Management
Dean Drako
President and CEO |
Dean was the founder, President and CEO of Velosel Corporation prior to founding IC Manage. At Velosel, Dean closed two rounds of venture financing and built the product and company strategy. Dean was also the founder of Boldfish, a leading provider of enterprise messaging solutions that was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2003. Prior to Boldfish, Dean was founder, President and CEO of Design Acceleration, Inc (DAI), a maker of superior design analysis and verification tools. Cadence Design Systems acquired DAI in 1998. Dean has also been VP of Product Engineering at the 3DO Company and was instrumental in the development of the PowerPC architecture at Apple Computer. Dean received his BSEE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MSEE from the University of California, Berkeley. |
Shiv Sikand
Vice President of Engineering |
Shiv first started tackling the problems related to design data management at HAL Computer Systems during the
SPARC v9 development program. It was while working on the MIPS processor families at SGI that he designed, implemented and deployed
cdsp4, the Cadence-Perforce integration after extensive research. It was used extensively within MIPS and in the Advanced Graphics
Division. After cdsp4 was Open Sourced, he worked closely with a large group of design professionals in Silicon Valley to enhance
his original work. Prior to founding IC Manage, Shiv was at Matrix Semiconductor working on the world's first three-dimensional
memory chips. He did his post-graduate research on the design of asynchronous controllers at the University of Manchester, UK in
collaboration with ARM Ltd, Philips Research Labs in Holland and IMEC in Belgium. Shiv received his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. |
Gary Gendel
Chief Software Architect |
Gary has had a very distinguished and prolific career in hardware and software development. His expertise spans
a broad range of technical disciplines including developing Integrated Circuits, EDA software, and embedded software products. For the last 13 years Gary has been the CTO of Genashor where he did development work for a number of EDA and other companies including: Mentor Graphics, Zycad, Protocol, Valid, Apple, IBM, Harris Semiconductor, Sarnoff Corporation, Star Semiconductor, HAL Computer Systems, SGI, AT&T, Nordic VLSI, and Christiania Bank as well as supporting Amulet project at the University of Manchester. Prior to Genashor, Gary was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at RCA Solid State Technology Center, GE Semiconductor and Harris Semiconductor. Gary is widely published, has been granted three patents, and has received the following awards: several Sarnoff Outstanding Technical Achievement team and individual awards, an RCA SSD Technical Excellence Award, and the prestigious RCA David Sarnoff Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement. He has received two Emmy awards from the National Academy of Television Sciences for his development work in Digital television. Gary received his BSEE and MS (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Technology) from New Jersey Institute of Technology. |
Roger March
Chief Technology Officer |
Roger began his career as a circuit and logic designer in the early days of microprocessors and dynamic RAMs. While
working as a designer at Data General and Zilog on long forgotten products like the microNova, microEclipse and Z80K, he found himself
drawn to the CAD side to provide design tools that the marketplace was not yet offering. He wrote circuit, logic and fault simulators
that were used to build and verify microprocessors of the day. Roger then joined MIPS as their first CAD engineer. Here he built their infrastructure, this time using a combination of vendor and internal tools. This system was used to build all the MIPS microprocessors as well as most of their system designs. He wrote module generators for chip physical design, placement and allocation tools for board designs, test pattern generators and coverage tools for verification, and yet another logic simulator - it was found to be 30X faster than Verilog-XL in benchmarks. After MIPS was acquired by Silicon Graphics, Roger became a Principal Engineer at the company. Working in the microprocessor division, he worked on problems in logic verification and timing closure. This dragged him more deeply into the realm of design databases. He wrote several tools to help analyze and manipulate physical, logical and parasitic extraction data sets. This included work in fault simulation, static timing verification, formal verification, physical floor planning and physical timing optimization. Roger most recently worked at Matrix Semiconductor. He designed and helped build most of their CAD infrastructure. He worked mainly on the physical and process side and also on optimizing layout for manufacturability. |
Jerry Rau
Vice President of Sales |
Prior to IC Manage, Jerry was Vice President of Business Development and Sales for Numetrics, an ERP company focused on Semiconductor and Embedded Software R&D. From 1990 to 2005, Jerry served in a variety of sales executive and key product management roles at Synopsys, covering at different times EDA software products, IP, professional services, global accounts, indirect channels and Asia / Japan. Prior to Synopsys, he drove ASIC and embedded array product development teams at LSI Logic. Jerry started his career as a process engineer at AMD, focusing on non-volatile EPROM and E2PROM memory technology development. Jerry received his BS in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MS in materials science / semiconductor physics from Stanford University. |
