Gary Drossel is director of product planning for the Solid-State Storage Business Unit of Western Digital Technologies, based in Lake Forest, California. He is a storage and embedded systems industry expert with nearly 20 years of experience, having served in management roles such as VP of product planning for SiliconSystems, Inc. and director of solid-state drives and product marketing manager for SimpleTech, Inc. Before that, he held various marketing, sales, and field engineering management positions with Pro-Log and the industrial automation group of Parker Hannifin. Gary has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
