Biography
Giora Tarnopolsky, DSc, is a magnetic recording expert,
founder of TarnoTek, a technology and management consultancy in Palo Alto,
California. He has been a data-storage-systems consultant to INSIC, the
Information Storage Industry Consortium, and Contributing editor to
Magnetics Business & Technology, the trade magazine. He is Publications
Chair of TMRC 2013 and TMRC 2012.
TarnoTek clients include major recording
technology companies, venture capital partnerships, and law firms. Client
firms are located in the USA, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and
the UK.
In 2010-2012, Dr. Tarnopolsky was VP, Technology and Intellectual
Property at Xyratex Ltd. Prior to establishing TarnoTek in 2001, Giora
managed systems integration efforts at Seagate Technology, culminating on
the demonstration of 100 Gb/in2 in longitudinal recording in 2001. At
Seagate, where he was Executive Director of Advanced Recording Technology
and of Research West, Giora developed and implemented quantitative methods
of HDD design, and received an Outstanding Technical Contributor award for
that work. Earlier, Giora was a recording physics manager at Komag, Inc.,
and at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Giora is a Senior Member of the
IEEE, a graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and holds a
doctorate in Physics from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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