Michael Cornwell serves as the Field CTO of the Americas at Pure Storage. He is a Founding Engineer of the company and has served in key management roles in the company\’s growth. Previously at Microsoft as the general manager of storage technologies for Azure Infrastructure and led the innovation and adoption of new memory and storage technologies across the Azure platform and services. He also led pioneering storage product development at Sun Microsystems and Apple, where he was instrumental in adopting new technologies in Apple products. Michael holds a bachelor\’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has been awarded 68 U.S. patents.