Tom Coughlin
IEEE Life Fellow, President of Coughlin Associates, IEEE, Coughlin Associates
Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports (including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report), and puts on digital storage-oriented events. He is a regular storage and memory contributor for Forbes.com and media and entertainment organization websites. He is an IEEE life fellow, IEEE president in 2024, past president of IEEE-USA, past director of IEEE Region 6, past chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, past chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley and is also active with the Storage Networking Industry Association and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities, go to www.tomcoughlin.com.