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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 also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs),
a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals,
established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.
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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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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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Raj Raghuram, Ph.D., Vice
President of Engineering
Dr. Raghuram received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He joined Berkeley
Design Automation in 2003, where he has been the architect and leader
of the core simulation engine development team. Prior to joining BDA,
Dr. Raghuram was the senior director of technical marketing at Sigrity.
He was co-founder of Applied Simulation Technology, a circuit analysis
software provider spun out of Contec Microelectronics, where Dr.
Raghuram served as Vice President of Research and Development. Dr.
Raghuram’s distinguished career includes twelve years as
assistant
professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT, Kanpur. He
is the author of ‘Computer Simulation of Electronic
Circuits’, a
textbook used at universities world-wide. |
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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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