Ewald Liess joined Gennum Corporation last year as Director of Sales for EMEA. He established and successfully managed our sales operations in Europe enabling us to strengthen our customer relationships in both the IP space and product sales. In his current role as General Manager of Snowbush IP, Ewald is responsible for managing all aspects of the Snowbush IP operations including marketing, sales, resource planning, IP roadmap definition, design and application engineering as well as business operations.

Ewald brings nearly 20 years of semiconductor experience, having held management positions at Motorola and Infineon Technologies. Specifically, Ewald has extensive operational experience in managing global application and product engineering teams.

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.

Prior to joining Snowbush IP, Purna Mohanty was the Vice-President of ASIC Architect, and has over 19 years of experience in the electronics industry. Aside from his technical expertise in large scale SoC verification both for networking and storage application, Purna also holds several U.S patents in the area of chip verification. He has over 20 years of experience gained from working for Sony, Adaptec, Phillips and LSI Logic where he held various engineering, sales and marketing positions. Purna graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institure of Technology in Rourkela, India and a Masters of Science degree 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.