Albert Yu
Dr. Albert Yu is a retired Intel Senior Vice President. He is a veteran of the semiconductor industry. He joined Intel in 1972 and was the General Manager of the company's microprocessor group for over 16 years. Dr. Yu also led Intel's international expansion activity and was responsible for driving Intel strategy in the optoelectronics area.

John Sanguinetti
Dr. John Sanguinetti, CTO of Forte Design Systems, has worked in computer architecture, performance analysis and design verification for 20 years. After working for Digital Equipment Corporation, Amdahl, ELXSI, Ardent, and NeXT, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was President until 1995. Dr. Sanguinetti was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator. He is a Founder of Forte Design Systems, which focuses on high-level hardware synthesis from SystemC.

Frank Grossman
Frank Grossman is Co-Founder of Mindreef, which develops and markets advanced Web services diagnostic software tools. Mr. Grossman was also a Co-Founder of NuMega Technologies, creators of the award-winning software development and debugging tools SoftICE and BoundsChecker. Compuware Corporation acquired NuMega in 1997. Prior to NuMega, Mr. Grossman was with Wang Laboratories.

Jim Moskun
Jim Moskun, Co-Founder of Mindreef, also co-founded NuMega Technologies. Prior to Mindreef, Mr. Moskun and Mr. Grossman established Technology Garden, a software incubator. Mindreef is Technology Garden's second incubation effort. Mr. Moskun was with Wang Laboratories prior to NuMega.

Dave Evans
Dave Evans, Chairman of Forte Design Systems, has more than 25 years of experience in the EDA field. He joined Forte Design Systems in 2001 as the CEO of Chronology Corporation when the two companies merged. Previously Mr. Evans held executive positions at Cadence Design Systems including Vice President, Operations, General Manager and Vice President, Corporate AE. Before Cadence, he started Hewlett-Packard's EDA business and was later a member of the founding team as Vice President, Marketing at Tangent Systems, which was eventually acquired by Cadence.

Earl Killian
Earl Killian's early work was in the software industry on networking, compilers, operating systems, and binary translation. In the last sixteen years, he has put his system software experience to work in computer architecture, designing instruction-set architectures, pipelines and performance models for microprocessors. As MIPS's Director of Architecture, he designed the MIPS III 64-bit instruction-set extension, and led the work on the R4000 microarchitecture. He was a co-founder of QED, which created the R4600 and R5000 MIPS processors. Most recently he was chief architect at Tensilica working on configurable/extensible processors.

John Robbins
John Robbins is Co-Founder of Wintellect, a highly respected training, debugging and consulting firm with a concentration on .NET and Windows development. Mr. Robbins authored, "Debugging Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows Applications" (Microsoft Press) and contributes the "Bugslayer" column for MSDN Magazine.

Kumar S. Sripadam
Kumar Sripadam is Founder, CEO and VP of Marketing & Business Development of Bluewave Networks. He has 14 years of experience in the telecommunications and data networking industries. Prior to this, Mr. Sripadam was a member of the founding team at Redback Networks, a successful Networking company where he made key contributions to Systems and Hardware.

Mr. Sripadam is on the Technical Advisory Board of RightTag, Job Ranch.com, Heavy Medical Systems, Aujix etc and is also a director on the Board of LaMulti Info Systems. He is a Charter Member of TIE-SV. He holds an MSEE from Southern Illinois University.