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Ravi
Subramanian, Ph.D., President
& CEO
Since entering the wireless communications and
semiconductor industry 17 years ago, Ravi's experience
has spanned research, product development, marketing,
sales, and general management roles. He began his career
as the Company Scientist at TCSI in Berkeley, where he
developed RF and baseband modem technology for the first
generation of DSP-based digital mobile phones. While at
AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1991-1995, he was a key
member of the team that developed the world's first GSM
merchant chipset, for which he won the AT&T Leadership
Award. From 1995-1998, at Synopsys, Ravi held product
marketing and business-line responsibilities in the
Design Tools Group. In 1998, he co-founded and then was
CEO of Morphics Technology, a fabless semiconductor
company developing multi-protocol CDMA wireless
communications ICs. In 2003, Morphics was acquired by
Infineon Technologies, the world’s second largest
supplier of semiconductors for wireless communications.
At Infineon, Ravi was the VP&GM of the WCDMA business
group in the Secure Mobile Solutions (SMS) Business
Unit. Ravi received his BSEE (honors) from the
California Institute of Technology (1987). He earned his
Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at
Berkeley (1991), where he was a recipient of the
prestigious UC Regent's Fellowship. He is the lead
author on 15 issued United States patents on signal
processing techniques in mobile communications. Ravi has
been named to RutbergCo’s Wireless Influencers list
every year since 2006- the list cites the 200 people
with the greatest influence on the wireless industry. He
is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE),
a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals,
established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs. In 2010, Ravi was elected to the EDA Consortium (EDAC) Board of
Directors 2010-2012 term.
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Paul Estrada, Chief
Operating Officer
Prior to BDA, Estrada spent nearly 6 years at Cadence Design Systems
where he was general manager for Encounter Test, corporate vice
president of strategy, and launched the Virtuoso custom design
platform, Encounter digital design platform, and Incisive functional
verification platform. In 1996, he co-founded 0-In Design Automation
and helped pioneer assertion-based verification as their VP
verification engineering. From 1992-1996 Estrada was responsible for
synthesis marketing at Synopsys during that business’
explosive growth
period. He also has experience in the semiconductor, wireless
communication, and industrial automation industries. Estrada holds
engineering degrees with top honors from Stanford University and the
University of Illinois. He also holds three patents.
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Mike Ellow, Vice
President of Worldwide Sales
With over 20 years of executive sales and technical management experience, Ellow has a proven track record of delivering exceptional results. Most recently he served as corporate vice president sales at Cadence Design Systems where he was responsible for managing the entire North American field team. Ellow was at Cadence for 13 years, quickly rising through sales management from his initial position as global account director in 1997. Prior to Cadence, he held management and engineering positions in several industries. Ellow has a BSEE from Lehigh University, an MSEE from University of Southern California, and an MBA from California State University – Fullerton.
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Kelly
Perey, Vice
President of
Applications and Services
Kelly Perey has over 20 years of high-tech experience in companies
ranging from startups to the Fortune 100. Most recently, Perey was
corporate vice president Cadence Design Systems where she led the
company’s innovative kits program for solutions delivery.
Prior to
Cadence, Perey was at Sun Microsystems for 7 years where she led a 100+
person global organization servicing 16,000 software development
partners. From 1991 – 1995 she held various product marketing
management positions at Synopsys, including responsibility for their
synthesis product line. Perey’s background also includes
organizational
consulting, marketing consulting, and design engineering. She holds a
BSEE from UC Irvine.
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Amit
Mehrotra, Ph.D., Founder,
Chief Technology
Officer
Dr. Mehrotra received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1994, and M.S. and Ph.D.
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 and 1999
respectively. His doctoral dissertation was a fundamental contribution
in the area of noise analysis and design of analog and RF integrated
circuits. From 1999-2003, Dr. Mehrotra was an Assistant Professor with
the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a research assistant professor with
the Illinois Center for Integrated Micro-Systems group at the
Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University. At IIT Kanpur, Dr.
Mehrotra received the President of India Gold Medal, the highest award
given by the institute for academic excellence. Dr. Mehrotra has
received numerous awards for his publications including best paper
awards in the 1997 International Conference on Computer Design, the
2001 Design Automation Conference, and the
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Nafees Qureshy , Vice
President of Engineering
An experienced engineering executive, Nafees Qureshy has
over 20 years experience managing leading-edge EDA
verification software development. He has a proven track
record of leading multi-national teams that deliver
high-quality state-of-the-art products. Qureshy’s prior
experience includes VP engineering positions at NuSym
Technology, Arteris, and Jasper Design Automation.
Earlier in his career, he was senior engineering
director at CoWare, engineering director at IKOS
Systems, and senior software engineer at Schlumberger
Technologies. Qureshy has an MSCS from Arizona State
University and a B. Tech., Electrical Engineering from
IIT, Bombay. |
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