Shankar Arumugavelu

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

TM Forum is an alliance of over 850 companies that work together to break down technology and cultural barriers between digital service providers, technology suppliers, consultancies, and systems integrators. The non-profit company is based in Morristown, NJ. The company drives collaboration and collective problem-solving to maximize the business success of communication and digital service providers and their ecosystem of suppliers around the world. TM Forum provides a platform for industry change-makers to share groundbreaking innovation, market developments, product launches, and business transformation journeys at their events. The company is the only industry body to count the world's top 10 CSPs and all the key hyperscalers as active, strategic members. The company was founded by Gadi Solotorevsky and Eric Pulier, and the CEO is Nik Willetts.