CORPORATE
OVERVIEW
TEAM
BIOGRAPHIES
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
AFFILIATIONS
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TEAM BIOGRAPHIES
Venktesh Shukla
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Shukla has had a long and varied career
that includes sales, marketing, and general management, and a proven
track record of leading companies through rapid growth. He was most
recently senior vice president of marketing and business development
at Magma Design Automation, Inc. Before joining Magma, Shukla was
the CEO of Everypath, Inc., a leader in enterprise mobile computing.
Previously, he was vice president of marketing at Ambit Design
Systems, Inc., and prior to that, vice president of marketing at
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. In 1990, Shukla helped found the
standards organization Open Verilog International (OVI), which has
since become Accellera. He holds a Masters in Management from MIT
Sloan School of Management and a Bachelors of Electronics from M.A.
National Institute of Technology, Bhopal in India.
Chris Wilson
Founder and Chief
Technical Officer
Wilson possesses extensive experience in all aspects of hardware design in senior roles at companies such as Amdahl, HaL Computers, and Tandem Computers, and startups such as Andor Systems and Candlestick Networks. Wilson's expertise ranges from architecture definition to design, verification, and system integration. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2002, an MS in EE from Stanford, and BS in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Nafees Qureshy
Vice President of Engineering
Qureshy possesses more than 19 years experience in key technical and managerial leadership roles, with the majority of that time focused on electronic design automation functional verification tool development. Most recently, he was Vice President of Engineering at Arteris, a Network-On-Chip interconnect intellectual property company. Before Arteris, Qureshy was Vice President of Engineering at Jasper Design Automation, and prior to that he led the development of SystemC-based High Level System Design tools at CoWare, as the Senior Director of Engineering. Qureshy also spent 10 years at IKOS Systems in several technical and management positions eventually becoming Director of Engineering. Qureshy received a MS degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.
Raghu Srigiriraju
Vice
President and Managing Director
Nusym Technology India Pvt
Ltd.
Srigiriraju brings strong management and technical leadership experience to Nusym. Recently, Srigiriraju was founder and CEO of the EDA software services company, Mirafra Technologies. Prior to that, he led the VCS simulation R&D team in Synopsys, Bangalore, where he successfully delivered numerous technology advances for the simulator. Srigiriraju was a key developer in the Synopsys VCS R&D group in the USA for seven years. Srigiriraju received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Kenneth
Imboden
Co-Founder
Imboden has over 15 years
of EDA development experience at Amdahl Computers, where he was
Principal Engineer and key developer of a simulator for large
mainframe computer designs. More recently, he was Director and
Principal Software Architect for MMC Networks. He received a MS
degree in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State
University, and a BS degree in Computer Science from Purdue
University.
David
Gold
Co-Founder
Gold has over 25 years of
engineering experience in ASIC verification, hardware and software
design. His work has spanned EDA, networking, and commercial
and government research programs. Prior to Nusym, Gold worked at
Candlestick Networks, Essential Communications, and the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, as well as in his own verification consulting
company. Gold received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of New Mexico.
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