Manuel Offenberg

Manuel Offenberg is the CTO and Chief Architect at RedData, a division of RPI-CS, Inc., which provides secure storage devices, systems, and solutions. With 25 years of experience in technology, Manuel specializes in developing security-focused strategies, architectures, and products. His previous roles include Chief Architect & CTO for Seagate Federal, Inc., Senior Director at Seagate Research, and Engineering Director for Seagate ClusterStor.

 

Joining Seagate in 2001, Manuel was a key contributor to the Security Engineering team that launched the world’s first Self-Encrypting Drive (SED). As a security architect, he participated in several international standards organizations and co-authored multiple storage security specifications. In 2017, he became Engineering Director in the Seagate ClusterStor organization, where he was responsible for launching Seagate’s first multi-level security (MLS) scale-out storage appliance for High Performance Computing.

 

After moving to Seagate Research in 2019, Manuel founded and led a new Data Security group focused on advanced security concepts, storage security, and transparency. In 2022, he assumed the CTO role at Seagate Federal and became Chief Architect & CTO at RedData in October 2024. Manuel is a named inventor on over 10 patents and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.