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 Steven
Schulz –
President and CEO
Since 2002, Steve has served as President and CEO of Si2, the leading worldwide consortium of semiconductor and software companies developing EDA standards and supporting technology. Under Steve's leadership, membership has increased 400%, and output of collaborative technology has expanded in both frequency and scope to better serve a rapidly changing industry.
Steve was previously VP, Corporate Marketing for BOPS Inc. and a veteran of Texas Instruments. At TI, he was Senior Member,Technical Staff and manager of EDA strategy and reliability strategy. Steve was chair of the Design Sciences Technical Advisory Board at Semiconductor Research Corporation, co-chair of Accellera, President of VHDL International, and chair of VITAL and Rosetta standards. He has authored over 200 articles on EDA and design methodology, was a founding editor of ASIC & EDA and Integrated System Design magazines, and currently authors a weekly blog for Chip Design magazine. Steve also serves on the Boards of emerging technology startups.
Steve received his BSEE from U. Maryland, and an MBA from U. Texas. He is an active jazz trombone musician in the Austin area.
 Sumit
DasGupta – Sr. Vice President of Engineering
Sumit DasGupta joined Si2 in 2002 as Vice President of Technology. As
Vice President of Technology, he is responsible for Si2 engineering and
service projects, with a special emphasis on OpenAccess. DasGupta comes
to Si2 from Motorola, where he served as director of SoC and IP design
systems in the semiconductor products sector. While at Motorola,
DasGupta served on the Si2 Board of Directors and the Design Technology
Council. Prior to Motorola, he worked at IBM in several management and
technical positions. DasGupta holds a Ph.D. in computer science from
Syracuse University and a master's degree in electrical engineering
from Marquette University. He has eight patents and 20 publications to
his name. He is a senior member of IEEE, having served in several IEEE
leadership roles in the past, including editor-in-chief of IEEE Design
and Test Magazine, steering committee chair for the IEEE Transactions
on VLSI Systems, general chair and program chair of the International
Conference on Computer Design and chair of the IEEE Computer Society
Design Automation Technical Committee.
 Nick
English - Vice President of Development
As an experienced senior manager, Nick English is known for managing
both business and technical processes that affect electronic design. He
has over 25 years of high-technology industry experience in both
engineering and management roles. He has previously served as the
chair and the key driver of the OpenKit Initiative within Accellera to
create standards for the semiconductor industry’s process design kits.
Over the last twenty years Nick has held senior management positions in
semiconductor, EDA, and software companies. As an engineer he
worked in the areas of statistical device modeling at the transistor
level. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of South
Florida.
Jake
Buurma – VP, West Coast Operations
Jake Buurma, 57, currently serves as VP of West Coast Operations for
the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2). Mr. Buurma has more than 33
years of industry experience equally split between the design of
integrated circuits at major semiconductor companies such as National
Semiconductor and Toshiba Semiconductor and developing EDA software at
companies such as Cadence Design Systems, Silicon Navigator and Aprio.
Jake has worked extensively with global development teams in automated
physical design, EDA software development and improving Design for
Manufacturability (DFM) at sub-100nm process nodes.
Jake has participated on
several industry initiatives and has been an invited speaker at several
Gary Hamel seminars on the topic of Innovation and Corporate Renewal.
Mr. Buurma was a founding board member of the Virtual Socket Interface
Alliance (VSIA) and he was the General Chairman of the Custom
Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC). He has authored over 100 papers
in technical conferences and engineering journals, he was a
contributing author in the book Talking Chips, and the recipient of
three patents in Analog and Digital Circuit Design.
Mr. Buurma received his M.S.E.E. degree from Santa Clara University and
graduated cum laude with a global MBA from Duke University
Bob Carver – VP, Business Development
Bob Carver serves as VP of Business Development for Si2. Mr Carver has more than 25 years
experience in the Electronic Design Automation Industry. Mr Carver was an early member of SDA
which later merged with ECAD to become Cadence Design Systems. Bob has experience in EDA
product development, product marketing and design services. While at Cadence Bob developed the
SKILL programming language and much of the early Database system that would later evolve into
OpenAccess. In marketing Bob launched the Design Framework product line, became Cadence's
liaison to MCC in Austin Texas, help found CFI, the precursor to Si2, and later help start Spectrum
Services. Bob has been working with Si2 since 2003 and has been instrumental in the launch of all of
Si2 coalitions. Mr. Carver received his B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin.
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