Thomas M. Coughlin - President Coughlin Associates
Speaker & Moderator - Reverse Logistics Conference & Expo
Panel - "Reverse Logistics Issues in the Storage Industry" - Las Vegas 2007
T. M. Coughlin has degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science from the University of Minnesota. His 20+ years of magnetic recording experience included flexible tape and floppy as well as rigid disk recording at such companies as Polaroid, Seagate Technology, Maxtor, Micropolis, Nashua Computer Products, Ampex and SyQuest. He has been active with IDEMA where he is chairman or a member of several committees. He is a senior member of the IEEE, was publicity chairman of the 1992, 1996, and 2002 TMRC conferences and is a past chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Magnetics Society and the current program chairman. He has organized magnetic recording Symposia from 1997-2002 for IIST at Santa Clara University where he is also an adjunct professor. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Association of Computer Machinery, American Physical Society and the American Vacuum Society.Since 1997 Tom has worked with Dennis Waid at Peripheral Research Corporation co-writing several of the annual PRC reports including the Computer Peripheral Test and Process Equipment Report and the New Applications for Data Storage Market and Technology Report. He has given technology and market assessment presentations at the annual Heads and Media Conference in Las Vegas, IDEMA and IIST Symposia and for the IEEE Magnetics Society. He has published over 40 articles, reports, technical papers and presentations. He has provided marketing, intellectual property and technology assessments and projections for several data storage technology companies, company analysts, and venture capitalists including Network Appliance, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, and The Woodside Fund. In addition he has served as project and general manager for technical projects involving budgets of several million dollars.
Past RLTS Participation