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Ravi Subramanian   Ravi Subramanian, Ph.D., President & CEO
Ravi has been involved with the communications IC industry for 15 years, spanning R&D, marketing, and entrepreneurial roles. He began his career as the Company Scientist at TCSI in Berkeley, where he developed DSP software for 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 1998, he co-founded Morphics Technology, a fabless semiconductor company developing multi-protocol CDMA wireless communications ICs. While he was CEO of Morphics from 2002-2003, the company was acquired by Infineon Technologies, the world’s second largest supplier of semiconductors for wireless communications. 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 was named to RutbergCo’s Wireless Influencers 2006 list.



Paul Estrada   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.



Amit Mehrotra   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 International Conference on Computer Design 1997 and the Design Automation Conference 2001.



Raj Raghuram
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.



Kelly Perey
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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