Thomas Goepel brings over 30 years of experience in Storage, Mission-Critical Computing, and High-Performance Computing, currently leading Product Management at HPE’s Storage Business while also co-founding and heading Roasting and Quality at Tico Coffee Roasters, where he oversees roasting, cupping, and green coffee sourcing, and judges for the Alliance for Coffee Excellence. Raised near the Bavarian Alps in Germany and holding an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, he now splits his time between San Jose, California, and Costa Rica.