Dave Orecchio, President and CEO
Dave has 24 years of semiconductor industry experience at four venture backed companies with a focus on semiconductors, ASIC and FPGA design and development. His leadership brought three of the four companies to successful exits for the investors. Prior to GateRocket, Dave held executive positions in marketing, sales and general management at LTX, Viewlogic Systems, Synopsys, Innoveda, Parametric Technologies and DAFCA.
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Chris Schalick, VP of Engineering and CTO
Chris, GateRocket’s founder, has 20 years of experience in modular systems design and behavioral system modeling for consumer and industrial equipment. He held senior engineering positions for raster imaging, data networking and semiconductor test equipment companies and was instrumental in delivering the products to market at Teradyne, Tenor Networks, Packet Engines and Cabletron Systems. Chris, an MIT alumnus, made the transition from ASIC design to FPGA design and experienced the lack of tools to verify and test these sophisticated designs, resulting in his passion for founding GateRocket to solve this industry problem.
Rick Sullivan, Director of Software Development
Rick has 28 years of EDA experience with a strong focus on simulation and verification research and development. He has developed multiple proprietary and commercial logic simulators from the ground up, and has played critical roles in the success of several startup companies. Rick has a BSEE from Tufts University, and an MSEE fro the University of Illinois. Prior to joining GateRocket, he held R&D positions at Cadence Design Systems, Vox2, Viewlogic Systems, Prime Computers, and Amdahl Corporation.
Jim Wagner, Director of Sales
Jim has 25 years of EDA industry sales experience both at large companies and EDA startups. His EDA experience has spanned semiconductor and PCB design and design verification, signal integrity, and physical verification areas. He has managed sales engagements with many of the top 100 electronics companies. Prior to GateRocket Jim held sales and sales management positions at GenRad, Cadence, Viewlogic/Innoveda, Mentor Graphics, Sigrity, and Valor Computerized Systems.