Sai Narasimhamurthy PhD (male) is currently Sr. Staff Engineer, Seagate Research (formerly Lead Researcher, Emerging Tech, Xyratex) working on Research and Development for next-generation storage systems (since 2010). He has actively led and contributed to many European led HPC and Cloud research initiatives currently providing leadership for the SAGE EU project. Sai also currently holds the position of vice-chair of industry for the ETP4HPC organization and is actively involved in developing ETP4HPC’s Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).Previously(2005 – 2009), Sai was CTO and Co-founder at 4Blox, inc, a storage infrastructure software startup in California. Sai obtained his Ph.D. from Arizona State University (2001-2005) in the area of networked storage systems.