Werner Glinka currently serves as the Chairman of Ecma TC44. Ecma TC44 is an international standards committee, that is developing standards for Holographic Storage Systems. He also works with the iVDR Consortium in preparing the first iVDR standard for ISO submission. He served as chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) from 2004 to 2005 and served on the Board of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) from 2003 to 2005.

Glinka has more than 25 years of experience in product marketing, design, engineering and industry standards. Prior to forming the Glinka Company in 1999, he served as senior director of marketing of Optical Storage and Multimedia Products for Hitachi America, Ltd.

Before joining Hitachi, he was with the Integrated Storage Products Division of Sony Corporation, with responsibility for marketing and product planning for the company's optical storage and system products. Mr. Glinka has also held senior marketing and engineering positions at Maxoptix/Maxtor Corporation, Laserdrive Ltd., Memorex and Nixdorf Computers. Mr. Glinka received his degree in electrical engineering from Fachhochschule Bochum, Germany.

Glinka was the founding Executive Director of the DAFS Collaborative an ad-hoc industry group sponsored by Intel and Network Appliance. The DAFS Collaborative had more than 80 companies participating in developing a new file access protocol that takes advantage of new standard memory-to-memory interconnect technologies such as VI and InfiniBand in data center environments.

The Glinka Company managed the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) standardization for Network Appliance in ECMA.

Glinka represented Hitachi in international optical standards efforts and served as Hitachi’s primary evangelist for DVD products and technology.