John Bordynuik
President and CEO
As the founding CEO and President of John Bordynuik Inc (JBI),
John Bordynuik is responsible for driving corporate strategy,
business development, hardware and software design and sales.
Bordynuik's passion for data recovery began 18 years ago, when
he first designed custom hardware to recover data from old DECTapes
and hard disk platters. He went on to be the Director of Research
& Development for the Ontario Provincial Legislature for ten
years. Bordynuik next embarked on the pursuit of the "Holy Grail"
of all software, seeking a vital piece of software that had been
lost by the founders of the world's largest software company. He
was able to successfully recover this software for its creators.
Bordynuik also fully restored their 1975 PDP10 - a computer that
consisted of more than 10,000 severely damaged components, and
required all newly designed memory systems -- in less than a month.
In the process of this restoration project, he designed a complete
replacement memory subsystem for the PDP10.
Ready to embark on his own venture, Bordynuik returned home to
Niagara Falls, Ontario and incorporated JBI in 2006. He built the
company organically, through strong client relationships and an
impeccable reputation, while developing sophisticated magnetic
storage devices to recover legacy data. His clients include MIT,
the U.S. Army, NASA, Fortune 500 company founders, professors from
academic institutions worldwide, and countless public and private
companies.
When Bordynuik was asked to present his theories and processes
to the key faculty at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), they were so impressed by his
innovation and knowledge that they invited him to join their Math
and Computation Group as a Collaborative Researcher.
Bordynuik was able to solve a major problem for the university,
which had thousands of unreadable 30-40 year old legacy computer
tapes. He addressed MIT's legacy computer data issues by developing
highly sophisticated technology to read these tapes and has since
recovered all of the research stored on more than 10,000 tapes.
Bordynuik's expertise lies in being able to create products that
optimize and incorporate as much intelligence as possible in
applications that are as inexpensive as possible. His designs are
elegant, robust and efficient, and are not limited to data
recovery. Over many years, Bordynuik designed a custom CPU core
that is used in many mission critical applications. In 2005,
Bordynuik was granted a broad US patent (7,115,872) for a dirty
bomb detector. He continues to innovate and develop niche market
products for JBI. Mr. Bordynuik has
patents pending to protect technologies JBI has developed
to recover data from old media.