Gordon Knight
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Knight is our Chief Executive Officer.  Prior to joining Nanochip in 2002 Dr. Knight founded three optical storage companies:  Optimem, Inc., Maxoptix Corporation, and TeraStor Corporation where he served in various capacities including Chief Technical Officer, Vice President of Engineering, and President.  He also directed the optical storage research activities with Xerox Corporation at Xerox PARC during the 1970’s.  Dr. Knight holds a B.S.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.E.E. from Stanford University.

Donald Adams
Vice President of Engineering

Don has been with NanoChip since May 2004 as Vice President of Engineering.  Prior to joining NanoChip he was an Engineering Director at Maxtor and Quantum for a total of 13 years where he put more than six leading edge high volume HDDs into production.  He also founded the Consumer Electronic Group at Quantum that pioneered new multi-media applications for HDDs with TiVo and ReplayTV.   Don also helped start two HDD companies and worked on removable storage at SyQuest in various engineering/management roles.   His technical interests are in signal detection and estimation.  Don holds a BSEE from SJSU and an MSEE from Santa Clara University.