James Zhao is a principal analyst at IHS Markit in the Shanghai office.

Mr. Zhao is responsible for forecasting and analysis of the storage markets including solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD).

Before joining IHS Markit, he spent eight years with INTEL and Micron as the wafer lever testing lead on NOR Flash Memory, then six years with Sandisk/WDC as a Principal System Engineer for Enterprise SSDs. His duties scoped from design validation, NPI to product manufacturing bring ups.

Mr. Zhao holds a bachelor's degree of electronic science and technology in HangZhou Electronic Science & Technology University, China.