Charlie is a 14-year veteran of the electronic design automation industry who has experience as a technologist, manager, entrepreneur, CEO, and senior executive.
Charlie joined Telos Venture Partners in 2004 after serving as Corporate Vice President of Integrated Circuit Solutions Business Development at Cadence Design Systems. At Cadence, Charlie held a variety of responsibilities including strategic marketing, business development, mergers & acquisitions, and foundry relationships.
Before joining Cadence, Charlie co-founded CadMOS Design Technology - a company that provided solutions to noise problems in ultra deep sub-micron processes. Its noise-analysis solutions were targeted at both digital and mixed-signal designers working in microprocessors, DRAMs, mixed-signal SoC, and ASICs. As CEO of CadMOS, Charlie raised venture capital from a variety of investors and managed the company through its acquisition by Cadence in 2001.
In 1990, Charlie joined Epic Design Technology as a senior architect and headed the flagship development of PowerMill and PathMill tools. When Synopsys acquired Epic in 1997, he became Vice President of R&D in the Epic Technology Group.
Charlie holds Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an MSEE and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a U.S. patent on piecewise linear event driven simulation.
Lorentz Solution, Inc.
State Micro Technology Corporation
CadMOS Design Technology, Inc. [Acquired by Cadence Design Systems]
