Hans O'Sullivan - Profile

 

Hans O'Sullivan - Founder and CEO

Hans is co-founder and CEO of StorMagic. Hans has been working in the technology industry for 25 years and today has seven patents in his name. Prior to founding StorMagic in 2006, Hans was CEO of Elipsan, a software development organization spun off by data storage array vendor Eurologic, another company founded by Hans (in 1989). Elipsan’s expertise was in the area of IP-based storage and protocols and it was one of the primary developers of what became known as iSCSI. Elipsan was sold in 2004.

Eurologic, where Hans held the position of CTO, grew to $350 million in revenue and more than 400 people. It became the number one supplier of storage platforms in the world to companies such as Network Appliance, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Avid, and many others. Eurologic was sold to Adaptec in 2003.

Hans started his career as a design engineer at the Mentec Group, where he was responsible for designing a PDP-compatible computer. Hans holds a bachelor of engineering in Electronics from the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he graduated with honors.