Ken Claffey

Ken Claffey is CEO of VDURA, a modern data storage infrastructure software company purpose-built for AI and HPC workloads. With a track record of building and scaling businesses across the HPC and storage ecosystem, he has held senior executive roles at Seagate, Xyratex, Adaptec, and Eurologic.

At Seagate, Ken led the Enterprise Storage division through a period of transformative growth, driving full-stack product innovation to address emerging customer needs across Cloud and Enterprise markets. At Xyratex, he built the ClusterStor HPC storage business from the ground up — a platform that went on to power 40% of the world's top supercomputers before being acquired by Cray/HPE. He was also instrumental in the subsequent sale of Xyratex to Seagate, and held leadership roles spanning product, operations, sales, and engineering at Adaptec and Eurologic.

As CEO of VDURA, Ken brings the strategic insight and hands-on expertise to translate vision into results.