Gillware Incorporated is located in Madison Wisconsin, specializing in data recovery from troubled hard drives. Gillware was founded in May of 2004 to fill a niche in the data recovery services industry, that niche being an affordable data recovery solution for people who can't afford or aren't willing to spend thousands of dollars to get their data back.

The founders of Gillware Inc. are Brian and Tyler Gill.

Brian holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Over the years Brian has worked in software and hardware engineering for the Bank of America, Strong Mutual Funds, Tellabs, American Family Insurance and Kraft Foods, just to name a few. Brian has received training internationally from experts in data recovery. He is a drive firmware expert and is well-versed in the firmware architectures of all the major drive vendors. Brian's specialty is designing robust and scalable software and hardware solutions for large corporations. Brian was also a co-author of the first edition of the WebLogic Server Bible, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2002.

Tyler originally got the idea for the business when his own hard drive crashed and he couldn't find an affordable solution. Tyler holds a variety of computer-related certifications and also attended UW-Madison. His specialties are computer networking, custom computer assembly, and hardware repair. Before Gillware, Tyler had been building high-performance computer networks for small businesses and designed and built powerful custom workstations and storage solutions for clients. Tyler built and manages our custom recovery systems, robust intranet network, and multi-terabyte storage arrays.

Dr. Piefer holds a Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He also holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and a M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering. His research includes nuclear fusion, magnetic monopoles, the Hubble Space Telescope, and inertial-electrostatic confinement. Greg is in charge of Gillware's new technology efforts for hardware and software methods to repair troubled drives.

Wesley holds B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Wesley's experience includes a wide variety of engineering and development positions. He has conducted testing of high performance off-road racing technologies for General Motors, developed geometry and mesh generation tools for Sandia National Laboratory, engineered reliability improvements for Sub-Zero Freezer and Wolf Appliance Companies, and designed case management software for the State of Wisconsin Courts. Wesley is also an expert in RAID analysis and reconstruction. Wesley develops custom software for the most difficult RAID-0 data recovery cases and RAID-5 data recovery cases. Wesley leads Gillware's development of process control and information systems management.

Scott holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Scott's professional career includes working in the design and reliability engineering departments at Sub-Zero Freezer and Wolf Appliance Companies. While at Sub-Zero Scott was involved in numerous development, quality, and reliability projects, including assisting in the implementation of a SAS warranty analysis package. At Gillware, Scott leads the research and development of clean room procedures.