Nitin Deo, Group Marketing Director - DFM, Cadence Design Systems, Inc., has a unique background, having worked in design, product marketing, sales and business development. Before joining Cadence, Mr. Deo was VP of Marketing & Business Development at Clear Shape Technologies. Prior to Clear Shape, he held a similar role at Ponte Solutions, where he established key foundry partnerships and drove initial customer adoption.
Mr. Deo was a marketing executive at Moscape. After the pre-IPO acquisition of Moscape by Magma, he became VP and GM for Japan operations for 3 years, leading Magma's highly successful initial foray into Japan. He was also VP-Marketing and Business Development at Magma. He worked at Fujitsu and Philips and was at Synopsys for 5 years as Group Director-Marketing and Business Development. He started his career doing ASIC design at Mitsubishi Semiconductor, where he worked in Japan. He has a BSEE (Mysore), an MSEE (Virginia Tech) and an MBA (San Jose).

Dr. Franz Fink is President and Chief Executive Officer of Gennum Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductor solutions for the global video and data communications markets. With more than 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry, Dr. Fink has been instrumental in implementing Gennum’s global strategic initiatives, as well as extending the company’s mixed-signal, analog and optical product offerings to high-growth markets and emerging applications.
Prior to joining Gennum in 2006, Dr. Fink held executive management positions within Motorola’s Semiconductor Product Sector (SPS), which ultimately spun off to form Freescale Semiconductor, both in the United States and Europe. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Freescale Semiconductor’s Wireless and Mobile Systems Group, responsible for directing the company’s leading cellular, RF, short-wave wireless and multimedia applications processor business. From 2001 to 2003 he served as Vice President and General Manager of the 32-bit Embedded Microprocessor Division in Motorola’s SPS. Prior to that, he served as Operations Director of Powertrain Systems Operation with Motorola’s Advanced Vehicle Systems Division, as well as management positions in the areas of design and operations at Motorola.
Dr. Fink earned a master’s degree in Computer Science and Electronics from the Technical University of Munich, and later graduated summa cum laude with a doctorate degree from the Department of Computer-Aided Design.

Jack Harding Chairman, President, and CEO, eSilicon Corporation Jack Harding brings more than 20 years of executive management experience in the electronics industry to eSilicon. Prior to co-founding eSilicon, he served as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems; during his tenure, Cadence was the world's largest supplier of electronics design software. Previously, Harding was president and CEO of Cooper & Chyan Technology, which was acquired by Cadence in 1997. Harding also served as Executive Vice President of Zycad Corporation. He began his career with distinction at IBM.
Harding earned his bachelor's degree in Economics and Chemistry from Drew University and has served as Vice Chairman of its Board of Trustees. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Harding is a member and former Steering Committee member of the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C. based organization dedicated to the global competitiveness of the U.S.; and a former National Academies' Committee member for Software, Growth and the Future of the U.S. Economy. He is a frequent lecturer on innovation and entrepreneurship, and has served on many boards of public and private companies. He is a member of Board of Directors for RF Micro Devices (RFMD). His most recent appointment was to the 2007 board of directors for the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA).

Mario Cavalli is responsible for directing the industry strategy, technology promotion activites, membership development and overall business and finances of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Mario is an experienced industry executive with 30 years of involvement in advanced semiconductor and computer system technology and over 20 years of executive management expertise in the U.S. and Europe.
As President of Business Development International, a company he founded in 1990, Mario developed considerable executive level involvement with the worldwide electronics industry and played a key role in the launch of innovative semiconductor and computer technologies into global markets for U.S. and European companies, resulting in two successful IPOs.
Mario's former responsibilities include Executive Vice President of International Sales for Selectica, a leading supplier of enterprise software platforms for e-commerce applications and the direction of Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S.p.A.'s advanced PC technology acquisition program. Mario holds a BSEE degree and his technical background ranges from microprocessor system design to software development.

Bob Quinn has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience. Before 3Leaf, Mr. Quinn was founder and CEO of Network Virtual Systems (NVS), which developed scalable architectures and chips for x86 and Itanium SMP servers. Prior to NVS, he was founder and chairman of iMODL, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company.
Mr. Quinn has served as chairman of TransEDA, an EDA software company traded on the London Exchange; and has held senior management positions at Unisys, Trilogy, Arix and Exxon. Mr. Quinn received an honors BSEE degree from University College, Cork, Ireland.

