Leon Lauritsen is the CEO of Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management and engineering AI. He joined the company in 2022 through the acquisition of Minerva PLM, where he had been for over 20 years. While at Minerva, Leon led sales and marketing globally and expanded its geographic coverage… Read More
CEO Interview with Brendan Emery of iQ Sense
Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories.
Together with Co-Founder and CTO Madhu Jambunathan,… Read More
CEO Interview with David Reeder from Entegris
David Reeder became president and CEO of Entegris in 2025, with more than 20 years of semiconductor expertise across IDMs, fabless, foundry, systems, and component companies. Most recently, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer at Chewy where he successfully oversaw all financial functions. Prior to that, Dave was Chief Financial… Read More
CEO Interview with Joseph Krause of Radical AI
Joseph F. Krause is an American materials scientist, entrepreneur, and U.S. Army National Guard veteran. He is the cofounder and CEO of Radical AI, a New York deep-tech startup founded to accelerate the discovery of advanced materials.
Before Radical AI, Krause conducted nanomaterials research at Rice University, worked on… Read More
CEO Interview with Chuck McClish of Lattrex Inc.
Chuck McClish is the founder of Lattrex Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup building Kyttar, an asynchronous, clockless reconfigurable processor for real-time signal processing. He spent 15 years at Microchip Technology in chip design and verification, working across RTL design, UVM verification, synthesis, place-and-route,… Read More
Interview with Simon Davidmann, AI + EDA Researcher and Former CEO of Imperas
Simon Davidmann is a renowned EDA industry pioneer and serial technology entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in simulation and verification. After Synopsys acquired Imperas, which he founded in 2005, he was Synopsys Vice President responsible for Processor Modeling and Simulation. He left Synopsys in 2025 and… Read More
CEO Interview with Ohad Agami of Hiveware
Ohad Agami is the co-founder and CEO of Hiveware, a semiconductor verification company he started in Tel Aviv in 2023 with CTO Yaniv Pascal. He has a systems-focused engineering background with deep experience in semiconductor architectures and complex verification flows, built at the AI chip company Hailo and earlier in Israel’s… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Il Park of Primemas
Dr. Il Park is the Founder and CEO of Primemas Inc. Prior to founding Primemas, he was Vice President at SK hynix where he led memory solutions, design innovation, and CAE. Prior to that he was the head of the SOC architecture development and engineering team at Samsung Electronics. Earlier in his career, Il was at IBM T.J. Watson Research… Read More
CEO Interview with Mohit Gupta of TYLsemi
Mohit Gupta founded TYLsemi to build chiplet-based intelligent power and connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure—an area where custom silicon has long been underserved. TYLsemi exists to provide the foundational chiplet platform that enables tailored custom silicon solutions for the evolving needs of AI infrastructure.… Read More
CEO Interview with Madhulima Tewari of VerifAIX
Madhulima Tewari is the CEO and founder of VerifAIX. After two decades building EDA tools, taping out chips, and working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications, she teamed up with chip design and methodology leaders and university researchers to build an agentic AI system aimed at helping… Read More


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