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Dave Burow has more than 20 years' senior management experience. Prior to Agility, he was executive chairman of Arithmatica, an Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) firm that uses advances in silicon math algorithms to lower costs and power while increasing speed for math-intensive chips. He was been a senior vice president at Synopsys Inc., where he served as general manager of the Verification Group and of the Internet Design and Services Group, and a group vice president at Viewlogic in charge of their IC design automation business. Dave has also held CEO and senior management positions within the EDA and semiconductor industries at Silicon Architects, CrossCheck Technology, SimuCAD and Fairchild Semiconductor. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Dave serves on the Board of Directors of Arithmatica Limited, Claria Corporation and Numetrics Management Systems Inc.
Randy Allen has over 20 years of software and compiler development experience in startup companies, advanced technology divisions, and research organizations. Prior to founding Catalytic, he served as Vice President of Engineering at CynApps, Vice President of Performance Engineering at Chronologic Simulation, Executive Director of Software Development at Kubota/Ardent Computer, and Director in the Advanced Technology Group at Synopsys.
Randy Allen is coauthor of the book Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures. He has authored or coauthored 15 conference and journal papers on compiler optimization, restructuring compilers, and hardware simulation. Randy received his A.B. Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University.
Forest Baskett is a General Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which he joined in 1999 to focus on information technology companies. Forest was previously Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics, Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1986 before joining SGI. Prior to that Forest was a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1971 to 1982. He also spent two years at Los Alamos National Laboratory building an operating system for the original Cray-1 computer and a year and a half at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Principal Scientist doing VLSI research. At Stanford, Forest worked with Andy Bechtolsheim on the SUN workstation project, with Jim Clark on the Geometry Engine project, and with John Hennessy on the MIPS microprocessor project. Forest received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Faysal Sohail joined CMEA Ventures in 2002 as a Managing Director. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Alien Technology, Applied Wave Research, Inovys Corporation. Faysal has more than a decade of senior executive experience in engineering, marketing and business development. He was CEO of Cadabra Design Automation and managed its acquisition by Numerical Technologies (NMTC) where he served as Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Prior to Numerical chnologies, Faysal was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Synopsys Inc. (SNPS). In 1990, he founded Silicon Architects, which was acquired by Synopsys in 1995. Earlier in his career, Faysal spent several years in IC design engineering and marketing positions with Actel Corporation (ACTL) and LSI Logic Corporation (LSI). Faysal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) where he also serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board (CEAB).
Doug Fairbairn has a wide variety of entrepreneurial accomplishments and broad management experience, ranging from startups to running a $150 million semiconductor division. He founded the semiconductor company VLSI Technology, which is now part of Philips Semiconductor, the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) firm Redwood Design Automation, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NYSE: CDN) and where he served as general manager, and the magazine VLSI Design.
Doug currently serves on the Boards of Poseidon Design Systems, Quickfilter Technologies, and Silicon Design Systems. He received both an BSEE and MSEE from Stanford University in 1971.