Alexander Tokman joined Microvision in July 2005 as a President & COO. Tokman was responsible for managing Microvision’s operations, including sales, marketing, research and development, and supply chain. He was named President & CEO in January 2006. Tokman, a 10+ year GE executive, joined Microvision from GE Healthcare, where most recently he served as General Manager of Global Molecular Imaging & Radiopharmacy—a self-contained, global multi-technology business unit. Over the past five years at GE Tokman defined, developed, and successfully commercialized several new technology businesses including PET/CT, which added $500M+ of organic top line growth to the company within the first three years of its commercial introduction. He is a certified Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt and Master Black Belt and as one of GE's Six Sigma pioneers, he drove the quality culture change across GE Healthcare in the late 1990's. Alexander Tokman received M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Mr. Lim, a Director of the board for MTI and MTI Micro and President and Chief Executive Officer of MTI Micro since May 8, 2006 became Chief Executive Officer of MTI effective December 1, 2006. Prior to MTI Micro, Peng served as the President and CEO of Tapwave, Inc., a company he founded. He was behind the development of the Zodiac, a portable electronic multimedia device that won multiple awards including, "Best Gear" by Time Magazine in 2003. Prior to Tapwave, Peng served as Vice President, Worldwide Product Development for Palm Computing where he was responsible for directing the entire life cycle of product development and engineering for Palm handheld products, operating system and application software. While at Palm, he helped capture 75% worldwide handheld operating system and 65% PDA market shares and quadrupled annual revenues to greater than $1.5 billion. Peng was also part of the executive team that led Palm to a successful IPO in 2000. Prior to Palm, Peng was VP of Engineering at Fujitsu Personal Systems where he introduced industry-leading pen-based and wireless computers that captured a 56% market share. Prior to his tenure at Fujitsu, Peng served as Engineering Platform Director at Texas Instruments and as Director of Advanced Portable Engineering at Zenith Data Systems. In both positions he introduced important innovations in state-of-the-art portable computers. Peng serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Novatel Wireless, a leading 3G wireless solutions company since 2001 and Board of Advisors for Inventec Appliances, a multibillion dollars ODM company since 2006. Peng holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and a Master of Engineering Management from Northwestern University. Peng is an alumnus of the Stanford Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University.

Mr. Hogan brings more than 20 years of front-line leadership experience in the communications systems ICs industry to PulseCore. Most recently, Mr. Hogan served as President, CEO, and Director at Sirific Wireless, a leading supplier of single-chip CMOS RF transceivers for 3.5G applications. While at Sirific, Mr. Hogan lead the company from a university spin out to an RF supplier to top-Tier 3G OEM's. Mr. Hogan also serves on the board of WiQuest Communications a leader in UWB chipset market.
Prior to Sirific, Mr. Hogan was General Manager at Texas Instruments, Wireless Networking Business Unit, managing over 150 employees and five R&D facilities worldwide. While at Texas Instruments, Mr. Hogan also served as general manager of the Broadband Services Unit, additionally he spent nearly ten years in the sales organization where he was responsible for the North American sales strategy for the Network Communication IC segment.
Mr. Hogan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.

Jim Balcom joined PolyFuel in September 2002 from Chrysalix, the fuel cell venture capital firm, where
he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence for approximately one year. Prior to Chrysalix, Jim spent four years
with Sonigistix, a technology start-up in various VP positions developing and commercializing a flat
panel speaker technology licensed from the University of British Columbia. Jim ultimately became
President of the company and negotiated its sale to one of the audio industry’s larger players in 2001.
Prior to Sonigistix, Jim spent four years with Ballard Power Systems in senior fuel cell development
engineering and fuel cell manufacturing management positions. Previously, Jim spent several years in
various operating and management positions with Ball Packaging and Stuart Plastics Recycling Ltd, as
well as management consulting experience with Coopers and Lybrand and Touche Ross and Partners.
Jim has a Systems Design Engineering Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an MBA from Harvard.

