D'Apice has a 25-year track record of leading world class engineering teams and delivering mission critical products to enterprise customers. Most recently, he was co-founder and vice president of Product Engineering at Pillar Data Systems, where he was responsible for the design and development of new products and global technical support.

Prior to Pillar Data, D'Apice was VP of Engineering for IBM's storage and subsystems group (Mylex). Prior to IBM, D'Apice was co-founder and VP of Engineering and Customer Support at CyberStorage Systems, a leading supplier of intelligent disk substorage systems, PC based networks and multi-user/multi-tasking operating systems. Earlier in his career, D'Apice held a variety of management positions at Kodak and AGFA-Compugraphic.

D'Apice holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northeastern University.