Management
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Jack Harding, Chairman, President and CEO
Jack Harding is responsible for eSilicon's overall leadership, strategy and management. Mr. Harding brings more than 25 years of management experience in the semiconductor industry, spanning the EDA and IC sectors. Prior to co-founding eSilicon in 2000 Harding was the President and CEO of Cadence Designs Systems. During his tenure at Cadence the company was the world's largest supplier of electronics design software and provided the greatest shareholder value in the history of the company. Mr. Harding entered Cadence upon the acquisition of Cooper & Chyan Technology (CCT), where he served as the President and CEO, and was responsible for leading the company to an IPO. Prior to CCT Mr. Harding served as the Executive Vice President of Zycad Corporation. Harding began his career with distinction at IBM.
Mr. Harding maintains a balanced career providing his services to industry, academia and government. Mr. Harding has held various directorships in both public and private organizations and is currently on the Board of Directors of RF Micro Devices (NASDAQ; RFMD), the Atrenta Advisory Board and is also the Chairman of eSilicon Corporation. Harding has also held leadership roles at Drew University and Indiana University (IU) where he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a member of IU's premier School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) Advisory Board, respectively.
In the public policy arena Mr. Harding has served as a member of the prestigious Steering Committee at the US Council on Competiveness and was a former National Academies' Committee member for Software, Growth and the Future of the U.S. Economy. In 2010, Mr. Harding was elected as the new value chain producer director to the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). Prior to this, Mr. Harding served a 3-year term on the GSA board as a semiconductor director. He also serves on the GSA Finance Committee. He is a frequent international speaker on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship and semiconductor trends and policies. Harding holds a B.A. from Drew University in Chemistry and Economics and attended the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Mr. Harding has been a finalist for the Ernst & Young Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Electronics Executive of the Year ACE Award. Under Harding's leadership, eSilicon has enjoyed significant recognition and has won numerous awards including the GSA's Start Up to Watch, Red Herring's Top 100, AlwaysOn's Top 100 Private Companies, Nollenberger Partners' Top 200 Leading Private Companies and the prestigious Inc. Magazine's #3 Fastest Growing Private Company in the US.
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Hugh Durdan, Chief Operating Officer
Hugh Durdan is responsible for the company's overall operations management. Mr. Durdan is focused on the development, design, operations and quality of eSilicon's products and services.
Mr. Durdan has more than 28 years of systems, semiconductor and ASIC business experience. Most recently, Mr. Durdan was Vice President of Marketing at eSilicon. Prior to joining eSilicon, Durdan served as vice president of the CCI and Technical Services business group at Altera Corporation, where he drove revenue from $350 million to $550 million in two years, booked over $1 billion worth of design wins, and spear-headed Altera's expansion into the digital consumer market. Prior to this, Durdan served three and a half years at LSI Logic as the vice president and general manager of the Computer and Consumer Divisions. Prior to joining LSI Logic, Durdan was the vice president of engineering at Mylex, a RAID and SCSI host adapter company. Durdan started his career at Digital Equipment Corp with roles in marketing and engineering management. He holds a BSCE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Gino Skulick, Vice President Worldwide Sales
Gino Skulick is responsible for the company's global sales activities.
Mr. Skulick leads eSilicon's worldwide sales organization. He has more than 25 years of experience building and leading sales organizations in the semiconductor industry. His expertise in creating, defining and executing sales strategy to penetrate large OEM system companies has been recognized throughout his career. Most recently, Skulick served as vice president of Epiphany Sales, one of the nation's largest manufacturer's representative firms, which specializes in the sales and marketing of semiconductors and related electronic components. Before this, Skulick was the CEO of Aspen Technologies, a manufacturer of microwave assemblies and semiconductor components. Prior to this, Skulick served as vice president of Emerging Technology Sales. Skulick's experience includes management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Hughes Aircraft Company. He holds a BS in Administrative Sciences (Financial Emphasis), graduating cum laude from Pepperdine University. Skulick was a Junior College Academic All-American football player in 1974.
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Patrick Soheili, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Patrick Soheili is responsible for the company's overall marketing activities, including product and corporate marketing and strategic growth and business development activities.
Soheili has over 25 years of demonstrated success at several leading high-tech companies. He has extensive sales and marketing experience in driving significant revenue growth coupled with valuable start-up experience from the entrepreneur and investor perspective.
In the past, Patrick has been President and CEO of On Demand Microelectronics, Cradle Technologies and Softcoin. Patrick was a founding partner of Barrington Partners, a technology focused Venture Capital firm from 1998 to 2002. As one of four founding General Partners, he played a key role at Barrington, funding 14 technology start-ups which included 3 IPO's and 3 multi-million dollar acquisitions.
Prior to Barrington, Patrick was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Invox Technology. Prior to that, Patrick was a senior executive with Altera Corporation during their time of considerable growth from 1989 to 1997, growing his business from $5M to over $200M per year. Before Altera, he spent several years in various marketing management positions with AMD and TRW.
Patrick completed his Bachelors in Mathematics (Physics) from University of California, Santa Barbara (and Bristol, UK), and holds an MBA from Purdue University.
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Jim Lindstrom, Chief Financial Officer
Jim Lindstrom is responsible for the overall management and direction of the company's worldwide finance, information technology, and corporate development functions.