Ian Chen has 20 years of experience with semiconductors, having held senior engineering and marketing leadership positions at Analogix Semiconductor, Cypress Semiconductor, IC Works, National Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments. His responsibilities have included graphics, networking, core logic chip sets, microprocessors, cellular handset SoCs, and serial interface devices. At IC Works and Cypress, Mr. Chen was responsible for all timing products. EE Times/Planet Analog described him as “the guy we turn to when we need to think about clock trees, regeneration and chip-to-chip timing issues.” Mr. Chen received Bachelor and Master degrees in electrical engineering and an MBA, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Gary Meyers has been President and CEO of Synplicity since October 2004. During his tenure Synplicity has re-focused on its core FPGA products, improved operating margins from 1% in 2003 to over 10% in 2006, expanded international R&D efforts, and grown market share and customer satisfaction. Mr. Meyers joined Synplicity in January 1998 and served as vice president, worldwide sales since November 1999. In that role, Mr. Meyers was instrumental in increasing sales by more than a factor of ten and expanding the direct sales team throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Meyers was the director of marketing for the Communication Products Division of LSI Logic Corporation. Mr. Meyers also spent seven years at LSI Logic in major account and geographic sales management roles. Before LSI Logic, Mr. Meyers worked as an ASIC designer at TRW, Inc.
Mr. Meyers holds a BSEE, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Maryland and an MBA from UCLA and serves on the board of directors of Synplicity and SpiraTech, Ltd.

Andrew Haines re-joined Synplicity as vice president of marketing in September 2004. His responsibilities include overseeing world-wide marketing activities and expanding Synplicity's leadership role in the FPGA synthesis market. Mr. Haines originally joined Synplicity in 1996 as the company's vice president of marketing and remained in that capacity until 2002, when he departed to pursue interests in the semiconductor intellectual property (IP) industry.
Mr. Haines has more than 29 years experience in marketing high-technology semiconductor and electronic design automation products. Most recently, he served as vice president of business operations at Catalytic, Inc., a DSP Design Automation company. He also served as senior vice president of marketing at ARC International. Before joining Synplicity in 1996, Mr. Haines was president and founder of Page Mill Marketing. Haines also held the position of director of marketing at Actel Corp. and held marketing management positions at VLSI Technology and Intel.
Mr. Haines holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Chris Rowen is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Tensilica, Inc., the inventor of a new kind of microprocessor core and design methodology that solves the overwhelming technical and economical challenges associated with Moore’s Law. Using Tensilica’s approach, customers today are achieving a dramatic return on their investment that would not be possible using traditional semiconductor design approaches. This fulfills the vision Chris had when he founded Tensilica in 1997.
From his early days as a bright and driven physics major at Harvard University, Chris has always had a passion for innovation. Right out of college he plunged into leading-edge technology development at Intel in the late 1970s. There, he learned how semiconductor scaling was starting to drive the electronics universe. His passion drove him to pursue a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in the early 1980s – a decision that would soon change the course of his life and the semiconductor industry.
At Stanford, Chris met a young assistant professor, John Hennessy, who was forming a group to study microprocessor architectures. John went on to become one of the most prominent computer architects of the last two decades and president of Stanford University. As part of his research team, Chris helped co-develop a concept commonly called Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC). The project formed the basis for a new company, called MIPS, which Chris helped to found in 1984, and for Chris’ early work in the study of automated logic synthesis.
Filling a variety of roles, he soon became vice president of microprocessor development, until MIPS was acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1992. Chris was presented with the opportunity to run MIPS in Europe, becoming a kind of Silicon Graphics European CTO and market development leader for graphics, supercomputing and the Internet in the mid 1990s.
In 1996, Chris moved back to California to become general manager of the Design Reuse Group at Synopsys in the early days of system-on-chip (SOC). He led Synopsys’ definition of products and strategies for large-scale intellectual property blocks and design reuse tools. This experience helped him realize the limitations of the current hardware-only oriented EDA mindset and the shortcomings of existing embedded processor cores for SOC design.
Deciding to explore the potential for a new type of processor on his own, he left Synopsys and set up shop in his library at home. Out of this came the realization that a new form of processor – the configurable processor – held the potential to fundamentally change the way complex SOCs are
designed. By providing tools that automate and speed the design of configurable processors, he believed he could fundamentally change the way SOCs are designed. This was the genesis for Tensilica.
Today Tensilica’s automated processor-generation technology has been successful in driving the trend toward using multiple processors on a chip. Its Xtensa configurable processors are licensed by more than 70 of the industry’s leading semiconductor and systems companies. Under Chris’ guidance, the company’s technology is moving the industry down a path of achieving greater flexibility, value, and ROI in the semiconductor business.

