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7 June 2007
Company News
Virage Logic Strengthens Executive Management Team with Two Key Appointments
Virage Logic Corporation announced the strengthening of its management team with the appointment of Pete Rodriguez as chief marketing officer and Kamalesh Ruparel as vice president of silicon technology. These key appointments will further strengthen the company's ability to engage closely with the industry's leading foundry, integrated device manufacturer (IDM) and fabless companies on a more strategic level.
Reporting to Dan McCranie, Virage Logic's president and chief executive officer (CEO), Rodriguez will be responsible for driving the company's demand creation initiatives to address the global semiconductor IP market much more comprehensively. Ruparel will report to Virage Logic's vice president of research and development and chief technical officer, Alex Shubat, and will be responsible for the silicon validation of all Virage Logic products including test chip development, test chip characterization and silicon reports. He will also be responsible for driving continuous cycles of improvement to help ensure customer success, including quick ramp to volume at the advanced process nodes.
About Pete Rodriguez
Rodriguez brings more than 23 years of semiconductor industry engineering, sales and senior management experience to Virage Logic. He currently serves as a director for EXAR and previously served as president, CEO and a director of Xpedion Design Systems, Inc., a private, venture capital-backed company focused on electronic design automation solutions for use in designing wireless communication circuits and systems which was acquired by Agilent Technologies. Prior to joining Xpedion, Rodriguez held senior management positions in sales and marketing at Escalade Corporation, a provider of software for chip design, until its acquisition by Mentor Graphics. He also held senior sales management positions at LSI Logic, as well as product management and process engineering positions at Aerojet Electronics, Teledyne Microwave, and Siliconix. Rodriguez holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
About Kamalesh Ruparel
Ruparel brings more than 22 years of semi-custom integrated circuit (IC) ecosystem experience to Virage Logic . He joins the company from Anchor Bay Technologies (also known as DVDO, Inc.), where he served as vice president of engineering responsible for system and ASIC engineering. Previously he spent approximately ten years at Cisco Systems, most recently serving as director of engineering for the ISBU ASIC-COT Engineering in the Datacenter, Security & Switching Technology Group. Ruparel's experience also includes management positions at Apple Computer and senior engineering positions at Vertex Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments. Ruparel holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Computer Science from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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