Michael Bohm

Michael Bohm is the Vice President of Engineering and CTO of AccelChip, Inc. Prior to AccelChip Mr. Bohm was Chief Scientist and Technology Fellow for Mentor Graphics. Before AccelChip and Mentor Graphics, Bohm was responsible for IC/ASIC development at Harris Semiconductor.

At Harris he worked closely with the founders of Synopsys when they started in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Mr. Bohm worked onsite at Synopsys, Cadence, and CrossCheck as a Harris Semiconductor employee from 1989 - 1991, where he contributed to the development of their Design Compiler technology. In 1991 he joined Mentor Graphics and led the development of AutoLogic II. He later became vice president and chief scientist at Exemplar. When Mentor Graphics acquired Exemplar, Mr. Bohm oversaw the technical development and direction of their HDL tool set for FPGA design. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Robert Dobkin

Robert Dobkin is a founder and Chief Technical Officer of Linear Technology Corporation. Prior to founding Linear Technology in 1981, Mr. Dobkin was Director of Advanced Circuit Development at National Semiconductor for eleven years.

Mr. Dobkin has been involved in the development of high performance linear integrated circuits for over 25 years. Many industry standard linear circuits now in production worldwide were developed by Mr. Dobkin. He holds over 50 patents on linear ICs and has authored over 50 articles in technical publications.

Mr. Dobkin attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Fuccio

Mr. Fuccio has over 20 years experience in marketing, sales, and general management in the semiconductor, computer, and EDA industry. Over the past 10 years Mr. Fuccio has invested in and helped launch several new companies and their products. He is currently CEO of Superlinear Simulation, and was previously president of Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. a professional services firm offering outsourced marketing and sales services to startup companies in the EDA, semiconductor IP, and software markets.

Prior to Tactics Mr. Fuccio ran SGI's embedded workstation business which sold visualization workstations to OEMs and system integrators. Earlier in his career he held several marketing and product management roles at Daisy Systems Corporation, and developed CAD software at Trilogy Systems Corporation and Philips Laboratories. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aubrey Helms

Dr. Aubrey L. Helms, Jr. is President and CEO of Tiger Venture Analysis Inc. He has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University and over 20 years of experience in Technology Development, Engineering Management, New Product Development, IP Management, Mergers and Acquisitions experience and Strategic Business Planning. He is the author of over 30 publications and an inventor on 6 patents. He is also a Registered Patent Agent.

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