Currie Munce

Currie Munce has over 40 years' experience in storage technology. He began at IBM's Research Lab in Almaden Valley, tackling mechanical challenges on 14-inch HDDs. For over a decade Dr. Munce led the research and advanced technology teams at IBM and then Hitachi GST, driving many innovations still used in enterprise HDDs today. At HGST, while heading the Enterprise business unit, he launched a partnership in 2008 with Intel to develop HGST’s first enterprise SSD SAS product. Currie began focusing more on SSD’s, initially at HGST/WD, and then fully when he joined Micron to lead the SSD engineering and then the future storage architecture teams. Dr Munce holds an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.