Aaron Olbrich is a co-founder of Pliant Technology, Inc. and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Olbrich served as a Director of Hardware Architecture at Fujitsu Computer Products of America. During his six years at Fujitsu, he co-designed, and model software algorithms and hardware architectures. Prior to Fujitsu, he worked at. IBM's disk drive division where he served as a Lead Engineer and was responsible for the development of a ground breaking two-actuator disk drive. He awarded two patents for technologies that resulted in best-in-class performance for Fujitsu's mobile and enterprise-class drives. He awarded two patents for his queuing algorithm design. Mr. Olbrich holds a B.S. Degree (Suma Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.