F. Grant Saviers

F. Grant Saviers
InPronto, Inc.

Grant Saviers is a Founder and Directo of InPronto, a provider of advanced dental implant services. He is the retired chairman & CEO of Adaptec, Inc. He joined Adaptec as chief operating officer, and president in 1992, becoming CEO in 1995 and chairman in 1997.

He was with Digital Equipment Corporation from 1968 to 1992, where he built the Storage Systems organization to $3B in revenue and finally as vice president of PC Systems and Peripherals, he lead DEC’s third try at the PC and PC Networking business. Grant is a volunteer member of the IBM 1401 restoration team at the Museum and provides his metal machining and ancient engineering skills for Museum restorations.

Saviers serves on the corporate board for Analog Devices and has served on the boards of several private companies. In the non-profit sector, Saviers was a trustee of Hawthorne College, and has served on the advisory boards of the College of Engineering at the UC Berkeley, the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, and the Case School of Engineering Visiting Committee.

He earned his B.S. and M.S. in engineering (computing) from Case Tech/CaseWestern Reserve University, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.