Mr. Lindstrom brings more than 30 years of experience in financial management and strategic planning to eSilicon. Notable accomplishments include leading successful IPOs at ECAD and Trident MicroSystems (NASDAQ: TRID), and managing the landmark merger of ECAD with SDA, which formed Cadence Design Systems (NYSE: CDN). Prior to eSilicon, Jim served as vice president and CFO of Silicon Perspective, where he planned and oversaw the company's acquisition by Cadence. Previous experience includes CFO positions at FormFactor (NASDAQ: FORM), C-Cube MicroSystems (acquired by LSI Logic), Plexus Computers, ECAD, and Finnigan Corporation. He began his career at Fairchild. Lindstrom received a BS in Finance from UC Berkeley, and an MBA in Finance and Business Economics from USC. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC).
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Duytan Tran, Vice President, SDS Business Unit
President, SDS
Duytan Tran is responsible for the overall management of eSilicon's SDS Business Unit. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Mr. Tran was most recently the president and co-founder of Silicon Design Solutions (SDS) where he drove the business success of the company, industry-wide adoption of its specialty embedded memory IP products and the eventual acquisition of SDS by eSilicon in May 2010. SDS memory IP has enabled products for some of the largest IDMs such as Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, Freescale Semiconductor. Mr. Tran has received industry acclaim for his success as a key contributor to the development of the optimized memory compiler methodology and specialized memory IP including B-CAM, T-CAM, TLB, High Speed Cache for microprocessors, and multi-port SRAM for networking routers and switches.
Prior to SDS, Mr. Tran held a broad range of key management and technical positions at IMMI, Motorola, Nexgen Microsystem, and LSI Logic. He received his BSEE from University California at Berkeley and a Physics degree from Natural Sciences University in Saigon, Vietnam.
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Fritz Koehler, Vice President and General Counsel
Fritz Koehler is responsible for the company's legal affairs, worldwide intellectual property and global security.
Mr. Koehler brings more than 15 years of legal and business experience to eSilicon. Prior to eSilicon, he served as vice president and general counsel for Marimba and served as the chief legal officer for Micro Focus and Merant. He also worked at the high-technology law firms of Fenwick & West and the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison at the start of his career. Mr. Koehler received his B.A. degrees in international relations and history from Stanford University and his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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John McSorley, Vice President of Human Resources
John McSorley is responsible for developing eSilicon's global human resources strategy and programs. In this role, he creates policies and procedures for attracting and retaining a highly talented workforce that supports the company's fast growth and performance-driven culture.
Before joining eSilicon, Mr. McSorley was VP of HR for Nvidia, where he set the strategy and created programs to support the company's growth from a 90-person startup to a 2,500-person post IPO company. Prior to Nvidia, he was senior director of HR at Synopsys with responsibility for mergers and acquisitions, HR and executive searches. He was also director of HR for Apple Computer and HR manager at Dayton Hudson Corporation. Mr. McSorley received his Bachelor of Science in marketing from Ohio State University.
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Hao Nham Vice, President & General Manager, Design Services
Hao Nham is responsible for the company's customer designs. Mr. Nham also manages eSilicon's internal design teams and the Design Services Network.
Mr. Nham brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology product development, with extensive experience in advanced software products and IC and system design methodology. Prior to joining eSilicon, Nham was vice president of engineering at Cadence Design Systems, where he was responsible for advanced IC extraction and analysis and formal verification products. From 1992 to 1998, he held engineering director positions at Lucent Technologies where he led the transitioning of Lucent's internal EDA organization into a profitable and high-growth commercial business. Nham started his career at Bell Labs, where he held a broad range of key technical and management positions.
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Jerry Qubain, Vice President, Manufacturing Operations
Jerry Qubain is responsible for the company's manufacturing operations. He oversees quality, reliability, supply chain management, purchasing and external foundry engagements.
Mr. Qubain brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology to eSilicon, where he is responsible for all product, test, process, manufacturing, and process engineering. Prior to joining eSilicon, he served as a Director at Credence Corporation, where he managed sales and operations for all test interface products. Prior to that, Qubain was a principal and General Manager at Dimensions Consulting, where he ramped revenues by over 50% in less than 12 months before negotiating the company's acquisition by Credence.
Previously, as Director of Manufacturing at Adaptec, Qubain managed U.S. manufacturing operations, including wafer sort and final test engineering, with a technical staff of over 100. Before Adaptec, he served as an Engineering Support Manager at LSI Logic, managing package, process and production engineering. Qubain began his career as an Engineering Manager at Best IC Laboratories. He holds a BA in Industrial Design from San Francisco State University.
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Prasad Subramaniam, Ph.D. Vice President, Design Technology
Prasad Subramaniam is responsible for developing the company's technology platforms for IC design.
From 1982 to 1998, he was with Bell Laboratories, where he held a variety of technical and management positions culminating as the Head of Analog and RF CAD. In that role, he was also responsible for modeling and characterizing the semiconductor technologies used by IC designers at Lucent. Dr. Subramaniam joined Cadence Design Systems as VP of R&D in 1998. He has a wide range of experience in ASIC, custom and mixed signal design. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and has published over 40 papers in technical conferences and journals. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Ajay Lalwani, Vice President, Strategic Sourcing
Ajay Lalwani is responsible for expanding and managing eSilicon's global semiconductor supply chain capabilities and strategic alliances with key global supply chain partners.
With over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Mr. Lalwani brings extensive skills to driving business strategy, sales, marketing and organizational development.
Prior to joining eSilicon, he co-founded Cubic Micro Inc., with offices in the Silicon Valley, Japan and Singapore. Mr. Lalwani was vice president of the Application Specific Products Business Unit of Renesas Technology America Inc. Before Renesas, he served as senior director of worldwide business development for Chartered Semiconductor. He also held management positions at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. and Mitsubishi Electronics. Mr. Lalwani received his BSEE and MBA from Santa Clara University.
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