From 1981 to 2018 Mr. Leider was an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Winchester Systems, a manufacturer of data storage systems. The company’s products were utilized in several thousand mission critical applications in major business and government organizations. Notably, its “purpose built” military products for US surveillance aircraft deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Gulf Wars contributed to saving American lives.
Products from Winchester Systems included Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) configurations including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state disk drives (SSDs).
Customers included Partners Healthcare, GE, Dana Farber, Johns Hopkins and all branches of the US Armed Services plus NASA, JPL, WPAFB, USPS, Argonne and Fermi Labs as well as defense contractors Northrop, Rockwell, Lockheed, Boeing and Wyle.
From 1974 to 1981 Mr. Leider led a team of engineers at Teradyne that designed and built a new software system that tested IC electronics used in many generations of computers, cars and phones plus industrial and military equipment. This system shipped for over 15 years and was deployed for up to 25 years at most of the major semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
Mr. Leider holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New York University and an MBA from Boston University. He holds certificates in Software Engineering Management from Harvard University, and Management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
