About

Management Team

The senior management team includes veteran executives who have worked together previously to build some of the fastest growing companies in history.

Finis Conner

President, CEO

For his entire career Finis Conner has correctly identified and executed winning trends in the lightning-fast technology industry. Conner’s experience in selling, designing and manufacturing hard disk drives played a major role in creating the multi-trillion dollar, global technology market. Mr. Conner has been pivotal in migrating computing from floor towers, desktops, laptops—and now to your pocket—with smaller devices, higher capacity and lower costs. In 1979, Conner conceived the original 5 ¼-inch, 5MB Winchester disc drive, and co-founded Seagate Technology (STX-NASDAQ) to market the device. In 1986, Conner developed the 3½-inch hard drive and launched Conner Peripherals. Conner Peripherals became the fastest-growing manufacturing company in U.S. history, growing to $1.4 billion in sales in only its fourth year, and $2.7 billion in its tenth year.


Harvey Kroll

COO

Harvey Kroll is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in operational and administrative management, specializing in domestic and international start-up environments. He is responsible for the operations and administration of BluStor. Previously, Harvey was Senior Vice President, Corporate, at Conner Peripherals, Inc., where he was responsible for worldwide operations and administration, including Human Resources and building and staffing of facilities in the Far East, Japan and Scotland. Earlier he was Vice President, HR and Administration, at Excite@Home, where he staffed the operation for a public offering.


An Van Le

CTO

An Van Le has over 28 years of experience in the computer and information technology industries, specializing in Networks and Data Security, Computer Architectures, Computer Hardware and Software Developments. He was Chief Security Architect and Director of Software Development at StorCard Inc. Previously An worked for National Semiconductor's Aerospace division, where he was responsible for the security architecture for the products in the division. Earlier An spent seven years as a security architect at the IBM cryptographic Center of Competence, a corporate organization that developed the security architectures, cryptographic algorithms. He holds 24 issued patents and several patents on file, and has published over 20 papers and technical disclosures in the area of computer architecture and data security.