Memtech: Management Team

Richard Mataya, VP of Engineering
Rich has been involved with solid-state storage his entire career, and has spent nearly 12 years developing products at Memtech. Starting as a product engineer working with bubble memories, he was an early adopter of flash technology, shipping his first solid-state flash drive in 1989. His main design strength is in embedded systems, having created a number of SSDs for IDE and SCSI and also designing and producing technology for industrial applications. With experience at BitMicro and LCSP Deeco Systems, his main Memtech responsibilities are to spearhead product development and execute board-level implementations of the newest products. Most product tests now being run at Memtech were of his creation, including the test software, pass/fail criteria and procedure creation/execution. Rich is an active sports enthusiast, enjoying water skiing, snow skiing, camping, hockey, and coaching youth soccer.

Larry Schuster, VP of Sales and Marketing
Larry brings over twenty years of experience in dramatically boosting sales and marketing activities for storage and hardware companies. He began his career at Tandem Computers, where he managed a large team of highly successful sales staff and achieved multiple awards and four consecutive years of top sales honors. Larry spent over thirteen years with WYSE to increase revenues tenfold in one year and bring corporate subsidiaries to profitability. He has also managed sales and marketing efforts leading to a high-valued sale of storage startup Ark Research to LSI Logic and established a strong pipeline and channel relationships as the president of operations with an emerging global supplier network in China. Larry heads up sales, marketing, and communications activities for Memtech, driving additional revenue opportunities, channel development programs, and launch activities for new products. Larry enjoys travel and golf in his leisure time.