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		AJ Sen President and Chief Executive Officer AJ joined Envis in October 2008. He brings 18 years of semiconductor and systems experience to Envis, along with early-stage startup experience as founder of three companies. Most recently, Sen was CEO of mSilica Incorporated, a supplier of power management ICs for LED lighting in portable electronic devices. In addition to founding eSilicon Corporation, a fabless ASIC vendor, he was CEO/president and founder of Astro Semiconductor, a low-power analog IC design company, and PulseCore Semiconductor, a supplier of mixed-signal ICs to reduce system EMI. He started his engineering career at Zilog and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSEE from California State University, Chico.

		Hamid Savoj Chief Technology Officer and VP of engineering Hamid joined Envis in September 2006 as Chief Technology Officer and VP of engineering. Previously, Hamid co-founded Magma Design Automation in 1997 (IPO in 2001), where he most recently served as Senior VP of product development. From 1994 to 1997, Hamid was a senior member of the consulting staff at Cadence. Hamid holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BSEE from California Institute of Technology.

		John Beck CFO John Beck brings over 30 years of experience in financial management, strategic planning and execution for technology firms. For the past 5 years, John has been the acting CFO for many venture-backed early stage companies in life sciences, fabless semiconductor, software, hardware systems, and services. John has served as General Manager and CFO consultant with The Brenner Group, and as CFO for Silicon Bandwidth, nDSP (including a successful M&A with Pixelworks), Sigma Designs, Augeo Software, Meta-Software, Sellectek, RayLAN, Optimem and Spectra Logic subsidiaries of Cipher Data Products, and Minton Company. Previously, John held senior audit positions at Ernst & Young and KPMG Peat Marwick certified public accounting firms. He is a licensed California C.P.A. with a B.S. degree (cum laude) in Commerce with Accounting emphasis, from Santa Clara University.

		Roger Carpenter Vice President of Design & Services Roger Carpenter has served roles as both a designer and methodology developer within the semiconductor industry. As CTO of Javelin, he focused on architectural exploration of stacked silicon to increase memory bandwidth and dramatically reduce power. As Director of Ethernet Switching at Broadcom, he managed mixed signal implementation and chip integration across multiple design groups. He joined Magma in 1998 as one of the first 20 employees to become Director of Design Services and then Vice President of Strategic Technology where he enabled automation of MTCMOS power gating with physical hierarchy. He managed microprocessor design at Chromatic Research starting in 1994. He eliminated Vt drop by embedding a charge pump at Xilinx starting in 1991. Holder of 10 filed or issued patents, Carpenter received a Bachelors and Masters of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1989.

Technical Advisory Board

		Dr. Robert K. Brayton Dr. Robert K. Brayton, Cadence Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and recipient of the 2007 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), is an industry pioneer and one of the world's authorities in logic synthesis and formal verification. Dr. Brayton's seminal contributions to logic synthesis have been critical to the design of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and the development of CAD products that use logic synthesis software. Additionally, he co-developed the Sparse Tableau Approach and the Backward Differentiation Formulas. Their implementation as early Circuit Simulation software influenced SPICE, HSPICE™ and Spectre®. From 1961-1987, Dr. Brayton was employed with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he and his colleagues worked on the Yorktown Silicon Compiler that led to combining synthesis and place and route techniques.

		Dr. Massoud Pedram Dr. Massoud Pedram is a professor and Chair of the Computer Engineering division of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research has received a number of awards including two Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Computer Design, two Design Automation Conference Best Paper Awards, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and written four books on various aspects of low power design. Dr. Pedram is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (a.k.a. the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award) (1996).