Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai is an electrical engineer, inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is considered to be the single most influential thought leader in the data storage industry. Moshe’s architectures have fundamentally changed how the world stores and uses data. His career started at Elbit Systems, an Israel-based international defense Electronics Company, and then developed high-end storage systems for Nixdorf before joining EMC Corporation (EMC), where he became an EMC Fellow in 2001. Moshe then funded and led an Israeli storage startup company, XIV Ltd., which developed the first truly scalable grid storage system and co-founded Diligent Technologies, both of which were acquired by IBM in 2008. During that time, he continued leading XIV and became an IBM Fellow. Moshe received the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award the honor of Distinguished Fellow of the Technion. He has been a Board of Directors member of several companies.Moshe earned a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.