Gary Smerdon

Highly accomplished technology executive with 25+ years of developing innovative strategies and leading organizations to achieve transformative growth and significantly increase shareholder value. Successful in various executive positions including Chief Executive Officer, Marketing Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, VP of Business Development, VP of Sales, and GM.

Proven track record of predicting trends, setting the strategy, and bringing to market groundbreaking, market-driven products in storage, networking, security, software, and semiconductors at leading corporations as well as startups.

Skilled at envisioning and leading significant initiatives and closing deals that catapult companies/business units to new levels. Founded and led the fastest-growing business in LSI’s history, ramping to $100M in revenue in less than 24 months. Led the acquisition of SandForce by LSI for $400M, the selling of Fusion-io to SanDisk for $1.3B, and the funding for startups securing $50M+ from Seed Round to Series C investments from major VC’s including Sequoia Capital and Walden International.

Experienced board member and observer at leading startups including Greenfield Networks, SandForce, 3Leaf Systems, and Teranetics.