Steve Roddy joined Tensilica in 2000. He is responsible for product marketing, marketing communications, technical communications and partner programs.
Prior to Tensilica, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amphion Semiconductor, which has since been acquired by Conexant. He was instrumental in transforming Amphion from a design services company into a provider of audio, video and communications IP (intellectual property). Under his guidance, the company became a leading provider of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 video solutions.
From 1997 to 1999, he was Marketing Director at Cadence, in charge of two design services groups: the multimedia group and the digital IC design group.
Prior to Cadence, he was Product Line Manager in the Silicon Architects Group of the Design Reuse division of Synopsys. It was here that he first started working on issues of IP licensing and distribution. It was also here that he met and worked with Chris Rowen, the founder and President of Tensilica.
Steve’s background also includes ASIC Product Marketing Manager at LSI Logic from 1993 to 1996 and Strategic Marketing Manager at AMCC from 1990 to 1993.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Steve held design and engineering roles at Gould Computing Systems and Burroughs where he designed ASICs for supercomputer, minicomputer and network systems.
Steve holds a BSEE from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management, University of California in Los Angeles.

Walter Ng reports to the Senior Vice President of Technology Development and is responsible for identifying, developing and executing customer and partner alliances that advance the adoption of Chartered’s solutions for the leading-edge and mainstream technology nodes. Walter has led the company’s collaboration with IBM to define the strategy and implementation of the solutions and third-party network for the industry’s first common design enablement platform at 90 nanometer (nm) and 65nm while currently driving 45nm and setting strategy for 32nm. Previously, Walter served as senior director of design solutions and was responsible for driving and managing Chartered’s relationships with third-party EDA and IP partners. Walter has been in the electronic design and EDA industry for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining Chartered, Walter was Director of Business Development and Asia Pacific Operations with Sequence Design. In this position, he was responsible for establishing, managing and growing Sequence Design’s Asia Pacific sales channel and marketing activities in addition to managing the strategic relations program for foundries, EDA and IP partners. From 1994 to 1999, Walter worked with Cadence Design Systems, where he held positions in strategic marketing and numerous roles in applications engineering, consulting services, sales support and marketing. Previously, he has held various senior design and test engineering positions in Raytheon's Equipment Development Labs. Walter holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.B.A from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Ronnie Vasishta assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer at eASIC Corporation after serving as the company's first Executive Vice President of Marketing, overseeing its strategic direction and overall marketing operations. Ronnie brings to eASIC extensive experience in marketing, manufacturing, design and operational management in the semiconductor field.
Prior to joining eASIC Ronnie was Vice President of Technology Marketing at LSI Logic, where he served in various engineering, technical and strategic marketing management positions. He drove the strategic direction of the ASIC product line, and his areas of responsibilities included all aspects of the ASIC and custom logic products -- EDA, design methodology, IP (serving on the board of the VSIA), silicon process technology, manufacturing and strategic partnerships.
Prior to LSI Logic, Vasishta held process and test engineering positions at Motorola Incorporated and STC Semiconductor.
Ronnie has BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

Andrew manages Product Marketing for Intersil’s fast-growing line of consumer power products.  Intersil makes the critical power management ICs that power many of the world’s leading cell phones, headsets, handheld devices and Portable multimedia players.
He has more than 10 years of experience in bringing power management and mixed signal solutions to market in the consumer arena.  He began his career as a Field Applications Engineer and has held various positions including technical sales, business development and product marketing.   He holds a BSEE in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Walden C. Rhines, 61, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of $792 million in 2006.  During his tenure at Mentor Graphics, revenue has more than doubled, growth rate since 1999 has been number one among the “Big 3” EDA companies and Mentor has grown the industry’s number one market share solutions in physical verification, design concept-through-functional verification and printed circuit board design.  

Glenn Perry has served as the General Manager of the ESL-HDL Design Business Unit at Mentor Graphics since 2004. He joined Mentor in 1999 as the engineering director for system level simulation tools, bringing over 20 years of experience in the electronics industry, focused in the simulation and analysis of Systems and IC Design. Prior to Mentor, Perry held engineering and management positions at Analogy(now Synopsis), Harris Semiconductor, Sandia National Laboratories and the United States Air Force Weapons Laboratory. Perry studied electrical engineering in the USAF and University of New Mexico. 

