Tom Coughlin
IEEE Life Fellow, President of Coughlin Associates, IEEE, Coughlin Associates
Tom Coughlin is 2024 president and CEO of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, past president of IEEE-USA, past director of IEEE Region 6, past chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and past chair of the Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley. He's also active with the Storage Networking Industry Association and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He has spent more than 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies.
Coughlin is president of Coughlin Associates, a digital storage analyst and business and technology firm, which consults and publishes books as well as market and technology reports, including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and Emerging Memory Report. He also organizes digital storage-oriented events and is a regular storage and memory contributor for Forbes.com and media and entertainment organization websites.