F. Grant Saviers

Grant Saviers is the retired chairman & CEO of Adaptec, Inc. He joined the company as chief operating officer, president and board member in 1992, becoming CEO in 1995 and chairman in 1997.

He was with Digital Equipment Corporation from 1968 to 1992, first as vice president of storage systems and then as vice president of PC systems and peripherals.

Saviers serves on the corporate boards for Analog Devices, Chaparral Network Storage, NetSilicon, Crag Technologies and Digital Products.

In the non-profit sector, Saviers is a trustee of Hawthorne College, and is on the advisory boards of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

He earned his B.S. and M.S. in engineering (computing) from Case Western Reserve University, and attended a business leadership program at the University of New Hampshire and an advanced management program at Harvard University.