Sawicki is the vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon division, responsible for the Calibre design-to-silicon platform including physical verification, parasitic extraction, resolution enhancement, mask data preparation (MDP) and design for manufacturability (DFM) products. After eight years as an IC designer, Joe joined Mentor Graphics, where for 15 years he has held positions in Applications Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Management. He holds a BSEE from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Northeastern University's High Technology Program.  

Michael is the CTO and founder of Mobius Microsystems (www.mobiusmicro.com). The company’s enabling technology is based on his dissertation work which he conducted under the direction of his faculty advisor, Professor Richard B. Brown. He has published and presented his research at technical conferences in the areas of analog and RF circuits, MEMS, VLSI, SoC, design methodology/ automation and entrepreneurship. Dr. McCorquodale holds a B.S.E. with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, all in electrical engineering.

Tunc Cenger, director of marketing at Mobius Microsystems, has held project lead, marketing and business management positions at Cypress Semiconductor, and most recently at Maxim where he was responsible for establishing the company’s portable audio products business. He has authored a number of technical articles, and has one patent pending on the field of frequency generation. He holds a BSEE in microelectronics from Istanbul Technical  University

Rick Zarr is the World Wide Partnership Marketing Manager at National Semiconductor. Based in Florida, Zarr is responsible for developing technology partnerships with other leading suppliers. He has more than 25 years of practical engineering experience and has published numerous papers and articles. He received the National Semiconductor Applications Engineer of the Year Award in 1994 for his work on battery charging and has lectured on energy management related topics at various industry events both in the US and Asia. Rick holds a BSEE from the University of South Florida.

David Raun joined PLX Technology in November 2004 as Vice President, Marketing. In May 2007 his role was expanded to include VP of Business Development. From January 2002 through November 2004, he was Vice President of Marketing at Pericom Semiconductor. In 2001, Mr. Raun was Executive Vice President & General Manager at Actovate. Prior to Actovate he held several executive positions at Waferscale Integration, Inc., including Vice President of PSD & Memory Products ('97-'00), Vice President of Sales ('96-'97), and Director of Sales ('94-'96). From 1985 to 1995, Mr. Raun held other sales, sales management, and marketing positions at Waferscale and AMD. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Michel has more than 10 years’ experience in SOC design, program management and SOC design center management, developing ASICs as well as ASSPs for automotive and medical applications.
Michel came to ON Semiconductor with the acquisition of AMI Semiconductor. Michel joined AMIS in 2003 and has held a number of positions, including senior director of product development for the AMIS medical wireless products, senior director for enabling technologies, director of libraries and IP and design center manager. Michel was with Alcatel Microelectronics for nine years prior to joining AMIS.

Bruce Watkins is the primary architect of the Pulse~LINK’s business plan and corporate models, bringing together the resources to guide and achieve corporate formation, capitalization, patent development and operations. He oversees day-to-day operations of the company and successfully led Pulse~LINK from start-up and development to being a well-funded leader in UWB communications. He is on the board of directors for Pulse~LINK and the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) and is actively involved in the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the 1394 Trade Association, and CommNexus in San Diego.
Mr. Watkins brings with him over twenty-five years of Business Development experience. This includes nine years with Hilton Hotels Corporation in Sales and Marketing Management through several of Hilton’s flagship properties including the Waldorf=Astoria and the Beverly Hilton at world headquarters. He has co-founded motor sports and Internet companies in addition to consulting on Merger & Acquisition and expansion strategies for luxury hotels, TV and film studios, records management, and other industries.

Previously, Mr. Fritz served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ARC International where he focused on developing the Asian market. He was previously founder and president of Production Languages Corporation, a pioneer in configurable processor technology, where he was awarded a US patent covering fundamental processes related to configurable processors. Production Languages Corporation was subsequently acquired by ZiLOG in 1999, and he then became vice president of ZiLOG's Advanced Cores R & D and ZiLOG's Development Systems Group.  Mr. Fritz holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Manchester College, and began his career at Texas Instruments and DSC Communications.

