General Investing >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 2003
GORDON KNIGHT is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
Nanochip, Inc., in Oakland, California. Dr. Knight has over 25
years of Senior Executive Management experience in the storage
industry. He was founder of three optical disk drive companies:
TeraStor Corporation, Maxoptix Corporation, and Optimem
Corporation. He is author and co-author of 10 patents related to
optical storage. He has also chaired several domestic and
international conferences on optical storage. He received his
Bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Stanford University. Profile
TWST: Would you start us off with a capsule summary of Nanochip?Dr. Knight: Let me give you a little background. Nanochip was
started and founded in 1996 by Tom Rust. Tom is our CTO