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Management Team
Rahm Shastry, President and CEO
Dr. John Croix, Founder and CTO
Dr. Ramon Acosta, Vice President of Engineering
Scott Jacobson, VP Applications and Business
Development
Brenda Wallace, Controller and CFO
Rahm Shastry, President and CEO
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Rahm comes to
Nascentric with an established executive-level track record at several
startups as well as leading EDA companies. Prior to joining Nascentric,
Rahm served as the president & CEO of Santa Clara, CA based Tharas
Systems, a hardware-assisted verification company which was acquired by
EVE, Inc in 2006. At Cadence Design Systems he held marketing positions
of increasing responsibility, rising to the position of Group Director
for Logic Design & Verification. At Viewlogic Systems, he held
various technical marketing, applications and sales positions. He was a
co-founder and CEO of TriQuest Design Automation, a behavioral
synthesis startup. Rahm has an extensive background in VLSI and
computer systems design and verification. He started his career as an
IC designer and hardware designer. He holds a MSEE from State
University of New York, Stony Brook and a B.Tech in Electronics &
Communications from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
(India).
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Dr. John Croix, Founder and CTO
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John brings
over 20 years of transistor-level analysis and timing estimation
experience to Nascentric. As Chief Technical Officer (CTO), John
leverages his experience in the design and implementation of advanced
IC analysis and modeling solutions for nanometer-level design. Prior to
Nascentric, he was CTO and co-founder of Silicon Metrics, a provider of
characterization and modeling solutions for timing, power and signal
integrity. At AMD, he was responsible for early timing estimation
tools. A member of IBM's PowerPC design team he was responsible for
development of characterization tools. At Texas Instruments he was
actively involved in CAD tool development. John holds over fifteen
patents and patent applications in the area of IC timing analysis. He
has a BS from the University of Louisville, an MS in computer science
from Southern Methodist University and Ph.D. from The University of
Texas in Austin for his work in cell and interconnect timing analysis.
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Dr. Ramon Acosta, VP of Engineering
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Ramon has 20
years of software development experience in the delivery
state-of-the-art analysis solutions. As Vice-President of Engineering
Ramon guides the definition of the product architecture needed to
leverage current and future nanometer design challenges. Prior to
joining Nascentric, Ramon was the Chief Technology Officer at Fabric
Networks, playing a key role in the definition and development of an
InfiniBand network solution where performance was one of the many
success criteria. Ramon has held various management, engineering and
research positions at companies such as Pervasive Software, Scientific
and Engineering Software (SES) and MCC. Ramon has over twenty-five
publications in the area of software and computer architecture. He
holds a BS and MS degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has an MS and PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Cornell University under the auspices of a Cooperative
Research Fellowship from AT&T Bell Labs.
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Scott Jacobson - VP Applications
and Business Development
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Scott Jacobson
is an 20 year technology industry veteran who joined as Vice President
of Business Development in July 2007. In his prior role, he was the
Vice President – Implementation Services at rfXcel. Prior to rfXcel, he
served as the Director of the Library Services Business Unit at
Synopsys, Inc. where he managed an international 80 person
organization. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Applications
Engineering at Sequence Design, Inc. where he managed an international
team of application support specialists. He also served as a Director
in the Strategic Market Business group at Zland Corp, an Enterprise
Software provider for SMBs. Scott started his career as a hardware
design engineer with Boeing Aerospace Company and he holds a BSEE from
Washington State University.
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Brenda
Wallace - Controller and CFO
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Brenda,
serving through vcfo, brings more than 15 years of experience in the
software, healthcare and semiconductor industries. Brenda has served in
the capacity of controller at Metrowerks/Freescale Semiconductor,
Spinal Concepts, Inc. and Lombardi Software, Inc., responsible for all
accounting, financing and operational functions associated with the
position. In addition, she assisted in the $25M intellectual property
sale of Metrowerks Symbian Tools to Nokia, played a key role in the
$170M acquisition of Spinal Concepts by Abbott Laboratories and she was
instrumental in the acquisition of $20M in venture capital from Goldman
Sachs and Austin Ventures at Lombardi Software, Inc. Brenda received
her BBA and MBA in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas
at Austin.
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