Russell Stern has served as President and CEO at Solarflare Communications since 2004. He was formerly President and CEO at JNI Corporation in San Diego, California. Prior to JNI, Mr. Stern served as General Manager and COO at Quantum Corporation. For more than 13 years, he held a number of increasingly responsible positions in the disc drive industry including five years at Western Digital Corporation in Irvine, CA, where he held the positions of Sr. VP, R and D, VP, Worldwide Operations and as Co-Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Stern has also held executive engineering and marketing positions with Seagate Technology and Adaptec. He began his career at IBM, where he held various engineering and management positions in the development and manufacturing of the IBM PC / XT / AT and PS/2. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Mr. Stern is also a Foundation Board member of the Orange County High School of the Arts, a chartered public school in Santa Ana, CA

Bruce Tolley is responsible for all marketing activities at Solarflare Communications. Prior to joining Solarflare, Bruce was a Senior Product Line Manager at Cisco Systems where he managed the Ethernet transceiver business. While at Cisco he managed product life cycles and launched Metro Ethernet, 10 Gigabit, and 1000BASE-T switch solutions. Formerly Study Group Chair of the IEEE 802.3aq 10GBASE-LRM standards project, Bruce is a frequent contributor to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards projects and served as an officer of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, he served in various marketing management roles at 3Com Corporation, where among other accomplishments, he launched 3Com’s first Gigabit Ethernet products. Bruce holds a BA from UC Santa Cruz, an MA from Stanford University, MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University.

Scott Becker has more than 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He holds more than 30 semiconductor related patents and serves on 4 technical advisory boards. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sidense Corporation, a Canadian company that was founded on the one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP space.
Scott spent 13 years as co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and board member of Artisan Components, a semiconductor IP company that was acquired by ARM Holdings, Incorporated in December, 2004 for approximately $1 billion. Prior to founding Artisan Components, Scott joined Mentor Graphics as Circuit Design Manager, through its acquisition of Silicon Compilers Systems Corporation. He also held various circuit design engineer positions at Silicon Compilers Systems and Signetics Corporations. Scott has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Tracy Richardson is Vice President Marketing of Tundra Semiconductor, the world's leading supplier of System Interconnect to global communications and storage system companies. Tracy joined Tundra in 2007 and leads the Company's world-wide marketing, and strategic product development and roll-out activities.
With over 20 years of executive management in semiconductors and computing systems, and with experience in business development, sales and marketing, engineering and strategy development, Tracy plays a central role in augmenting the Company’s leadership position in System Interconnect.
Prior to Tundra, Tracy held a variety of executive, senior management, and marketing positions within Mercury Computer Systems, Stargen Inc., Intel, Digital Semiconductor, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Tracy received a Bachelors of Science from San Diego State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Bentley College in Waltham, MA.

Moshe Gavrielov serves as president and CEO of Xilinx. He is responsible for formulating the company’s overall strategy, vision and focus necessary for Xilinx to continue its pace of rapid growth and expansion.
Gavrielov brings nearly 30 years of executive management and engineering experience with semiconductor and software companies to his new position at the helm of Xilinx. Most recently, he served as executive vice president and general manager of the fast-growing verification division at Cadence Design Systems. Before that, Gavrielov spent seven years as CEO of Verisity, Ltd., where he grew the company from a $4M start-up, taking it through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2001, to a $70M publicly -traded company, ultimately acquired by electronic design automation leader Cadence in 2005.
Previously, Gavrielov spent nearly ten years at LSI Logic Corp., where he served in a variety of executive management positions, including executive vice president for the $1.3B products group, senior vice president of international markets, general manager for Europe, and general manager of the ASIC division. Gavrielov began his career in engineering and engineering management at National Semiconductor and Digital Equipment.
Gavrielov earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, Israel. He possesses five patents.

David Pederson is Vice President Corporate Marketing at Zoran Corporation. Prior to joining Zoran in January 2003, he spent over seventeen years at National Semiconductor in various engineering, strategic marketing and management positions including Director Set Top Box product line. Mr. Pederson has over twenty-four years experience in the semiconductor industry including more than six years at Teledyne. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. As a recognized expert in his field, he has been invited to deliver numerous talks on Digital Video, PVRs, Set top boxes, Digital Televisions, the Networked Entertainment Center and the Challenges to Creating a Connected Digital Home and Connected Consumer Products.