NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Mr. Sarma is a longtime shareholder of NWBio. In the joining the Board, he brings decades of experience as a business executive and as a venture capital investor. One of the companies he founded and built was American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), which became a major player in hardware, software and firmware components of PC-based systems. The company was known for developing the AMIBIOS firmware program for IBM-PC compatibility. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is the heart of PC-compatibility and all application programs access the BIOS in reading from or writing to peripheral units such as drives, keyboards, mouse, etc.

AMI was also known for developing the AMI RAID Controller and Management software that was the fastest performer in the industry during the 1990's and early 2000's. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology allows a program to write data in several hard drives in an identical fashion so that if one pathway fails the system can be brought back with minimal outage.