was formerly an executive with Apple and Quantum where he was responsible for developing many successful products in the laptop, HDD and enterprise server arena. He has vast experience in the development of reliable audio/ visual products.
Richard Wright, CFO Richard has over 25 years experience working with emerging companies. He has founded and built a number of successful companies in the financial, technology and service fields. Many of these businesses have been international in scope. Richard is a principal in the CPA firm Wright/Kirby and a business valuation expert.
Howard Wing, Director of Sales Howard has over 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the data storage market for optical disk drives, hard disk drives, tape drives and removable media solutions. Prior to ATO, Howard was vice president, sales and marketing for Plextor Corp., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance optical disk drives and video capture devices. Howard has also held senior sales and marketing positions with Swan Magnetics, MaxOptix, Conner Peripherals, CaliPer, Storage Technology and Xerox Corporation.
Mike Dikas, Director of Marketing/Communications Mike has over 25 years of experience in the marketing communications field on the agency side at Tycer, Fultz, Bellack/BBDO and on the client side as Managing Director of Communications for Maxim Integrated Products. Mike is a principal in the product development firm, Emdal, Inc., where he has two U.S. patents.
Donn Denman, Director of Software Donn started his 25 years of professional software development with 14 years at Apple. During that time he worked on MacBASIC for the original Macintosh and was a principal developer of AppleScript. Donn has worked on set-top boxes for the 3DO company and PowerTV. Most recently Donn has been programming in Python for the Open Source Applications Foundation.
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