Mike was a Diector at the Programmable solutions Group at Intel. He has more than twenty five years of computer, networking and storage experience with companies such as Hewlett Packard, Silverback Systems, and Altera. He led the FPGA High Performance Computing vision across Altera, which became a part of Intel in 2015. Previously Strickland led the development and launch of numerous products including networking, storage management, TCP/IP Offload and iSCSI. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brown University and a M.S. degree in management from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.