John Colgrove

John Colgrove, or Coz, is Founder and Chief

Visionary Officer at Pure Storage, responsible for

developing and executing Pure Storage’s global

technical strategy. Coz co-founded Pure Storage in 2009. Prior to this, he was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. It was there he observed the growing

acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises.

Coz was one of the founding engineers at Veritas

Software, which merged with Symantec in 2005,

where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the Data Center Management Group. He was the primary architect for the hugely successful Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles.

Prior to Veritas, Coz worked for Amdahl Corporation where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel. He holds over 170 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design. Coz has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University.