Dr. Rahul Razdan, Chairman, Chief Technical Advisor and Co-founder

Sathyam has over 35+ years of experience in company and engineering management and in software development primarily in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies. He has headed companies, global engineering and marketing organizations in Fortune-500 (4) and in startups (8) companies to introduce innovative and successful products. He has led several startups such as Karthik Electronics, Atrenta, and ArchPro Design Automation to successful mergers and acquisitions. Sathyam's current roles are also as CTO and Board Member at Optima Design Automation, and as President, CEO, Co-Founder at SandFirst Inc. His prior roles were at Avery Design Systems, Atrenta, Synopsys, ArchPro, BlueSpec, AT&T Bell Labs, Karthik Electronics and Hindustan Teleprinters Ltd.His experience in EDA includes SoC Design, Low Power Verification, Electronic System Level Design and Verification, Logic Design Simulation/Formal Verification/Emulation, Fault Simulation and Integrated Circuit Layout Extraction, Design-rule Checking, and Compaction. He has organized and participated as Presenter and Panelist at several IEEE sponsored conferences. Sathyam has a mini-MBA from Santa Clara University, USA, MS (Computer Engineering) from Rutgers University, USA, and a B.Tech (Electronics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He enjoys playing cricket, table-tennis and billiards in his leisure.