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Sudarshan Kumar, President
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Sudarshan Kumar has 16+ years
experience in management and technical positions
in Intel. He was involved in 80386®, 80486®, Pentium®
and PentiumII®. Last 5 years he was in management
position in Low Power Design Technology (LPDT) developing
low power solution for dynamic and leakage power
reduction. He chaired company wide Low Power Task
Force and solved power problem in IA64 and
Xscale® processors. He holds 22+ patents in high
speed and low power designs.
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Krishna Uppunda, Director of Engineering
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Krishna Uppunda has 15+ experience
in hardware engineering. Previously he held
positions in 3com and AMD. He has made significant
contributions in the development of several PCI
Ethernet ASIC's. He was member of the PCIX and PCIX-DDR
subcommittee He holds five patents .
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Asim Husain, Director of Device Technology
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Asim Husain holds Ph.D.
in Electrical Eng. from University of Waterloo in
Canada. He was awarded national scholarship for
B.S. and commonwealth scholarship for the Ph.D.
program. He worked in Intel Corp. for 19 years where
he managed process/device simulation, circuit simulation
and interconnect modeling groups as program manager.
He worked in Sematech as manager of interconnect
modeling group where he helped the development of
several parasitic extraction tools including Arcadia,
Quickcap, Raphael, Fastcap and Giper.
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Chandra Mahadev, Software Development
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Chandra Mahadev brings nearly
15 years of software development experience in leading-edge
technology research and product development. He
has held various positions in Sun Micro systems,
Nuco systems,Transcend Access. He has extensive
experience in C, C++, Java and Assembly language.
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Michael Emley, Director Sales & Marketing
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Michael Emley joined Proficient in January 2005 as Director, Sales &
Marketing. From 2003 until Proficient, Mr. Emley was Vice President, Sales
& Marketing of Sycon Design, an IC Physical Design EDA company. From 1997
to 2002 Mr. Emley was employed by Pharsight Corp, a Biotech-Pharma modeling
Software Company, where he was a founding team member, held positions of Sr.
Vice President of Sales & Marketing, and Strategic Consulting Services.
Pharsight went through a successful IPO in 2000 after significant revenue
growth. From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Emley was a founding team member of
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. Viewlogic went IPO in 1991 and became a leader in
EDA before being acquired by Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. At Viewlogic,
Mr. Emley served as Director of Western Area Sales, Vice President of
Worldwide Marketing, and Vice President of Strategic Account Services. Mr.
Emley holds a B.S. in Marketing, Cal State University, Los Angeles, and an
MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Two consultants in EDA Tool Development
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- 15 years in Architecting EDA software tools,
mostly in startups.
- 16 years in Building EDA software tools, primarily
in startups.
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