Thursday, February 5, 2009

Fusion-io Snags Apple Co-Founder Woz

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io has made a high profile move, and has added Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist of the company. According to Fusion-io, Wozniak will be a key advisor to the firm's research and develompent group. Fusion-io is a developer of direct attach, solid state storage products, and is backed by New Enterprise Associates. The firm had added Wozniak to its advisory board back in October of last year, and raised $19M in March of 2008.