Lance L. Smith

Lance L. Smith has served as Fusion-io, Inc.’s President and Chief Operating Officer since August 2013, as its Chief Operating Officer since April 2010, as its Executive Vice President since October 2010, as its Senior Vice President of Engineering from September 2009 to October 2010, and as its Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing from May 2008 to September 2009. From January 2003 to May 2008, Mr. Smith served as Vice President and General Manager of RMI Corporation, a semiconductor company. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Senior Vice President, Business Development of Raza Foundries, Inc., a broadband networking and communications investment company, and served in various interim executive roles at Pacific Broadband Communications, Inc.; Acirro, Inc.; and Omnishift Technologies Inc. He also served as the Director of Commercial Segment Marketing and Director of Technical Marketing for the computational products group of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the x86 microprocessor and video card maker, and had management roles at technology companies NexGen, Inc., and Chips and Technologies, Inc. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University.