Walden “Wally” C. Rhines is President and CEO of Cornami, Inc. Previously, he was CEO of Mentor Graphics for 25 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group, held numerous semiconductor executive management positions and was directly responsible for the creation and growth of the digital signal processing business which eventually comprised about 50% of TI’s total revenue.
Dr. Rhines has served on the board of directors for Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic, PTK Corp., SRC and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms). He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.
Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has recently honored Dr. Rhines, with its prestigious Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award for 2021.
Gordon “Gordie” Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early-stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process.
Early in his career, Campbell served as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager followed by taking over the company’s largest division. He departed Intel and founded his first company, SEEQ Technology, developing the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, he was the founder, chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies. There, he developed the fabless semiconductor model, and CHIPS and Technologies became the first fabless semiconductor company. In acknowledgement of this success, Campbell became known as the “Father of the Fabless Model”, which is currently over half of a nearly $500 billion semiconductor market. At CHIPS, Campbell was also instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that his early customers such as HP and Dell now dominate. As a result of his achievements at CHIPS, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”.
In his successful tech-based career, Campbell has also served on the board of directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm. He has founded, invested, and taken active roles with several highly successful start-ups, including 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate.
In honor of his repeated successes and his role in developing the fabless semiconductor model, the FSA named Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
Paul Master has over 30 years’ experience in high tech development and management in both start-up company environments and large corporations. His previous roles included positions as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Systems Engineering, VP of Architecture, and Director of Marketing among others. He has held positions in multiple startups, as well as larger companies such as The Boeing Company, ARGOSystems, & ACER America.
Master was on the team that shipped the industry’s first Digital Trans-multiplexer, the first 3D Seismic Array Correlator for the Geophysical Industry, commercialized the first Cascaded Integrated Comb Filters IC’s and the first Smart Antenna Cellular Base Stations. Master helped start and commercialize the field of Reconfigurable Computing. While at The Boeing Company, Master co-founded a new division; to bring reconfigurable computing-based telecommunications products to market.
Master has over 100 patents issued or pending, over 35 professional publications and 13 first pass ASIC successes. He has been the keynote speaker & conference speaker at a variety of technical conferences dealing with multi-core, reconfigurable computing, FPGA, software-defined radio and computer architectures. His specialties are low power architectures, multi-core processor systems, digital signal processing, multi-media, software-defined radio, wireless, massively parallel computing, & telecommunications.
Dr. Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in multicore processors and functional verification tools and methodologies. He was among the pioneers in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory). It was at these two companies that Dr. Furtek began a long-term mission to develop ground-breaking tools for full functional verification of digital systems.
During breaks in this effort, Dr. Furtek founded a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to Apple Computer, National Semiconductor, and IBM. Concurrent Logic was ultimately acquired by Atmel Corporation. He has also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms based on reconfigurable, multicore architectures unrivaled in price/performance and energy efficiency (Interval Research, QuickSilver Technology and Rapport, Inc.).
Dr. Furtek’s 30+ years of experience have provided the foundation for his most recent accomplishment: solving the multicore programming problem, which has bedeviled computer science for the past 50 years.
Dr. Furtek holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and doctorate in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has more than 30 issued U.S. patents.
Dr. Gentry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of cryptography and secure computation, enhancing Cornami’s mission to deliver real-time encrypted computing at scale.
Dr. Gentry is best known for his groundbreaking work in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), a quantum-secure technique that enables computations on encrypted data without exposing the underlying information.His innovations in this field have earned him numerous accolades, including:
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- The MacArthur Fellowship
- The Gödel Prize
- The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Fellowship in the International Association of Cryptologic Research
- The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
His career spans roles at prestigious institutions, including research scientist positions at the Algorand Foundation and IBM Research.
Prior to Cornami, Mr. Franz was Vice President of IoT Engineering for Elyven Inc. There his responsibilities included selecting appropriate technologies, defining the architecture, setting strategy, and leading development. Franz has over 26 years of experience as a software engineer and executive manager of development teams, all in the realm of delivering high quality audio/video experiences to consumers. Franz also has experience with internet and embedded software development, 3D and 2D graphics technologies, network architecture design, Internet content delivery, and project management.
Previously, Franz served as Vice President of Engineering at Yesvideo where he developed products and solutions for legacy home content. He also served as Vice President of Engineering at Vidomi where he helped pioneer the market for MPEG-4 / DivX by developing high performance DivX encode and playback software. Additionally, Franz served as Vice President of Technology for Segasoft, where he managed multiple game development teams and assisted in the specification and development of the Sega Saturn game console, Sega 32X game console, and the Sega Dreamcast game console.
Denoid Tucker comes to Cornami from his success at TierPoint where he was charged with TierPoint’s technical vision, the alignment of technology deployment and corporate strategy. He directed the integration of technology into all TierPoint data centers; and provided leadership and management of the company’s Product Engineering and Sales Operations functions.
Tucker joined TierPoint through its 2014 acquisition of Xand, where he also served as CTO. Prior to Xand, Tucker held key technical executive roles at RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, overseeing the design and implementation of the company’s award-winning cloud platform.
Other leadership roles include Vice President of Technology at StrataScale, where he expanded the company’s service portfolio to include cloud hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions; and Photronics where he engineered enterprise-class IT systems and a global infrastructure that powered photo-masking processes for Motorola, AMD and other semiconductor manufacturers.
Darlene Kindler has extensive experience in consumer electronics and semiconductor products. She has repeatedly focused on emerging technologies and products in multiple companies beginning with Nintendo, who was re-entering the then, nascent video game industry – 3dfx Interactive, a 3D graphics chip – CHIPs & Systems, an adaptive chip – AdscapeMedia, a dynamic in-game advertising company, and others.
In her role at Nintendo, she was one of the key people credited with establishing an international effort in Europe by building out the distribution network. Ms. Kindler went on to establish a wholly owned subsidiary in the U.S. for a Japanese video game company rolling out a number of products successfully.
In tune with her entrepreneurial spirit, Ms. Kindler took on the role of Vice President, Marketing/Third Party for a startup company called 3dfx Interactive. 3dfx was in the business of designing the first 3D graphics controller for the PC. She developed and supervised all aspects of the developer program as well as the additional responsibility for marketing, where she executed a branded retail program that resulted in 3dfx winning the Interactive Game Industry award for “Best Hardware Marketing”.
Ms. Kindler moved on to a new company in an emerging industry as VP Publishing for Adscape Media, a technology networking company focused on dynamic in-game advertising. Google acquired the company. SONY recruited her to establish a new multimedia advertising division for PlayStation and its online multimedia network. She drafted a new business plan, which was presented to the global operating committee in Japan for SONY and approved.
Most recently she worked at LeoNovus, a distributed cloud company.