Romeo Kharileh is the Silicon Artist
founder and executive responsible for IC design and manufacturing
technology, engineering and logistics. He has over 18 years of experience
in engineering, sales and marketing leadership at established companies
such as Honeywell, Bull, QuickTurn Systems, Cadence Design Systems,
Chrysalis and Valence Semiconductor, as well as other pioneering
start-up companies in our industry. Romeo's expertise includes complex
IC, software, and CAD tool development, and successfully bringing
EDA, IC and electronic systems to market. Most recently, Romeo was
Vice President of Technology at Valence Semiconductor, where he
led the development of Complex Mixed Signal System on Chip designs,
flows and methodologies. Romeo has been granted two US and International
patents. In addition to the above, Romeo sits on the technical advisory
boards of several fabless semiconductor start-up companies.
Bill McNamara is Silicon Artist's
Vice President of Sales and Business Development, and is ultimately
responsible for client and partner satisfaction. Bill began his
professional career in minicomputer CPU and communications controller
design at MAI Basic Four, leaving design engineering for semiconductor
applications engineering (PLDs & FPGAs), then sales (AMD) and later
catalog IC and ASIC sales management (Fujitsu Microelectronics and
Vitesse Semiconductor). More recently Bill has provided sales expertise
to EDA firms including Zycad and their Protocol IC Services Division,
later as VP of Sales and Marketing at YXI and then with two of Southern
California's largest surviving IC design services firms. During
his career, Bill has contributed to many semiconductor start-ups
and IDMs, while authoring papers (including EDA work cited by others),
presenting at industry conferences, guest lecturing university Electrical
Engineering students and hosting numerous IC design and product
seminars.
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