Howard Pakosh

Entrepreneur and senior executive, highly experienced in semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and engineering design automation (EDA). Motivated leader with an emphasis on partnerships, and strategic accounts with large, mutual upside. Startup experience includes: * Polyteda (Director) - Cloud-based EDA design tool developer since 2005. * Xentec (Co-founder) - Xentec was the developer of the first USB I/O Subsystem, currently the core IP behind Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) USB offerings, having been acquired in Dec. 2001 * Elliptic Technologies (Investor and BoD member) - Elliptic was a leading developer of security solution for the semiconductor industry. Acquired by Synopsys in June 2015. * InVu Semiconductor (Co-founder) - InVu was an emerging leader in high performance, cost-effective CMOS-based Digital Image Processor solutions for high-volume Camera-based vision (CV) applications. Other companies Mr. Pakosh was affiliated include SONICS, Inc. and Virage Logic (acquired by Synopsys in 2008).