Gender Male
Mr. Michael Malcolm founded Kaleidescape Inc. in 2001 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Mr. Malcolm served as the Chief Executive Officer of Kaleidescape Inc. until December 2013. He also founded two California-based public companies: Network Appliance, Inc. and CacheFlow Inc. Network Appliance pioneered the concept of network-attached
storage appliances, and is now recognized as the leading developer and manufacturer of these high-performance network filers. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Network Appliance until 1994. He also acted as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CacheFlow until 1999. Prior to founding Network Appliance, he spent five years as a technical and business advisor to senior executives at Auspex Systems, Sun Microsystems, Quantum Corporation, Tandem Computers, and various venture capital firms. Before that, he served five years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canada's Waterloo Microsystems, Inc. As a tenured associate professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, he directed one of the most prominent research projects in Canada. He holds numerous U.S. and foreign patents in computing and computer networking. Mr. Malcolm holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University and Bachelors and Masters degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Denver.
