Solido Design Automation Announces Board of Directors.SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Solido Design Automation today announced the formation of its Board of Directors. The board includes notables from information technology, semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. Solido Design pioneers transistor-level design enhancements solutions for analog/mixed-signal design, as well as custom digital and memory design, for the EDA market. Jim Rutt was formerly CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Network Solutions Inc., (acquired by VeriSign Inc., NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ) which administered domain name spaces on the Internet. He co-founded Business Research Corp., which developed online information products for the investment community. Rutt also was the co-founder of First Call and has served as CEO of Thomson Technology Services Group; and CTO of the Thomson Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : TOC) as well as, Chief Strategy Officer of VeriSign, Inc. Rutt received his bachelor's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and is a vice chairman of the Santa Fe Institute The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study of complex systems in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Overview The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb . He was also a researcher in residence at the institute, where he studied the application of complexity science to financial markets, social simulations and artificial intelligence. Rutt is also an investor in Solido Design - see (Solido Design Automation Announces Private Investment by Technology Heavyweights), announced today. Board member Larry Lam is Director, Technology Seed Investments at BDC working in the early stage technology investing group of BDC Venture Capital. Prior to joining BDC, he held senior marketing and R&D management positions in several early stage companies including Intelligent Photonics Control, SiCon Video, Symagery Microsystems and Semiconductor Insights. Lam currently sits on the boards of six technology companies. He holds an MBA from Queen's University and a Bachelor in Applied Sciences (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957. . Board member Matthew Raggett, a veteran of the electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor industries, is a managing partner of ADAUS Ventures Inc. He has served as president and CEO of Analog Design Automation, which was acquired by Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ) in 2004. As part of the management team that led Phoenix Technologies through a successful IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. (INSN) and later spun inSilicon, Corp. out of Phoenix Technologies. At inSilicon, which was also acquired by Synopsys, he held the position of vice president of worldwide field operations. Raggett has held management positions at Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and ITT Telecommunications. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of several EDA companies including Javelin Design Automation, Inc., Logic Vision (NASDAQ:LGVN) and Solido Design. Raggett holds a higher technical certificate in Electronic Engineering (BSEE) from Brighton Technical College, England. "We are very pleased by the enthusiasm this broad range of industry experts has in our company management and technology roadmap," said Solido Design's CEO, Amit Gupta. "Solido Design will benefit from their vast business and technology acumen." About Solido Design Automation Solido Design Automation Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) company pioneering transistor-level design enhancement solutions for analog/mixed-signal design, as well as custom digital and memory design. Founded by the same entrepreneurs who created Analog Design Automation, the company is privately held and headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. For further information, visit www.solidodesign.com or call 306-382-4100. |
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