
At Panzura, Randy Chou worked to make distant offices share files as if they were next door. At Nubeva, the former storage CEO is working on a different obstacle: getting usable data back from encryption.

A career that began close to the help desk now sits inside a stubborn question in computing: when systems fail, how much work disappears - and how quickly can people begin again?

After two decades spent deep in storage, product and transformation work, Panzura's CEO is betting that the least glamorous layer of enterprise technology may become AI's most important one.