Kevin Magenis President & CEO Kevin is the CEO of Syght, where he leads the company’s Vision, strategy and financing activities. Kevin is an award-winning business leader and successful entrepreneur with more than 25 years of building new and existing companies into global, cutting-edge multimillion-dollar enterprises. He founded Storage Genetics, which developed signal processing technology…
David Dirks Principal Engineer David is a Principal Engineer at Syght, where he is responsible for developing Electronics and Electromechanical systems. David has over 27 years of experience developing electronics and related systems in the magnetic storage, data acquisition, semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. Prior to joining Syght, David was a Senior Research and Development…
Micah Kurtz Senior Firmware Engineer Micah Kurtz is a Senior Firmware Engineer at Syght. He has over ten years of experience with a diverse background spanning embedded hardware and firmware, software and safety critical systems design. Prior to joining Syght, Micah worked in the autonomous and tele-operable robotics industry. Most notably, he worked for Amazon…
Brian Magenis Mechanical Design Engineer Brian is a Mechanical Design Engineer at Syght, where he is responsible for enclosure, mechanical and industrial design and support of the products. He has 10+ years of engineering and design experience with work ranging from government to start up positions. Prior to joining Syght, Brian worked for a manufacturing…
Stephen Powell Principal Engineer Stephen is a principal engineer with Syght, working on camera and detector development. He has a background in magnetic recording, electromagnetic fields, optics, and nanofabrication. Prior to joining Syght, Stephen worked as a Head/Media engineer in product development for Seagate Technology. There he was responsible for integrating heads and media and…
Kurt Wiesen Principal Engineer Kurt is a principal engineer at Syght, where he leads the optical design and analysis effort. Prior to joining Syght, Kurt has over 30 years experience in the data storage industry working in the design of heads and the integration of heads and media into hard disk drives. His focus for…
Kevin McKinstry Principal Engineer Kevin is the lead RF engineer at Syght, overseeing the development of the millimeter-wave components for the company. He has a background in microwave magnetics and magnetic recording. Prior to joining Syght, Kevin spent the majority of his career in the magnetic recording industry, ultimately becoming lead design engineer for magnetic…
Bob Warren Principal Engineer Bob is the architect and engineer for the electronics and software of our product. He has over 25 years of experience leading system architecture and design for several different product types, including Disk Drives, SSDs, Fingerprint ID Systems and Storage Controllers. Prior to joining Syght, Bob was a consultant to an…
Mike Montemorra Vice President Engineering Prior to joining Syght, Mike worked in various engineering and management positions at Applied Magnetics, Maxtor, Seagate and as a consultant to Western Digital. He remains a technology advisor to the data storage sector and publishes a weekly technology blog highlighting interesting developments in the storage and semiconductor businesses. Mike’s…
Kathy Adams Director of Corporate Communication Kathy is the Operations Manager at Syght, where she is responsible for bookkeeping, accounts payable, record keeping, software assessment and implementation, and administration. She has over 20 years of technical experience from her work with Digital Equipment Corp, Motorola, Intel, and three startups.. Kathy has extensive experience in Latin…