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Ciranova Board of Directors

• Jim Solomon - Founder, Cadence Design Systems
• Dan Rubin - General Partner, Alloy Ventures
• Eric Filseth - Ciranova™ CEO
• Ed Petrus - Ciranova COO & Vice President of Engineering

James E. Solomon
Founder Cadence Design Systems, Founder/CEO Xulu, Founder/Chairman Smart Machines

Jim is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in the semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industries. Solomon is a Fellow of the IEEE, holds 23 patents in IC design, and is the author of over 50 technical papers. His best known work on design theory for the monolithic op amp is still taught in universities. In 1997 he was the recipient of the EDAC Phil Kaufman Award for his contributions to design automation.

In 1995, he co-founded Xulu Entertainment where he served as President and CEO. In 1994, Solomon co-founded and became Chairman of Smart Machines, Inc., which designs and manufacturers high performance direct-drive robotics used to manufacture semiconductor wafers. Smart Machines was acquired by Brooks Automation in 1999, and the Smart robots are now widely used in modern wafer fab facilities.

In 1983, he founded Solomon Design Automation (SDA Systems), later renamed Cadence Design Systems. Over 12 years he held various roles including President and CEO, founder & General Manager of the Analog & Mixed Signal unit, General Manager of the IC unit, and Chief Technical Officer for the company. Today Cadence is the largest electronic design automation company in the world with annual revenues over $1 billion. From 1970 until 1983, he was Director of IC Design for Analog and Mixed Signal chips at National Semiconductor. Starting in 1960, he worked for Motorola, eventually starting and running Linear IC Design at Motorola Semiconductor in Tempe, Arizona. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of California, Berkeley CA. Jim serves on the boards of Ciranova, Silicon Navigator, AWR, Pyxis, and Nascentric.

Dan Rubin - Partner, Alloy Ventures (Chairman of the Board)
Founder/Vice President Artisan Components

Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999. He received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982). In 1991 he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and the initial VP of Sales and Marketing. He was the VP of Business Development through their initial public offering in 1998. Prior to Artisan Components Mr. Rubin worked at Ultratech Stepper in many roles including Director of Product Marketing and Managing Director of Asian Operations. Dan is a director of Ciranova, Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Nexsil and Gradient, and a board observer at Ellie Mae and Integrated Materials, Inc.

Eric Filseth - Ciranova CEO

Eric has 23 years experience in the EDA and semiconductor industry, spanning both analog and digital design. Prior to joining Ciranova in 2007, he served as marketing vice president for digital implementation products at Cadence Design Systems, including logic synthesis, formal verification, place-and-route, and DFM. Before that he held executive marketing and business development positions at Silicon Perspective Corporation and Sente, Inc. Previously Eric spent ten years marketing analog, RF and mixed-signal products at Cadence. He started his career in 1983 as an amplifier design engineer with National Semiconductor. He received an MBA from UCLA and a BSEE from Stanford University.

Ed Petrus - Ciranova COO & VP of Engineering

Ed joined Ciranova in the summer of 2004 bringing with him 20 years of experience in building engineering teams and developing complex software systems. Ed spent 10 years at Cadence Design Systems where he was a key architect and developer of SKILL® and other components of Cadence's DFII technology. Before Cadence, Ed started his career in EDA as a software engineer at Daisy Systems. Ed has also held engineering management positions at Military Advantage and Nanomix. Ed holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.