Eideticom announces the appointment of Stephen Bates to the position of Chief Technology Officer
Calgary, Canada – September 5th, 2017 – Eidetic Communications Inc. (Eideticom), a developer of leading edge storage, compute and application software targeting programmable platforms on the cloud or at the network edge, is pleased to announce that Stephen Bates has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. Stephen will be responsible for advanced research and architecture development for Eideticom’s storage and compute acceleration products.
Stephen is a world class expert in performance storage, non-volatile memory, computer networking, signal processing and error correction coding and has worked on some of the most complicated communication and storage solutions in the industry. In his previous position, he was Senior Technical Director at Microsemi (formerly PMC) where he worked with customers, partners, internal teams and executive to shape Microsemi’s roadmap for high-performance storage. Previous to Microsemi he was a cofounder and Chief Architect of Rad3 Communications, a communications IP provider which was acquired by PMC Sierra in 2011 and a founder of Raithlin Semiconductor (www.raithlin.com). Prior to Raithlin, Dr. Bates was a professor at the University of Alberta’s (UofA’s) department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he was affiliated with the ICORE High Capacity Digital Communications Lab. In addition, Dr. Bates previously worked for Massana Ltd, a company specializing in the design of Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, which was subsequently acquired by Agere Inc. Stephen holds a 1st class BEng and PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
“The addition of Stephen to Eideticom’s management and technical team further strengthens our ability to deliver advanced solutions for storage and compute acceleration.” said Roger Bertschmann, President Eideticom. “Stephen is a highly regarded expert in the complex interaction of compute, networking and storage and he will play a key role as Eideticom launches a number of new products targeted towards accelerating storage and compute workloads. We are very excited to have him join us.”
About Eideticom.
Eideticom develops leading edge storage, compute and application acceleration products targeting programmable platforms on the cloud or at the network edge. Eideticom’s extensive experience developing and deploying enterprise grade products enables our customers and partners to confidently and successfully deliver their products to market. For more information, please visit Eideticom’s web site: www.eideticom.com.