Alan Tsun joined Gennum Snowbush in 2010 as the Director of Integrated Solutions, bringing an extensive background in semiconductor/IP/SoC products and technology. As General Manager, Alan now leads Gennum Snowbush in the development of industry-leading high-speed IP for PCI-Express, SATA/SAS and Ethernet in some of the most advanced process nodes including 28nm. Prior to joining Snowbush IP, he worked in the semiconductor industry for nearly 20 years, most recently as Vice President, Advanced Solutions Development & Canadian Operations at QuickLogic, a manufacturer of Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSP) for the mobile market. Prior to that, he held a variety of engineering and management positions at V3 Semiconductor, a provider of embedded solutions, prior to its acquisition by QuickLogic.

Alan received a bachelor's degree in Electronic Information System Engineering from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and completed the Ivey Executive Program at the Richard Ivey School of Business in the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Gary Ruggles has over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry and 11 years of it was spent leading the development, sales and marketing of high-speed SerDes IP. Prior to joining Snowbush IP, he served as Director of Marketing/Business Development and Worldwide Sales for PHY products at ARM. He also held the position of Business and Program Manager at Cadence Design Systems, managing their first CMOS-based gigabit Ethernet SerDes design. Gary began his career as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

Kishore Mishra most recently held the position of President & CEO of ASIC Architect, and has over 20 years experience in the electronics industry working for Intel and Texas Instruments. A recognized expert in ASIC/SoC architecture, micro-architecture, design, PCI Express, networking, storage, and power management, Kishore has published technical papers and holds several U.S. patents in computer engineering. In his current role at Snowbush IP, he leads the engineering team on current and future digital IP products that are targeted to provide the best-in-class solutions to our customers. Kishore holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering gained from the National Institute of Technology, in Rourkela, India and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Toledo, Ohio.

Kevin Walsh is a senior marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience in IP and EDA. He has an extensive background marketing IP, including strategic and tactical planning, mergers and acquisitions, setting up distribution channels and joint marketing partnerships. Kevin served as Vice President of Marketing at inSilicon and Arasan Chip Systems, and at Synopsys, as Director of Marketing. He worked recently as Vice President of Marketing at Fresco Logic, Inc. He was Executive Vice President and a founder at Sapphire Design Automation, now Sequence Design. He was also Vice President of Marketing at Simplex Solutions. He has degrees from the University of California Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where he received a Bachelors of Science and from Pepperdine University where he received his Masters of Business Administration.

Saman Sadr has more than 8 years of industry experience in analog IC design for various analog front-end circuits and their sub-blocks including Read Channels, Serializer and De-serializer circuits, PLLs, clock and data recovery circuits, and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. He is currently leading the analog design team at Snowbush IP. Saman received his degrees from Sharif University of Technology in Iran in Electrical Engineering and University of Toronto in Canada in RF circuit design.

Niraj Mathur is responsible for the Digital Design, Program Management and Application Engineering functional areas at Snowbush IP. Niraj has over 12 years of industry experience in advanced SOC design, verification, software, and management of cross functional Engineering groups. Prior to joining Snowbush IP, Niraj managed chip design teams at startup Quake Technologies where he developed one of the world's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices. As a result of its tremendous product successes, Quake was acquired by AppliedMicro in 2007. Niraj has also developed complex silicon for core Internet switch and metropolitan optical network products at Nortel Networks (now Ericsson). Niraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University and an MBA from Cornell University.