Mohamad El-Batal
Chief Systems Technologist
Seagate Technology
Mohamad El-Batal is chief technologist for Seagate’s Storage Systems group within the Office of the CTO. In this role, he helps shape the company’s strategy and innovation roadmap.
He has devoted more than 30 years to innovations in storage, memory, cloud and data center architectures. The results continue to help customers store and manage their most valuable asset — data — through improved quality, availability, integrity, reliability and performance.
Throughout his career, he has contributed to setting industry standards. Currently, he is an advisory board of director of Open Compute Project (OCP) and on the board of directors of the Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) Consortium. He chaired various OCP working groups including the OCP NVMe-HDD specification, the PCIe External Connectivity (PEC), the OCP Composable Memory Appliance (CMA) workstream and the OCP Composable Fabric Management (CFM) workstreams.
Mohamad earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also did graduate work in Digital Signal Processing. He holds more than 40 patents — with more than 20 others pending — in areas related to silicon, high-availability, firmware, emerging memory, solid-state drives and systems design.
