About
Tom Sandoval, CEO
Mr. Sandoval has a proven track record of more than 20 years of sales, marketing and engineering management experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Calypto, Mr. Sandoval was at LSI Logic where he directed LSI’s worldwide application-specific IC (ASIC) engineering organization. Sandoval also served as LSI Logic’s vice president and general manager of communications products, where he was responsible for the strategic marketing, definition and development of its communications products, including intellectual property (IP) cores, standard products and its structured ASIC product. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California.
Doug Aitelli, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Doug is an EDA veteran with more than 20 years of experience in sales, sales management and strategic account development. Prior to Calypto, he was the director of Global Accounts for Magma Design Automation Inc. Before Magma Doug held various sales and sales management roles at Synopsys, Quickturn, Racal-Redac, and HHB Systems. Doug received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, College of Engineering.
Gagan Hasteer, Sr. Vice President of Engineering and Founder
Gagan co-founded Calypto after making substantial technical contributions to two successful EDA startups. Before co-founding Calypto, Gagan was the Director of Engineering at Innologic Systems, a start-up in the formal verification arena. At Innologic, Gagan successfully managed the development of the company’s multi-million dollar flagship product from initial concept to adoption by more than 30 customers before the company's purchase by Synopsys, Inc. Prior to joining Innologic, Gagan was an early member of the Ambit Design Systems engineering team, where he made substantial contributions to the BuildGates synthesis product. Before Ambit, he was a consultant with the Formal Verification group of the MIPS division of SGI. Gagan received an M.S and PhD in Computer Science specializing in Formal Verification of Hardware designs from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has B.S in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, India.
Sumit Roy, Vice President of Engineering, Power Products and Founder
Sumit brings in extensive experience in low power design and optimization. Prior to Calypto, he was the architect of the low power synthesis and optimization group at Cadence, where he led technology development and productization. Prior to Cadence, Sumit was an early member of the Ambit Design Systems engineering team, where he led some of the patented breakthroughs in the Ambit synthesis technology as well as low power solution which he developed from its inception. Sumit holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India. He holds an MS and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Venkat Krishnaswamy, Vice President Applications Engineering & Services and Founder
Venkat brings significant VLSI design and methodology experience to Calypto. Prior to Calypto he held senior design, test and architecture positions at Sun where he worked on the UltraSparc T1 processor. Prior to joining Sun, he was a member of the Pentium4 design team at Intel where he held DFT, methodology and tool development positions. Venkat holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India.
Anmol Mathur, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Anmol has extensive experience and expertise in the areas of formal verification, logic synthesis and arithmetic optimization techniques. Prior to Calypto, he was the architect of the datapath synthesis and optimization group at Ambit Design Systems and Cadence, where he led technology development and productization. Prior to Ambit, Anmol was part of an award-winning team at the MIPS division of SGI that developed and successfully deployed an RTL to gate-level equivalence checker and property checker within the MIPS microprocessor division. Anmol holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India where he was awarded a gold medal for highest academic achievement by the institute. He holds an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a University of Illinois fellow. Anmol holds multiple patents and has published several papers in the areas of formal verification, logic synthesis and arithmetic optimization techniques.
Sanjiv Narayan, Vice President & Managing Director, Calypto Design Systems India Private Limited
Sanjiv brings a strong track record of management and technical leadership to Calypto. Prior to Calypto, Sanjiv was a senior architect at Cadence Design Systems, where he was responsible for managing the technology direction, customer interaction, as well as managing the product development and the validation teams for the BuildGates synthesis product. Sanjiv has previously worked in Ambit Design Systems and Viewlogic Systems where he architected system design and synthesis related products. Sanjiv received a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India. As a Chancellor's Fellow, he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-author of the book "Specification & Design of Embedded Systems". He has served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
Eiki Suzuki, President, Calypto Design Systems, K.K.
Mr. Suzuki has a long track record of successfully representing and leading EDA companies in the Japanese market. Prior to joining Calypto, he served as executive advisor, leading the Japanese business for Cadence and Get2Chip, Inc. He was a founder, CEO and executive advisor for the SC Hightech Corporation, and at Sumisho Electron Devices. During this time, he built the Japanese presence of multiple EDA companies including: Ambit, Chrysalis, Gateway, Magma, Simplex, and Synopsys. He has also served in senior management positions within the Sumitomo Corporation in both Japan and the United States.