Greg
Fairbank,
President and CEO
Mr. Fairbank comes to Saratoga Data with an extensive background
in enterprise software development and sales at high-growth technology
companies. In his most recent role, Mr. Fairbank developed Endeca
Technologies' rapidly growing government practice, successfully
selling enterprise software to US civilian, military and intelligence
agencies. As a software development manager at Sapient Corporation,
Mr. Fairbank managed Sapient's first off-shore software development
effort and delivered online banking and commerce applications
to Fortune 500 clients. As a United States Army officer, Mr. Fairbank
was last assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During his
tenure with the Joint Chiefs, Mr. Fairbank represented his unit
to the US Congress and provided briefings to the senior leadership
of the Department State and Defense.
Mr. Fairbank holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from
Harvard Business School.
Laurence
Brevard ,
Director of Engineering
Laurence Brevard joins Saratoga Data with over 30 years of
technical leadership experience in software development, systems
engineering and integration at leading electronics and EDA companies
and research consortiums.
Mr.
Brevard's software engineering experience includes technical design,
development and management of technical and system software, instruction
sets, hardware description languages, and programming interfaces.
Having worked previously in R&D for Texas Instruments, MCC,
CFI, Motorola, Cadence, and Synopsys, Mr. Brevard most recently
developed software at Synopsys for a new product while also managing
a key alliance program providing design database access interfaces
to dozens of partner companies.
Mr.
Brevard holds Bachelors and Master of Electrical Engineering degrees
from Rice University.
Robert
Cousins,
Chief Technical Officer
Mr. Cousins has over 25 years of executive-level experience
with technology companies. In 1990, he invented the Network Appliance.
Earlier, as CTO of AIM Technology, he architected the AIM Benchmarks,
which spawned over 40 books and over $50 Billion in computer purchases.
While at AIM, he also architected Sun's Solstice SyMON distributed
systems monitoring tool. Prior to AIM, Mr. Cousins was responsible
for Data General's AViiON line of UNIX workstations. AviiON was
20% faster, $1000 cheaper and available months prior to the SUN
SparcStation I. Before Data General, Mr. Cousins founded CSI,
a computer manufacturer specializing in multiprocessor, network-based
computers.
Richard
Fairbank,
Chief Software Architect
Mr. Fairbank has co-founded three companies for which the
primary competitive product differentiation was the efficient
management of massive data volumes. Most recently, Mr. Fairbank
was a co-founder of Pinebush Technologies, the provider of the
current semiconductor industry standard IC design printing product
– HyperPlot. Prior to Pinebush, Mr. Fairbank co-founded Phoenix
Data Systems, the developer of the first semiconductor industry
standard physical verification and manufacturing preparation software
– Maskap. Experience and product requirements of these company’s
products led to the formation of Saratoga Data Systems.
Mr. Fairbank holds a BS Mathematics and an MBA, both from the
State University of New York at Albany.
Arnold Goldfein,
Founder
Before joining Saratoga Data Systems, Mr. Goldfein held a
number of software architecture and development management roles
at some of the most prominent IC and EDA companies in the world.
Prior to joining Saratoga Data, Mr. Goldfein was most recently
a Project Manager at Actel and previously at Cadence Design Systems
where he was also a software Architect. Prior to Cadence
Design Systems Mr. Goldfein was VP, Engineering at Phoenix Data
Systems where he was responsible for the development and support
of the EDA industry’s first verification tools. Before
Phoenix Data Systems, Mr. Goldfein was Director of Microcomputer
CAD at Intel where he oversaw the acquisition, implementation
and support of tools used in the development of microprocessors.
Mr. Goldfein holds a BA degree from Columbia, a MBA from
Syracuse University and a “ABD” CS from Syracuse.
Mr. Goldfein was Co-Chairman, SIA EDA Roadmap Taskforce,
1997-1999 and Past Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee
on Design Automation Program Committee Member, IEEE Design Automation
Conference for six years.
David
Gariepy,
Founder, Director
David Gariepy has been involved with the development of EDA
products for more than twenty years, serving in engineering and
engineering management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
and Intel Corporation.
Mr. Gariepy's EDA engineering experience includes physical verification,
parasitic extraction, resolution enhancement, floor planning,
circuit simulation, graphical design capture, and design database. At
Cadence, Mr. Gariepy was a development manager responsible for
more than 100 development staff located around the world.
Mr. Gariepy holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa
Clara University and a BS degree in Computer Science from Michigan
State University.
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