Management/Technical Team
Dr. Rahul Razdan, Chairman, Chief Technical Advisor and Co-founder
Dr. Rahul Razdan is a seasoned scientist and business executive who has had significant roles in the world of academia, startups, and fortune 500 companies. In corporate roles, he was the Sr Vice President of Strategy for Flextronics (FLEX), General Manager of the System and Functional Verification Business at Cadence Design Systems(CDNS), and Alpha CPU architect at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). He has successfully built successful startups in areas such wireless power, machine learning, and low-power electronics design. In academia, beyond a large range of worldwide collaborations, he maintains academic appointments at the University of Florida, Florida Polytechnic University, and Institute for Human Machine Cognition. Today, he is CEO of Raztech Research Institute (razinstitute.com), a technology based research institute which incubates ideas in the intersection of technology and society. Active projects for the institute include avvc.net in the area of autonomous vehicles, nextgenedu.net in the area of STEM education, and Anew-da.com in the area of EDA for long life cycle products. He has a BS (1984) and MS (1985) from CMU and Phd from Harvard University (1994)."
Faiq Fazal, VP Engineering
Faiq has 35+ years of hands-on software development, engineering management and product delivery experience spanning many areas including storage systems, electronics design automation, enterprise systems and telecommunications. Over the years Faiq has led cross-functional and cross-geographical teams on many large projects. His management style is focussed on business goals and results, maintaining a positive and optimistic outlook, quickly adapting to changes and leading by example. Faiq has also practised various software development models such as AGILE, SCRUM, Waterfall, etc on several products. Over the years Faiq has led software development within many companies including Honeywell, ATT Bell Labs, Protocol (a division of Zycad), Cadence Design Systems, Knowlent and most recently at Dell-EMC. His experience in EDA includes functional simulation and hazard analysis as applied to both ASIC and system design, hardware acceleration of functional and fault simulation and analog design verification tools. Faiq has a strong interest and experience in AI/ML technology which is much required for the AI/ML based products at Anew Design Automation. Faiq has a B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and a Masters in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Faiq loves spending time fixing things in his house or lawn or doing projects with his Arduino kit. Faiq also has a very strong interest in promoting STEM within the K-12 education curriculum.
Rick Meitzler, Architect
Rick has over 20 years working in EDA. He worked at Cadence Design Systems as a GUI Senior Member of Consulting Staff working on the SimVision and Indago Debug environments for logic simulation and formal verification products. He helped architecting the design and implementation of the SimVision GUI application, with extra focus on the source browser and waveform windows. Rick was instrumental in defining and implementing the walk-up connection features in SimVision which allowed the debugger to be run in a client-server mode. He was a key contributor to the overall usability of the SimVision product and worked to improve the tool over the years. For the Indago debug environment Rick was the designer and developer responsible for the waveform tool. Rick also worked to design and develop the methods used to access data from multiple engines for Indago to be used by the GUI and has a patent on this. Before this Rick started his career in the Navy for 6 years on submarines as an electronics technician. Rick worked at Stratus Computer for 11 years, working on Design and Verification Methodology and tools development, while attending classes at Northeastern University for Computer Science. In his spare time Rick enjoys living on the lake in New Hampshire, USA, boating and fishing.