He is our new Office expert in charge of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda, gradually taking over the role of Michael Malms. Sai is Senior Technologist and Project Manager (R&D) working with ParTec AG. Sai previously headed EU R&D for Seagate Systems where he has actively led and contributed to multiple European-led HPC and Cloud research initiatives over a decade, including coordinating and providing technical leadership for projects such as SAGE and Sage2. Going back, Sai was CTO and Co-founder at 4Blox, inc, a venture capital-backed storage infrastructure software company in California addressing IP SAN(Storage Area Network) performance issues. Sai obtained his PhD from Arizona State University in the area of high-performance data storage.