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Management Team
Novelics was founded in 2005 by three former principal engineers at several of the world's most successful semiconductor companies: Cyrus Afghahi, Ph.D., Esin Terzioglu, Ph.D. and Gil Winograd, Ph.D. The three co-founders possess more than 50 years of combined advanced memory design experience and share some 92 patents with 25 pending between them.
In their roles as scientists at several of the world's most successful semiconductor companies, the three Novelics' co-founders considered memory to be the most critical component of semiconductor design, yet their employer at the time was focused on other aspects of the design process. So the three decided to break away and create a company whose sole focus is to revolutionize embedded memory technology to achieve optimum power, density, speed, reliability and cost for semiconductor products in any application.
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Board Member and Founder
Novelics co-founder Esin Terzioglu serves as chief technology officer for the company, overseeing technical strategy, hiring and organization. Dr. Terzioglu is responsible for managing the engineering projects and innovations for the company?s embedded memory technologies.Prior to co-founding Novelics, Dr. Terzioglu held key technical positions at Broadcom Corporation from 1999 to 2005, progressing from staff scientist to principal scientist. He led the development of four generations of embedded SRAM memory technology, contributing to industry-leading achievements in memory area efficiency, power and speed.
Dr. Terzioglu has published 11 technical papers in the areas of fabrication processes, device physics and superconducting electronics, and holds more than 50 patents, mainly in circuit design and semiconductor memory technologies.
Dr. Terzioglu received his bachelor?s of science in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, his master?s of science and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University with a minor in computer science.
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Gil Winograd, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer and Founder
With a diverse background in software design, integrated circuit (IC) design, device physics and fabrication, Gil Winograd brings a wealth of experience to Novelics, where he serves as chief operating officer, responsible for software development, IP design and test engineering.
Prior to co-founding Novelics, Dr. Winograd was a principal scientist at Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for the design of leading-edge memories, high-speed full-custom circuits, and compiler and software automation processes for custom circuits. Dr. Winograd has previous experience in software engineering for various embedded engineering applications and developing test computers for data acquisition.
Dr. Winograd received his bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and his master�s of science in computer engineering from the University of Illinois. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University, specializing in lithography. He has published six technical papers and has more than 30 patents issued or pending.
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President and Chief Executive Officer
Farzad Zarrinfar brings more than 25 years of industry experience in global semiconductor and intellectual property (IP) companies to Novelics. He has established channel and strategic relationships with some of the world's leading semiconductor companies in the wired and wireless communication, storage and consumer markets.
Before joining Novelics in 2006, Mr. Zarrinfar was vice president of worldwide sales for strategic accounts at ARC International, where he secured strategic relationships with some of the largest fabless, integrated device manufacturers, and system companies on a global basis.
Previous positions include vice president of strategic marketing in America for SONY Semiconductor, as well as director of ASIC sales and marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, a marketing management position at LSI Logic, and engineering positions at Lockheed Martin and Texas Instruments.
Mr. Zarrinfar holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, a master's degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University and a master's in business administration, marketing from the University of Phoenix. Zarrinfar is a board member for GSPX, a world-leading digital signal processing (DSP) conference. farzad.zarrinfar@novelics.com.
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