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Vic Kulkarni, President and CEO
Vic Kulkarni, President and CEO of Sequence Design Inc.
Vic Kulkarni has worked in the semiconductor and EDA industries for over 29 years. He was appointed president and CEO of Sequence in May 2002. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Operating Officer for more than two years where he set the Company's vision and delivered power, timing and signal integrity products for nanometer systems-on-chip design. Mr. Kulkarni was named "Entrepreneur of the Month" by SiliconIndia magazine in July 2003 and was featured in Reed Electronics' "50 Electronics Companies to Watch" in 2002 and 2003. Prior to joining Sequence, Mr. Kulkarni was General Manager and Vice President of Avant!'s Silicon Business Unit, responsible for Silicon IP and Process Modeling tools. He joined Avant! after the acquisition of Meta-Software where he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. He was instrumental in taking Meta-Software public in November 1995 with a market cap of $160M. Prior to Meta, Mr. Kulkarni held various engineering and marketing positions in VLSI, National and Fairchild. In May 2008, Sequence Design, represented by Mr. Kulkarni, was appointed to the Board of Directors for The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) for the 2008-2009 term. Currently, Mr. Kulkarni is also on the Management Advisory Board of Arteris, an emerging innovative company in Paris involved in network-on-chip designs. He has been a champion of globalization trends in the semiconductor and EDA industry and has appeared on various industry panels on this topic. He was recently conferred the honor of "Distinguished Alumni 2007" by School of Engineering at University of Cincinnati where he received his M.S. E.E. in Solid State Electronics in 1977. Mr. Kulkarni earned his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 1974.
 
Jerry Frenkil, General Manager, Silicon Business Unit, CTO and VP of R&D
Jerry Frenkil, General Manager, Silicon Business Unit, CTO and VP of R&D
Jerry Frenkil was one of the original founders of Sente, Inc., and has over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries. While at Sente, Mr. Frenkil was the Vice President of Low Power Design, where he led the services and applications activities. Prior to co-founding Sente, Mr. Frenkil was an independent consultant focused on IC design. He also held the position of Design Manager for VLSI Technology. Mr. Frenkil holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas. He has published papers on IC and Low Power Design, and holds several patents on circuit design and design automation.
 
Tom Miller, Vice President and Head of R&D, Front-End Products
Tom Miller, General Manager, Logical Business Unit and VP of R&D
Tom Miller has over 22 years experience in the EDA industry. He was one of the original founders of Sente Inc. While at Sente Inc., Mr. Miller was the Vice President of Engineering focusing on IC power estimation products. Prior to his position at Sente, Mr. Miller was the Vice President of Engineering for the System Physical Group at Cadence Design Systems, dealing with the physical design and electrical analysis of printed circuit boards. He also held the position of Vice President of Engineering for the PCB Group at Valid Logic Systems. Mr. Miller holds a BS in both Mathematics and Computer Science, as well as a MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He has published papers on software development techniques and hardware description languages, and holds a patent for RTL power estimation methodologies and techniques.
 
William Ruby, Vice President, Product and Applications Engineering
William Ruby, Vice President, Product and Applications Engineering
William Ruby has over 20 years of experience in the EDA and semiconductor industry and a broad expertise in low power design. He has served in senior engineering and product marketing positions at Cadence, Synopsys, Intel, and Siemens. At Cadence and Synopsys, Mr. Ruby has defined and launched innovative EDA products for low-power and mixed-signal design. At Siemens, he was responsible for ultra-low power digital and analog IC design for medical applications. As a key member of the first Pentium microprocessor team at Intel, Mr. Ruby was awarded a patent in memory design. He holds a B.A. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A from the San Jose State University.
 
Greg Hoffman, Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance and Administration
Greg Hoffman, Vice President of Finance and Administration
Greg Hoffman was promoted to CFO, VP of Finance and Administration of Sequence Design in December 2006. He joined the Company as Controller in October 2006. Mr. Hoffman has over 25 years of financial management experience with both private and public companies. Previously, Mr. Hoffman was Chief Financial Officer of Luminous Networks Inc. He has served in director level positions in companies such as E*Trade, Symantec and Maxtor. Mr. Hoffman holds a MBA in Finance from Golden Gate University and BS in Accounting from San Jose State University. Mr. Hoffman is a member of the alumni Board of Directors and Finance Committee of San Jose State University.
 
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