Petro Estakhri
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
Lexar Media, Inc.

As senior director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Petro Estakhri was responsible for the ATA/PCMCIA, Servo Controller ASICs and Flash Storage Systems groups. He also has served as a key design member of Custom Microcomputer Chips at National Semiconductor. A founding member of Lexar Media, he is co-author of several patents related to flash controller and systems architecture. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.