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John Bates is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Attestiv, Inc.

Prior to Attestiv, John Bates was the Chief Technology Officer & co-founder of TwinStrata Inc.

John runs Technology Development and Strategic direction at TwinStrata. John has been a technologist in the storage industry for 20 years.Most recently, John worked at Incipient, Inc. in the advanced development group to broaden Incipient's technology portfolio and as a technology manager for OEM Partners.

Prior to Incipient, John held the role of Distinguished Technologist in the data storage division of Hewlett-Packard, working directly with both HP Labs and the storage business, and was responsible for defining next generation storage technologies. John came to HP from the acquisition of StorageApps in 2001, where he was the founding Chief Architect and built and patented the flexible architecture used in the industry's first storage virtualization appliance.

Prior to StorageApps, John spent a number of years in the data storage industry working at Sun Microsystems and Encore Computer. At Encore, John delivered unique snapshot technologies as well as a data sharing framework between open systems and mainframes, both of which were key factors in the sale of Encore's storage division to Sun Microsystems.

John holds a B.S. in Math and Computer Science from Brown University.