ABOUT US

Romeo Kharileh
romeo@siart.com

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.

Our office is located close to the Irvine Spectrum Center at the junction of the 405 and the 133.