George Saliba

George Saliba

Chairman, President and CEO

About Saliba Technologies

George Saliba is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Saliba Technologies, Inc. located in Boulder Colorado.

For the past eight years at Saliba Technologies, George invented and led the development of multiple advanced data storage products including the very successful Tape Drive Doctor for LTO and DLT tapes, “TDD”, and the Global Storage Solution technology, “GSS”. During his tenure at Saliba Technologies, Mr. Saliba continues to provide Technology & IP consulting to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the field of disk, tape and data storage systems.

Prior to Saliba Technologies, he was responsible for the development of the very successful DLT and SDLT families of tape and Automation data storage products at Quantum Corporation. George was the primary inventor of the DLT and Super DLT tape product line and was instrumental in the explosive growth of the DLTtape and SDLTtape.  He is credited for inventing multiple tape technology advances and completing, ahead of the competition, 8 consecutive leadership DLT and SDLT tape products (DLT260, DLT2000, DLT4000, DLT7000, DLT8000, SDLT1 and SDLT2). DLT became the industry standard for tape storage products worldwide, shipping over 100 million tape cartridges. Mr. Saliba also was responsible for the development of all the DLTtape media and DLTStor Tape Automation.  

The success of these products has resulted in the phenomenal growth of Quantum’s business from $200 Million to over $1 Billion. George Saliba is known in the industry as “Mr. DLT”.

George’s career spans over 35 years in the data storage industry.  Prior to Quantum, he was the Senior Group Engineering Manager for TK70, TF70, and for the tapes of all DLT Tape storage products developed at Digital Equipment Corporation.  He also held a variety of senior engineering management and technical staff positions in developing state-of-the-art disk drives at Storage Technology Corporation from 1977 – 1986.

George has received numerous awards for his work.  In 1996, he was voted Quantum’s Inventor of the Year.  For his many DLT inventions and innovations, in 1997 he was awarded Quantum’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  He has also received, for the second time, the Inventor of the Year Award in 1998. Mr. Saliba recently received the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Colorado, Denver.

George has over 90 issued patents covering various data storage technologies.  He has published extensively in the magnetic recording field.  George earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Colorado, and holds BT1 and BT2 degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Des arts et Sciences.

Our Team

  • Demitri Lignos

    Demitri Lignos

    Board Member

    Following a 40 year career in the hi-tech industry, Mr. Lignos has been utilizing his years of experience with magnetic and optical storage products, to consult with various startup and established companies.

    Prior to being a consultant, Mr. Lignos held the position of Vice President of Engineering at InPhase Technologies Inc, a startup company in Longmont Colorado. InPhase Technologies was incorporated in December 2000 to develop the word’s first holographic storage product. Mr. Lignos joined the company in April of 2001 and remained with the company until June of 2006. His duties at InPhase were to hire an engineering team and bring this holographic optical technology product to market. At the time of his departure, the engineering team had grown to over 40 people and had developed several working prototype holographic drives which were used for demonstrations around the world. As a member of the corporate executive staff, Mr. Lignos participated in all business decisions affecting the company.

    Mr. Lignos spent almost his entire 40 year career in the data storage industry. Prior to InPhase Technologies and following a brief stay with Quantum Corp (following Quantum acquisition of the storage group from Digital Equipment Corporation-DEC), Mr. Lignos spent five years at Maxtor Corporation in Colorado as Vice President of such diversified positions as Engineering Quality, Continuation Engineering and New Products Introduction (NPI) groups. Over the last 18 months with Maxtor, Mr. Lignos was asked to head Operations for the company’s new Network Attached Storage systems group in California.

    Mr. Lignos earned a BS degree from Muskingum College majoring in Physics and Math, and an MSEE degree from the University of Toledo (Ohio). Mr. Lignos is also a graduate of Athens College of Athens, Greece.

  • Bassam Saliba

    Bassam Saliba

    Board Member

    Bassam Saliba spent the last 20 years leading the design and development of large-scale, complex, mission-critical systems. Bassam Saliba is currently the EVP of Development at WebMD. Prior to WebMD, Bassam was the CEO of Avado, a health-tech company in the medical data management industry. Prior to Avado, he held the position of CEO of Equiom, Inc., a consulting and technology incubation firm based in Bellevue, Washington. Prior, Bassam was the VP of Engineering for Scalix Corporation. Before that, he was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fidesic, where he pioneered an electronic invoice presentment and payments (EIPP) platform. Before Fidesic, he spent 10 years at Microsoft in various roles including the Group Manager for TransPoint, a technology venture between Microsoft, Citibank, and First Data Corporation. Bassam has 16 patents filed - 6 issued, and brings extensive experience in business and technology, including strategy, architecture, design, development, and project management.

    Bassam is an active investor and advisor to several startups, and serves on the board of several firms including Balance Financial and Moprise.

    Bassam holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a M.S. in Software Engineering from Seattle University, and has completed the EPGC program at Stanford University.

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I like to think of my relationship with Saliba Technologies as a win-win. They not only provide solutions to the problem, but in every case, the results have exceeded targets

James R. Mudd, Jr., Quantum Corp.SVP WW Operations