Biography:

Dr. Coughlin is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 30 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical manager. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects he is the publisher of reports on digital storage in consumer electronics as well as content creation and distribution. He is the author of the recently published Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide from Newnes (a division of Elsevier). Tom has many published articles on digital storage and its applications. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies.

Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference, a partner to the International CES as well as the Creative Storage Conference which was a partner of the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters show. Tom is a senior member of the IEEE and in 2007 chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and San Francisco Bay Area Council and was chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society in 2006 and past chairman of the SCV IEEE Magnetics Society more than once. He is currently chairman of the Region 6 Central Area of the IEEE. Tom is a member of the IEEE CE Society Administrative Committee. He is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, TCG and SMPTE.