Management Team

	Oskar Mencer, CEO and Founder Prior to founding Maxeler Technologies, Oskar Mencer was Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, leading the effort on "Computing with FPGAs" within the Computing Sciences Center. He joined Bell Labs after receiving a PhD from Stanford University. Besides his work with Maxeler, Oskar is also affiliated with the Computing Department at Imperial College London and holds a Consulting Professor position at the Geophysics department at Stanford University. Oskar's experience includes start-ups and more established companies in Silicon Valley such as DIGITAL, Rockwell and Hitachi (Tokyo).
	Mike 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.
	Howard Lee, Director 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.
	Oliver Pell, VP of Engineering Oliver Pell is VP of Engineering and Head of acceleration activities at Maxeler Technologies. His experience ranges from accelerating reverse time migration and Lattice-Boltzmann simulations to credit derivatives pricing. He is currently responsible for 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 several patents and scientific publications in top conferences 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.
	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

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.

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.

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 (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).