Management Team

	Oskar Mencer, CEO and Founder Prior to founding Maxeler, Oskar was Member of Technical Staff at the Computing Sciences Center at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, leading the effort in "Stream Computing". He joined Bell Labs after receiving a PhD from Stanford University. Besides driving Maximum Performance Computing (MPC) at Maxeler, Oskar is Consulting Professor in Geophysics at Stanford University and he is also affiliated with the Computing Department at Imperial College London, having received two Best Paper Awards, an Imperial College Research Excellence Award in 2007 and a Special Award from Com.sult in 2012 for "revolutionising the world of computers".
	Michael J. Flynn, Chairman Michael J. Flynn, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, is best-known for the [SIMD, SISD, MISD, MIMD] classification and the first detailed discussion of super scalar design. He was founder and senior consultant to Palyn Associates, a leading computer design company; founder and Vice President of American Supercomputers; and a partner at Paragon Partners, a venture capital partnership. Prof. Flynn received the IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchley and Harry Goode Memorial Awards in 1992 and 1995, respectively.
	Oliver Pell, VP of Engineering Oliver Pell is VP of Engineering at Maxeler Technologies. His experience ranges from accelerating reverse time migration and Lattice-Boltzmann simulations to credit derivatives pricing. He is currently responsible for Maxeler's core technology development as well as the technical architecture and project management of acceleration efforts for clients including Tier 1 oil companies and investment banks. Oliver holds degrees in electronics and computing from Imperial College London and has co-authored various patents and scientific publications in top conferences and journals in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Geophysics.
	Glenn Rosenberg, VP of Operations Glenn has worked in the IT Industry for over 25 years. While holding many roles at IBM, he took the UK operation from fourth to first position as the most effective reutilisation group in EMEA with cost savings exceeding 60M annually. He has been extensively involved in Unix Server Technology and Training; developed European User guides for fulfillment systems; managed many large scale hardware implementations; and has worked as Facilities Manager for Deutsche Bank managing 15 Data Centres. His role before joining Maxeler was Operations Director for one of the top European Mid Range Computer specialists.
	James Spooner, VP of Acceleration James Spooner, VP of Acceleration at Maxeler Technologies, is responsible for project delivery with Maxeler's acceleration customers. Working predominantly in Oil & Gas and Finance, James and his team deliver solutions in seismic modelling, data processing, fixed-income analytics and trading platforms. Before Maxeler, James was a technologist at Endace, a network measurement company. He worked on technical product development and definition for 10Gbit+ networks and delivered solutions to customers across the US, Europe and Asia. James holds an honours degree in computing from The University of Waikato in New Zealand.
	Cliff Winckless, Business Development Cliff was Director of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for GenRad Inc., developing their HiLo logic simulator business from $1M to more than $20M over a four year period. In the same role at AMT he introduced the DAP 1024 processor SIMD parallel computer, focusing on FFT, video and image processing. He was managing director of Qudos, a Cambridge Science Park silicon rapid prototyping specialist and has acted as a strategic advisor to a number of high technology businesses.

Advisors

Howard Lee

Howard Lee has 20+ years of executive-level experience with large computer companies and emerging firms. He served as General Manager and VP of Product Development and Technology at Unisys, and Senior VP of the Apple Macintosh Division at Apple Computer Inc. As Senior VP of engineering at Sun Microsystems Lee brought SUN servers and workstations to Wall Street, fundamentally changing the way financial computing was executed. He co-founded NanoOpto, a nanotechnology startup in New Jersey. He has extensive experience in on-time engineering design and product delivery, building efficient engineering teams and managing international engineering collaborations and off-shore teams. Lee holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, an M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science, and an M.B.A.

Gerald Aigner

Gerald Aigner is currently involved in exploring renewable energy and wireless technologies. Previously, Gerald was an early employee at Google, responsible for Google's data-center infrastructure until 2003. In 2004, Gerald founded Google's Zurich Engineering office. Prior to Google, Gerald worked at Stanford University as part of the compiler infrastructure for software transformation and optimization efforts. He holds a M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) degree from the University of Linz in Austria.

