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Silistix Gets Silicon Valley Veteran Bruce Bourbon as New Board of Directors Chair
Silistix Board Restructured to Take Company to Next Level
| Source: Silistix
SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 5, 2007 -- Silistix, a provider of innovative software
and related circuit designs for on-chip communications solutions, today
announced that Bruce Bourbon has joined the company's Board of Directors as
the Board's new chairman. Other Silistix Board changes have also been made
to position Silistix for its future growth and technology advancement.
"We are very pleased to have Bruce join us as our new Board of Directors'
chairman," said David Fritz, Silistix CEO. "Bruce has been a guiding force
in several high-tech electronics companies for many years and is very well
respected in the industry. His broad experience in both technology
development and technology funding will be a great help to Silistix as we
continue to develop self-timed interconnect technology and enable silicon
IP that the semiconductor industry needs for implementation of complex
network-on-chip applications."
Mr. Bourbon is a veteran of the electronics industry with over 40 years
experience in semiconductors and electronic design automation (EDA). For
the last decade, Bruce has managed the venture capital investment portfolio
of Telos Venture Partners. Before founding Telos in 1996, Bruce served in
a dual management role with Toshiba Corporation. He was President and CEO
of Vertex Semiconductor Corporation (a subsidiary of Toshiba America
Electronic Components or TAEC), the only Toshiba semiconductor R&D
organization located outside of Japan. Under his guidance, Vertex developed
EDA software, ASIC technology, and applications specific standard products
(ASSPs). He was also Vice President of system IC marketing at TAEC where he
was responsible for Toshiba's ASIC business, standard logic families,
microprocessors and the silicon foundry business in the U.S. While with
Vertex, Bruce refocused the company on the high-end ASIC market and
engineered the company's acquisition by Toshiba.
His career includes several years as Executive Vice President of Corporate
Marketing at Cadence Design Systems, where he played a key role in growing
Cadence from a small startup to a major force in the EDA business. Prior
to Cadence, Bruce was with American Microsystems (AMI) for 10 years, where
he last served as Vice President of Marketing. At AMI, he was also Vice
President of the semi-custom products group, responsible for the AMI gate
array and silicon foundry businesses. Prior to his stint at AMI, Bruce
spent fourteen years working for a number of electronic systems companies
in various engineering and management positions.
Bruce served as Board Chairman and President of the Open Verilog
International (OVI) group for two years from its formation in October 1990.
He holds a BSEE from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and an
MSEE from the University of California at Los Angeles.
"Being able to work with an energetic and innovative company such as
Silistix is a real treat," said Mr. Bourbon. "David and his team have a
real handle on the timing, power dissipation, performance and
time-to-market challenges facing today's chip developers. Silistix knows
how important and disruptive self-timed chip interconnect technology is for
the creation of complex, yet cost-effective system-on-chip products."
Along with Mr. Bourbon becoming Board Chairman, other changes are also
being made to the Silistix Board of Directors. Steve Furber of Manchester
University, a Silistix founder and chairman of the Company's Technical
Advisory Committee, is stepping down as a Board director to focus on the
Technical Advisory Committee. In addition, Elaine Loukes of Partnerships
UK will be joining the Board as a director.
About Silistix
Silistix is a venture-funded spin-out of the University of Manchester, UK,
with backing from Intel Capital. The company's focus is on the development
and deployment of EDA tools for the design and synthesis of self-timed
CHAIN technology for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) communication. The
company has offices in Manchester, England, San Jose, California, and
Tokyo, Japan. For more information call 408-878-6098 or visit
www.silistix.com.