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Advisors
The executive profiles below provide details about our key business advisors.
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Douglas Chu
Douglas Chu has over 10 years of experience as a technology investment banker, having advised technology clients on capital raising and mergers & acquisitions while working at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America. Mr. Chu has specific expertise in technical software, semiconductors and hardware design. Prior to his investment banking career, he was an aerospace engineer at McDonnell Douglas. He has a BS from MIT, an MS from Princeton University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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Ryuichi Hiraide
Chairman and CEO of Gaia System Solutions Inc.
Ryuichi Hiraide is the founder and Chairman and CEO of Gaia System Solutions Inc. Hiraide brings to Gaia over 25 years of management and sales experience in the semiconductor, software, and consumer products fields. Gaia provides "total design solutions" for embedded systems including provision and consultation regarding development environments, process improvement, engineering education, and compliance for functional safety standards.
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Yu "Duke" Hirano
Yu "Duke" Hirano has over 30 years of experience in the areas of semiconductor and technical software in the Japanese market. Over the past several years, he has been serving as a consultant/advisor for several venture backed companies in Japan such as Sierra Design Automation (now Mentor Graphics), ArchPro (now Synopsys), 0-In Design Automation (now Mentor Graphics), Sequence Design Automation, and IP Extreme.
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Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
The Edgar L. and Harold H. Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University Of California at Berkeley
Alberto has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley for more that 30 years. In addition to being an author of more than 800 papers and 15 books in the area of semiconductor and system design methodologies and tools, he has a strong interest in transfering research results to the industrial domain. He helped founding Cadence and Synopsys and is on the Board of Directors of Cadence, Sonics, UPEK and Accent. He is on the Scientific Advisory Council of GM and was a member of the Strategic Technology Advisory Board of HP. In 1996 he founded PARADES, a European Group of Economic Interest funded originally by Cadence, Magneti-Marelli and ST Microelectronics, a research organization located in Rome focusing on automotive electronic design and architecture. He is Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering..
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Richard T. Williams CFA, CMT
Director of Research, Senior Software Analyst and Chief Market Technician
for Summit Analytic Partners
With over 20 years of experience working on Wall Street, Richard now follows enterprise software stocks as a financial analyst, providing insights and analysis to institutional investors around the globe. He was ranked as the top software analysts in 2004, focusing on e-Business applications for software technologies. Williams has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from NYU's Stearn School, as well as holding both the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Market Technician (CMT) professional designations.
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