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Dean Drako
President and CEO, IC Manage
Dean was the founder, President and CEO of Velosel Corporation prior to founding IC Manage. At Velosel, Dean closed two rounds of venture financing and built the product and company strategy. Dean was also the founder of Boldfish, a leading provider of enterprise messaging solutions that was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2003. Prior to Boldfish, Dean was founder, President and CEO of Design Acceleration, Inc (DAI), a maker of superior design analysis and verification tools. Cadence Design Systems acquired DAI in 1998. Dean has also been VP of Product Engineering at the 3DO Company and was instrumental in the development of the PowerPC architecture at Apple Computer. Dean received his BSEE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
Shiv Sikand
Vice President of Engineering, IC Manage
Shiv first started tackling the problems related to design data management at HAL Computer Systems during the SPARC
v9 development program. It was while working on the MIPS processor families at SGI that he designed, implemented and deployed cdsp4,
the Cadence-Perforce integration after extensive research. It was used extensively within MIPS and in the Advanced Graphics Division.
After cdsp4 was Open Sourced, he worked closely with a large group of design professionals in Silicon Valley to enhance his original
work. Prior to founding IC Manage, Shiv was at Matrix Semiconductor working on the world's first three-dimensional memory chips. He
did his post-graduate research on the design of asynchronous controllers at the University of Manchester, UK in collaboration with ARM
Ltd, Philips Research Labs in Holland and IMEC in Belgium.
Shiv received his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Christopher Seiwald
President and Chief Technology Officer, Perforce
Christopher Seiwald founded Perforce Software in 1995. Perforce, the "Fast Software Configuration Management System"
is a leading edge SCM solution with over 120,000 seats in active use at major companies throughout the world.
For more than 20 years, Christopher has developed software. He is a respected expert on SCM and is a regular contributor to SCM conferences and journals. Prior to founding Perforce Software, he was director of Network Development at Ingres Corporation responsible for developing database and development tools. In addition to his role as Net products architect, he spearheaded the company's SCM project, where he pioneered the 'developer-centric' SCM model, providing software engineers maximum control with minimum interference.
