Jin-Hyeok Choi
Jin-Hyeok Choi leads Device Solution’s R&D – Memory division, which develops new memory technologies and enables memory products.
Jin-Hyeok joined Samsung Electronics in 2003 as a SoC design engineer, working on the development of mobile storage. From 2012 to 2019, he was in charge of the development team for controllers, a core component of SoCs based on NAND Flash. He developed and commercialized the world's first eMMC and UFS products, as well as various controllers for SATA/SAS/NVMe SSDs. He also developed the first-ever enterprise premium SSD with high endurance VNAND and has contributed significantly to the expansion of the storage market.
Jin-Hyeok received his B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in 1989, 1991, and 1996, respectively. He also studied low-power circuits at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science.
SangJoon Hwang
SangJoon Hwang received B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering from the Korea University in 1994, 1996, and 2008, respectively.
He joined the Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, South Korea in 1996, where he had successfully led a DRAM design group in 2014 and the Flash design team in 2017 as a Vice President and the Memory Product Planning team in 2019 as as a Senior Vice President. Through leading various backgounds from product planning to design, his experience enhances the overall quality of Samsung DRAM products.
Since 2023, he has been leading the DRAM Product & Technology of the Samsung memory division. His current research interests include architecture for next-generation DRAM and product development utilizing new process technology for new product line-up.
Paul Turner
Paul Turner, is the Vice President of the vSphere Product Management team, covering vCenter, ESXi, vMotion and Project Pacific. He is leading our next generation of vSphere and moving the platform to become the leading infrastructure platform for all apps – VMs, Containers and Machine Learning applications. Paul brings more than 20 years expertise in enterprise software product management and marketing - having held leadership roles at VMware, NetApp, Oracle, Cloudian and Scality. Under his leadership, Scality was recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and also by IDC in their Marketscape report for Object Storage. Prior to this at NetApp, he led the product management and technical marketing for their management software and also ran the Product Strategy Office, where he guided their investments into all-flash, Iongrid, CacheIQ, Onaro and Akorri.
Paul holds an computer science degree from Trinity College in Ireland. He lives in Los Altos, Silicon Valley with his wife Kristy and their children Conor and Aoife..
Gunnar Hellekson
Gunnar Hellekson is Vice President and General Manager for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux business. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. He is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010, and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America’s California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the CivicCommons Board of Advisors. He perks up when people talk about commoditization and the industrial mobilization of World War II. He is also co-host of the Dave and Gunnar Show.
Prior to joining Red Hat, he worked as a developer, systems administrator, and IT director for a number of Internet businesses. He has also been a business and IT consultant to not-for-profit organizations in New York City. During that time, he spearheaded the reform of safety regulations for New York State’s electrical utilities through the Jodie Lane Project.
Gunnar’s CV is available in HTML, PDF, and on GitHub.