Gary Drossel, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy

Gary Drossel leads Virtium’s product strategy and marketing team. He ensures the company’s product roadmap is strategically maintained to meet the dynamic storage and memory requirements of Virtium’s customers while supporting the longest possible product lifecycles. Drossel has more than 22 years experience in embedded computing and solid-state drive technology and holds five SSD-related patents. Prior to joining Virtium, Drossel was vice president of product planning at SiliconSystems, now the Solid State Storage Business Unit of Western Digital. He has also held various product management, engineering and technical marketing positions with STEC, Pro-Log, and Parker Hannifin. Drossel earned his degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin.