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Finis Conner

Finis Conner is pivotal in bringing almost 30 years of experience in design, manufacturing and sales experience of hard disk drives to StorCard. Finis Conner co-founded Shugart Associates in 1973, where they produced and sold 8" floppy and hard (HDD) disc drives. The company was sold to Xerox Corporation in 1977. In 1979, Conner co-founded Seagate Technology where he conceived the original 5 1/4" Winchester disc drive. Seagate was the first company to receive the Entrepreneur Company Award by both Harvard and the Stanford Business Schools in 1984. In 1986, he founded Conner Peripherals, Inc., Fortune magazine's pick for "America's fastest-growing company." Conner Peripherals was the first to develop and manufacture 3 1/2" and 2 ½” Winchester disk drives used in personal computers. He led the growth of the company to $1.4 billion in its 4th year of sales and $2.7 billion in its 10th year when Seagate acquired the company.