Lucio L. Lanza
Managing Director
Lanza Tech Ventures
Dr. Lanza has more than 30 years of experience in the electronics industry in marketing, engineering, and general management, including 10 years at Olivetti in engineering management, six years at Intel as marketing executive and then as chairman of the microprocessor business segment, and group vice president at Daisy Systems Corporation. In 1986, he founded and was chief executive officer of EDA Systems, a venture-backed firm that was acquired by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1989.
Dr. Lanza also spent six years as an independent consultant, working closely with CEOs of semiconductor, communications, and computer-aided design companies (notably Cadence Design Systems and Landmark Graphics) to define corporate strategic directions. He spent the last 15 years in the venture business, first at USVP and now as the managing director of Lanza Tech Ventures (LTV), a venture firm with the mission of financing and actively helping entrepreneurs build companies with long-term value. LTV typically gets involved at the very early formative stages and stays actively involved throughout the growth phases of the company. The main areas of focus and expertise are semiconductors, silicon infrastructure, and technical software.
Dr. Lanza's past investments include, among others, Crescendo Communications, Intrinsa, Artisan Components, PdF Solutions, Epic Design, CadMos, Mojave, and Hier Design. He serves on the board of ARM Holdings, is chairman of the board of PdF Solutions, and serves on the board of directors of several private companies including Forte Design Systems, Gradient DA, Extreme DA, Critical Blue, and Pharmix Corp. He holds a doctorate in electronic engineering from Politecnico of Milano and is a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
John Bourgoin
Chief Executive Officer and President
MIPS Technologies
Mr. Bourgoin brings more than 30 years of semiconductor experience to his role, drawing from past roles in business management and microprocessor development at MIPS Technologies and AMD, and earlier, in engineering management at Motorola Semiconductor Products division in Phoenix, Arizona. Previously, Mr. Bourgoin was senior vice president of Silicon Graphics, Inc. and president of the MIPS group of SGI. Prior to that, he was group vice president of the Computation Products group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Bourgoin received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Arizona State University.
Benny Chang
Vice President of Engineering
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
Dr. Chang joined Tundra following its acquisition of Quadic Systems, Inc. of South Portland, Maine, in September 2000. He was previously vice president of research and development and treasurer at Quadic Systems. Dr. Chang has more than 20 years' experience in the integrated circuit industry. In 1978, he joined International Computers, Ltd. of the U.K. and worked on the design of emitter coupled logic (ECL) gate arrays. From 1980 until 1984, he was at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he worked on the design of Fairchild Advanced Schottky TTL (FAST) integrated circuits. A Fairchild Key Technologist, Dr. Chang was a recipient of the Fairchild President's Award in 1984 for his work in the FAST logic family.
Robert Hum
Vice President and General Manager
Design Verification and Test Division
Mentor Graphics
Mr. Hum, who joined Mentor with the IKOS Systems acquisition, was named vice president and general manager of the Design Verification and Test division. Mr. Hum has more than 25 years of experience in worldwide engineering, marketing, business development, and operations. Most recently the executive vice president and chief operating officer of IKOS, he has also held senior business and technology management positions at both Cadence Design Systems and Bell-Northern Research (Nortel). Mr. Hum has an M.S. in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Kathryn Kranen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jasper Design Automation
Ms. Kranen is responsible for leading Jasper's team in bringing the company's pioneering technology to the mainstream design verification market. She has 15 years' EDA industry experience and a proven management track record, serving as president and chief executive officer of Verisity Design, Inc., U.S. headquarters of Verisity Ltd. Ms. Kranen and the team she built created an entirely new market in design verification. Verisity later became a public company and was the top-performing IPO of 2001. Prior to Verisity, Ms. Kranen was vice president of North American sales at Quickturn Systems. She started her career as a design engineer at Rockwell International, and later joined Daisy Systems, an early EDA company. Ms. Kranen graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in electrical engineering. Ms. Kranen currently serves on the EDA Consortium board of directors.
Wolfgang Roesner
Distinguished Engineer, System and Technology Group
IBM
Dr. Roesner received a Dr. Ing. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, before joining the IBM development lab in Boeblingen, Germany, in 1984. He developed simulators and hardware design languages at IBM in Boeblingen, later joining the POWER and PowerPC processor development teams in Austin, Texas, in 1989. There, he co-developed the Texsim cycle-based simulation system and was named overall technical lead for IBM's verification tool development in 1996. His verification tools have been used on all IBM CMOS microprocessor and system projects. Since 2003 he has been responsible for IBM Systems Group's verification methodology and is server verification lead, with the technical responsibility of all verification for server chips and systems.
Nader Vasseghi
Director of Engineering, Advanced Routing Technology
Cisco Systems
Mr. Vasseghi was the chief executive officer and co-founder of AuroraNetics, Inc., which was acquired by Cisco in August 2001. He has more than 23 years of experience in technical leadership and senior management at Sebring Networks/PLX technologies, 3dfx, SGI/MIPS and AMD. He has led development efforts to deliver various products such as switch fabrics, graphics accelerators, millions of instructions per second (MIPS) high-performance microprocessors, and network controllers. He holds four patents and has published several papers on very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design.