Thomas F. Blaesi
President & Chief Executive Officer
Thomas F. Blaesi joined ChipVision as president and CEO in December
2006, with overall responsibility for leading the company and its
business growth worldwide. He has more than 20 years of experience in
business development, strategic marketing, product marketing and
engineering management in electronic design automation and
semiconductors,in companies in Europe and Silicon Valley. Prior to
ChipVision, Thomas served as vice president of marketing and worldwide
business development at SIGMA-C until its acquisition by Synopsys. Mr.
Blaesi has held senior marketing positions at two startups, Pact XPP
Technologies and Silicon Design Systems. Prior to those positions, he
was director of business development and director of system-chip design
services for Cadence Design Systems. Earlier in his career, he also
served as group product-marketing manager/physical design for Synopsys.
In 1991, he joined LSI Logic as product marketing manager/design
methodology and tools, in Munich. He moved to Silicon Valley in 1994,
when LSI Logic named him product marketing manager/ASIC design
methodology. Mr. Blaesi began his career as an application engineer for
Valid Logic Systems of Munich. He holds a degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen,
Germany.
Wolfgang Nebel
Chief Technology Advisor
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang H. Nebel, world-renowned technologist and
academician, is co-founder, chairman and chief technology advisor of
ChipVision. Since June 2005 he also has served as chairman of The
Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Information Technology
Tools and Systems, known as OFFIS - an independent international
research institute associated with the University of Oldenburg,
Germany. Previously, he served as full university professor for VLSI
design in the Computer Science Department of the University of
Oldenburg and, for two years, Dean, before becoming vice-president of
the university. Dr. Nebel began his technical career as a software
engineer at Philips Semiconductors, Hamburg, and later became CAD
project manager and CAD software development manager. He was program
chair of EURO-VHDL 94 and 95, EURO-DAC 96, PATMOS 96, DATE 2001,
general chair of PATMOS 95 and general co-chair of ISLPED 2006. He is
active in several additional program committees and professional
organizations including ACM, ECSI, EDAA, GI, IEEE, IFIP WG 10.5, VDE.
Wolfgang Nebel holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from
Hanover University, Germany, and a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Computer
Science Department of Kaiserslautern University.
Craig Cochran
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Craig Cochran joined ChipVision as
vice president of marketing and business development in July 2008, and
is responsible for marketing the company’s solutions globally and
developing the market for system-level power optimization. Prior to
ChipVision, Cochran was vice president of marketing and business
development at Jasper Design Automation., a design verification
solutions company in Mountain View, Calif., where he focused on
developing the market for high-level formal verification, garnering
high industry visibility and market acceptance for the company.
Previously during 14 years at Synopsys, Inc. in Mountain View, Calif.,
he held a variety of management positions including director of
strategic marketing for the Galaxy Design Platform, director of
Corporate Marketing, and group and product line manager for multiple
groups. Earlier he was an applications engineer at Valid Logic Systems
in San Jose, Calif. He began his career as a digital design engineer at
General Electric, Inc. Cochran holds a bachelor of science degree cum
laude in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology, and business credentials from the Stanford Graduate School
of Business and the American Management Association, among others.
Dr.-Ing. Lars Kruse
Vice President of Engineering
Dr.-Ing. Lars Kruse, patent-holding technologist, serves as vice
president engineering at ChipVision and is responsible for driving the
technology development of the company’s low power design optimization
EDA solutions. Previously, Dr. Kruse was a member of the research and
development department at Magma Design Automation, where he also
managed product development of the company’s power grid verification
and design tools. Earlier, he served as a consultant on hardware and
embedded software design. He began his career at the OFFIS Institute
for Information Technology, a research and development organization
that works closely with the University of Oldenburg, Germany, where he
managed the low-power group and inspired the founding of ChipVision.
Author of several articles published by the IEEE, Dr. Kruse also has
presented numerous papers at conferences including ISSS, PATMOS, DATE,
ISLPED, and ICCAD. He holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in technical
computer science from the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Christiane
Strunk-Stueckemann is ChipVision's vice president of finance and
administration, and is responsible for all financial, human resources
and administrative functions of the company. She joined ChipVision in
2003 and has served as controller as well as Oldenburg site manager.
Christiane received her Diploma in Economics at the Private University
of Applied Science Pinneberg, Germany.