ALAN F. SHUGART
MILESTONES
 
Chronology
2001 Silicon Valley Business Ink, Valley’s Hottest Names
2000 Electronic Business Magazine, Top 25 Executives of the Past 25 Years
1999 Santa Cruz County Sentinel, Santa Cruz County’s Top Influential People of the Century
1999 San Jose Business Journal "Who’s Who in Silicon Valley Business"
1998 Electronic Engineering Times "Times People 98" (Mass Storage category)
1998 Inductee, Upside Hall of Fame
1998 Named to appear in the Bay Area’s acclaimed honorary museum, "Showcase of Success"
1998 Founded Friends of Ernest Political Action Committee (FOEPAC)
1998 Founded Al Shugart International
1998 DataStorage98 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1998 Forbes Corporate America’s Most Powerful People
1997 Forbes Corporate America’s Most Powerful People
1997 Inductee, Computer Museum and Computer Reseller News Industry Hall of Fame Inauguration
1997 Founded Friends of Ernest (FOE)
1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award
1997 DataStorage97 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1996 DataStorage96 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1995 DataStorage95 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1994 DataStorage94 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1993 DataStorage93 - Most Admired Industry Executive
1979 Founded Seagate Technology
1973 Founded Shugart Associates
1969 Joined Memorex as VP Product Development
1955 Helped pioneer the development of the world’s first disk drive
1951 Joined IBM as Field Engineer
 
Board of Directors
Blue Sky Research
Cypress Semiconductor
Fidelica Microsystems
Inktomi Corporation
NxtWave Communications
SanDisk Corporation
Valence Technology

Titles/Memberships
Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (D.S.P.N.) Dato', State of Penang, Malaysia
Ex Officio Board Member of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County (CASA)
Chairman, Friends of Ernest Political Action Committee (FOEPAC)
Member, American Electronics Association (AEA)
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, Singapore-U.S. Trade Council (1995 - 1998)
Member, Board of Governors of The National Association of Securities Dealers (1989 - 1992)
Program Manager, IBM 232 1 Data Cell Drive
Program Manager, IBM 130 1 Disk Storage
Product Manager, IBM Random Access Memory Products
Director of Engineering, IBM Systems Development Division
Initial Sponsor, Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California at San Diego
Initial Sponsor, Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Numerous patents assigned to IBM, Shugart Associates, and Seagate Technology
Member, Santa Cruz County Sentinel Board of Contributors
Chairman, Friends of Ernest (FOE)

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