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Prakash Narain, Ph.D.
President, CEO
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Dr. Prakash Narain's career spans IBM, AMD and Sun where he got hands on experience with all aspects of IC design, CAD tools design and methodology. He was the project leader for test and verification for UltraSPARC IIi at Sun Microsystems. He was an architect of the Mercury Design System at AMD He has architected and developed CAD tools for test and verification for IBM EDA. Dr. Narain has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where his thesis focus was on algorithms for high level testing and verification.
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Rajiv Kumar
Chief Operating Officer
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Rajiv Kumar spent almost 12 years at Hewlett-Packard in both engineering and managerial capacities. During his tenure, he worked on several generations of the PA-RISC processor and HP's high-end server systems. He also worked on the joint development of Itanium processor with the Intel engineering team. He was a key architect for HP's transition from 32-bit to 64-bit platform where he led over 100 engineers in delivering HP's first 64-bit system. Mr. Kumar holds graduate degrees in management from Stanford and in computer science from University of Oregon.
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Chris Morrison, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
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Dr. Chris Morrison was employee #2 at Real Intent. He brings over 22 years of EDA software engineering experience to the team. Previous to Real Intent he led the engineering development of clock tree generation and placement based optimization tools at Cadence Design Systems. Prior to that he worked at Viewlogic Systems. His PhD is from the University of Colorado and BSEE is from Yale University.
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Rich Faris
VP Marketing and Business Development
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Rich Faris has been contributing in a wide variety of senior roles in EDA. His area of specialization has been Verification and Synthesis for more than 16 years. Most recently, Mr. Faris managed the most productive channel within Mentor Graphics for FPGA Synthesis Solutions. Prior to that, he held senior and executive roles at IKOS Systems, including VP of Information Technology, Senior Director of Services, and Senior Director of Marketing. His start in EDA was at Dazix where he specialized in front end tools. Mr. Faris received his BSEE from Northwestern University and his Masters in Computer Architecture from University of Southern California.
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Carol Hallett
Vice President of World Wide Sales |
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Carol brings a wealth of experience in sales, marketing and operational management positions in semiconductor, computer, and EDA industries. Prior to Real Intent, Carol was the Vice President at Tharas, which was acquired by EVE. Prior to Tharas she was at Phoenix Technologies, Mentor Graphics and Tera Systems in sales roles. She was the vice president of Sales for Blue Pearl, TransEDA and RoyoCAD. She began her career at National Semiconductors and Surface Mounted Technology in various technical and operational roles. |
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