Petro Estakhri

Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Previously, Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer and chairman of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media was a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets. It grew from a private startup to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. Prior to that, Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc after cofounding the group and held leadership positions at IBM and National Semiconductor. Estakhri has served on several Boards, including SiliconStor, a company that Estakhri cofounded in 2002 which was sold to LSI, Apixio Inc. a Health Services provider which was sold to Centene corporation, primaryio Inc. Hybrid Cloud Management and others. Estakhri is a coauthor of more than 120 patents relating to magnetic media, flash storage controllers and systems architecture. Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.