Scott Shadley

Scott Shadley, is a Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist at Solidigm, where his focus is on efforts to drive adoption of new storage technologies, including computational storage, storage-based AI, and post quantum cryptography. Over his 27 years in the semiconductor and storage space, Scott has been involved in wafer production, process engineering, R&D design engineering, and most recently in customer-focused roles involving Marketing and Strategic Planning.

Scott has been a key figure in promoting SNIA as a now third-term Board member where he has led the computational storage efforts as former Co-Chair of the SNIA Computational Storage Technical Working Group. He is currently serving as the Co-Chair on the Communications Steering Committee, driving the outward vision of SNIA and its technology efforts, and a member of the Executive Committee.

Scott also participates in several additional industry efforts including the Open Compute Project (OCP), Linux Foundation, and NVM Express.

Previously with NGD Systems, Scott was the VP of Marketing and developed and managed their Computational Storage portfolio. Prior to that, at Micron, he managed the Product Marketing team, was the Business Line Manager for the SATA SSD portfolio, and finished his stay at Micron as the Principal Technologist for the SSD and emerging memory portfolio.

Scott is a subject matter expert in SSD technology and semiconductor design technologies, and is ever evolving his experience and knowledge in the storage stack. Scott earned a BSEE in Device Physics from Boise State University, and an MBA in Marketing from the Univ. of Phoenix.