DRAMeXchange Memory Storage Conference | Computex Taipei 2012

Speakers

Speakers are placed in the order of their speeches


Speakers' Name: Jocelyn Chen
Job title: Vice President of Marketing
Company name: TrendForce Corp.
Topic: Welcoming Speech

Jocelyn Chen is the Vice President of Marketing at Trendforce Corp. Shanghai. Ms. Chen joined Trendforce Corp. in Taipei in 2005, and since then has been involved in every aspect of public relationships, marketing and sales-related activities.

She is in charge of the development and function of marketing and sales team. Moreover, she also organized the very first international conference of Trendforce Corp. in June, 2006 at Computex Taipei. Ms. Chen established a structure for all the following corporate events.

Prior to joining Trendforce Corp., Ms. Chen worked as an event coordinator for an European firm for years. In this role, she worked with major IT shows in pan Europe.
Ms. Chen received her master's degree in Public Management from the SDA Bocconi Business School in Milan, Italy.


Speakers' Name: Kevin Conley
Job title: SVP and GM, Client Storage Solutions
Company name: SanDisk Corporation
Topic: SSDs: Enabling the Next Wave of Growth in the PC Industry

Kevin Conley has served as senior vice president of solid state drives since January 2011. Previously, Conley was vice president of engineering at Corsair from 2009 to 2010. Conley worked for SanDisk from 1993 until 2009, holding positions as vice president of research and development for audio/video products, senior director of product system engineering and director of system engineering and product development.

Prior to joining SanDisk, he worked as an engineer and an engineering manager in the hard disk drive industry. Conley is listed as the inventor or co-inventor on 50 patents in the area of non-volatile memory architecture and management.

Conley earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and his master's degree in computer science and engineering from Santa Clara University.


Speakers' Name: Ryusuke Kashiwabara
Job title: Marketing Sec. Senior Manager
Company name: Toshiba Corporation
Topic: Toshiba – Future of Storage

2005 June Graduated from University of California, Irvine with Social Science Major
2006 Apr. Start career at Fujitsu Ltd. in Storage products unit Business Planning Dept.
2009 Oct. Transferred to Toshiba Storage Device Corporation. HDD business unit Sales Support Dept.
2011 Apr. Transferred to Toshiba Corporation. HDD business unit Enterprise storage marketing Dept.
2012 Jan. Transferred to Toshiba Digital Media Network Corporation HDD Div. Marketing Dept.


Speakers' Name: Lenny Sharp
Job title: Director, Product Marketing Desktop and Mobile
Company name: HGST, a Western Digital Company
Topic: HGST 7mm HDDs Enabling Mainstream Ultrabooks

As the HGST director of Product Marketing for desktop and mobile products, Lenny Sharp is focused on defining and delivering innovative hard disk drive solutions that effectively meet the needs of the customer base. Mr. Sharp and his team operate across multiple functional organizations to ensure that market requirements are addressed through the entire development process, and that the resulting product portfolio competitively positions HGST in the desktop and mobile market segments.

With more than 25 years of experience in product marketing and product management in the high-technology sector, Mr. Sharp previously was senior director of Product Marketing for desktop and consumer electronics hard disk drives at Maxtor Corporation.

Mr. Sharp's background spans a range of technologies and markets. Just prior to HGST, he was vice president of marketing for a venture-funded solar startup. He also held senior positions in product marketing and management with display, semiconductor, software and computer systems companies, including Dell, Philips and Western Digital.


Speakers' Name: Kyle Zhou
Job title: VP Sales and General Manager
Company name: Biwin Semiconductor (HK) Company Limited
Topic: Get Ready for SSD Era

Kyle Zhou joined BIWIN since year 2001. As VP Sales and General Manager of Biwin Semiconductor (HK) Limited, he has been dedicated to sales and marketing of NAND Flash memory products for more than 11 years. He is one of the cooperate founders who are responsibe for developing cooperate strategy for company growth according to the industry trend.

Speakers' Name: Scott Graham
Job title: General Manager, Hybrid Memory Cube Technology
Company name: Micron Technology, Inc.
Topic: HMC Overview - A revolutionary approach to system memory

Scott Graham is the General Manager of Hybrid Memory Cube technology at Micron Technology. Mr. Graham joined Micron in 1994 as an applications engineer in the personal computing division. He has held various managerial positions within Micron and has spent the last 11 years in Micron's memory products division, working on technical marketing for DRAM and NAND memory products. In recent years, Mr. Graham has represented Micron in various organizations responsible for setting industry standards, holding numerous Vice-Chair, Chair, and board-level positions.

Mr. Graham holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry University and a micro-MBA certification from Boise State University.


Speakers' Name: Avril Wu (Yating Wu)
Job title: Senior Manager
Company name: Trendforce Corp.
Topic: The Reshaping DRAM Industry - 2012 and Beyond

Avril Wu , Senior Manager at DRAMeXchange, is charge of DRAM industry market analyze, related upstream wafer suppliers, DRAM makers, module packaging and testing industries.

Before joined DRAMeXchange, she was served in AsusTek for 3 years, and in Hynix strategic marketing.

She received her Master of Internal Management Degree (2006) at Portland State University. She gets the admission of GMBA in National Taiwan University as her 2nd master degree.


Speakers' Name: Sean Yang
Job title: Assistant Vice President, Memory and Storage Division
Company name: Trendforce Corp.
Topic: 2012 NAND Flash Outlook-Smartphone, Tablet and Ultrabook

Sean Yang is NAND Flash Assistant Vice President at DRAMeXchange. His research mainly bases on the demand side of NAND Flash, covering hardware devices from mobile PC, tablet PC, smartphone and other consumer electronics.

He worked at international IC design firm at Hsing-Chu Science Park as an investor relationship administrator and a finance administrator before joining DRAMeXchange. Mr. Yang received his MBA degree from University of California, Riverside in 2007.


Speakers' Name: Doreet Oren
Job title: Director of Product Marketing
Company name: SanDisk Corporation
Topic: Panel Discussion

Doreet Oren is Director of Product Marketing for SanDisk SSD products. Oren is in charge of Outbound Marketing and the official SSD spokesperson for SanDisk. She is responsible for delivering new product announcements and communicating SanDisk vision to the media. Oren often lectures and gives training to both external and internal audience at a variety of conferences.

Oren has over 20 years of industry experience, and has held management positions in R&D, product management and marketing for international high-tech companies. Oren has published articles in international journals, including Component Times, New Electronics and Embedded Computing. She has spoken at industry conferences such as Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, DRAMeXchange in Taiwan and Shenzen, and in the Semiconductor Memory Symposium and IDEMA in Japan.

Oren received a BSc in Computer Science from George Washington University.


Speakers' Name: Nelson Duann
Job title: VP of Product Marketing
Company name: Silicon Motion, Inc.
Topic: Panel Discussion

Nelson Duann is Vice President in charge of mobile storage and multimedia SoC product marketing at Silicon Motion, a position he has held since September 2010. He joined Silicon Motion in August 2007 as a product marketing director and R&D team leader. Mr. Duann has almost 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in product design, development and marketing.

Prior to Silicon Motion, he worked for Sun Microsystems Inc., focusing on UltraSPARC Micro Processor projects.

Mr. Duann holds an MS in Communication Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.


 

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