Veljko Milutinovic

Dr. Veljko Milutinovic is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. During the 80's, for about a decade, he was on the faculty of Purdue University in the U.S.A, where he co-authored the architecture and design of the world's first DARPA GaAs microprocessor. During the 90's, after returning to Serbia, he took part in teaching and research at a number of major EU schools. He also delivered lectures at Stanford and MIT, and has about 20 books published by leading publishers in the U.S.A. Dr. Milutinovic is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of Academia Europaea.

Miron Abramovici

Miron Abramovici was co-founder and CTO of DAFCA, a startup that provides a reconfigurable infrastructure IP platform for System-on-Chip designs. Prior to DAFCA, Miron was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. He is a Fellow of IEEE and co-author of "Digital Systems Testing & Testable Design". He was principal investigator and project leader of a 3-year, $1.5M DARPA-sponsored project on adaptive computing systems.

Wayne Luk

Wayne Luk, Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London, founded the Computer Systems Section and the Custom Computing Research Group there. He is a Senior Advisor of Maxeler, and was Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Queen’s University Belfast. His research sponsors include Altera, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Sharp, Sony, and Xilinx, as well as the European Commission and research councils in UK and Hong Kong. He is a recipient of over 10 awards for his publications from various international conferences, and he also received a Research Excellence Award from Imperial College London. Prof. Luk is one of the foremost experts on domain specific embedded languages, and he is at the forefront of acceleration technology ideas. He is a fellow of the IEEE and BCS.

Dennis Allison

Dennis Allison has been a lecturer at Stanford University since 1976, running the EE380 seminar which covers the latest developments in Computer Systems. Dennis is a consultant for Addison Wesley publishers, and was a long-time member of the editorial board of Microprocessor Report. Dennis also serves as an expert in legal disputes involving Copyrights, Patents, and/or Trade Secrets. Over the years his interests and consulting practice have covered a wide domain that includes numerical mathematics, high performance computing, computer systems, geophysics and medical computing.

Martin Morf

Martin Morf's positions include Co-Director of the Computer Architecture and Arithmetic Group at the Computer Systems Lab at Stanford University, and Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of over 12 funded grants from industry and government agencies such as DARPA, AFOSR, NRO, NSF. His academic positions include Associate Professor at Stanford University, and Full Professor of Computer Science at Yale and ETH Zurich. His experience in industry includes several technology startups in cell phones and consumer electronics, Xerox Parc, RCA, Chevron Research, Molecular Systems, NASA Ames Research Center, and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Masahiro Fujita

Masahiro Fujita received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1985 and soon joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. From 1993 to 2000, he was assigned to Fujitsu's US research office where he directed the CAD research group. In March 2000, he joined the department of Electronic Engineering in the University of Tokyo as a professor. He has written over 100 technical papers on all aspects of logic design CAD and received several awards from major Japanese scientific societies on his works in formal verification and logic synthesis. His Ph.D. thesis, written in early 1980's, was on model checking.

Robert J. Odell, Esq.

Mr. Odell was a founding executive of Bigfoot Interactive, Inc., where he was General Counsel, Vice President of Business Affairs and Corporate Secretary. While at Bigfoot, he was responsible for all corporate legal activities, including financing (bank and venture capital), joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, licensing, employee benefits and compensation, intellectual property, privacy, litigation and real estate. Mr. Odell received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law and his B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University.

Tony Sanguinetti

Tony Sanguinetti is Head of Sales for T-Systems in Italy. Prior to T-Systems, Tony was Partner Account Executive at Cisco Systems, responsible for over $100M in annual revenue. Before Cisco he held senior management positions with Marconi Communications and Simoco International. Tony brings a strong focus and experience in sales and relationship management with a keen interest in bridging the gap between large corporations and startups. On the academic side, Tony is Affiliate Professor of Management Control at ESCP-EAP, the European School of Management, which has been ranked consistently among the top 10 business schools in Europe.

Paul H J Kelly

Paul Kelly, Professor at Imperial College London, received his PhD in Computer Science from London University. He leads the Software Performance Optimization research group at Imperial College London. His research sponsors include IBM, Microsoft, Arup, Codeplay and The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd, as well as the EPSRC and EU. He has chaired the Software Track at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), and has served on the Program Committees of the International Conference on Supercomputing, Compiler Construction, Euro-Par, and many other conferences and workshops. His joint work with David Pearce on field-sensitive intra- and inter-procedural pointer alias analysis was incorporated into the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC (release 4.1 and later).